U.S. Assistant Surgeon General to Speak at UB Seminar on Women’s Mental Health Issues

By Lois Baker

Release Date: March 30, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A day-long seminar on mental health issues affecting women, featuring Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, M.D., U.S. assistant surgeon general, as keynote speaker, will be held on April 23 sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The seminar will be held in the Radisson Hotel and Suites Buffalo, 4243 Genesee St., Cheektowaga.

Registration for this special grand rounds program is $65 for the general public and $60 for faculty and staff of UB and its affiliated institutions. Medical students and residents may attend free of charge.

Susan McLeer, M.D., chair of the UB Department of Psychiatry, will open the program at 8:30 a. m., following a continental breakfast. The lecture schedule is:

• 8:45 a.m.-- "Broken Hearts: Women, Depression and Ischemic Heart Disease," by Donna Stewart, M.D., professor of psychiatry and OB/Gyn at the University of Toronto

• 10:20 a.m. -- "What Makes Granny Run," by Leslie Hartley Lise, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Hawaii

• 1 p.m. -- "Early Detection and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease," by Gary Small, M.D., professor of psychiatry at UCLA

• 2:10 p.m. "Women's Health: Present and Future," by Rear Adm. Susan Blumenthal, M.D., MPA.

A 3:30 p.m. roundtable discussion moderated by Marion Z. Goldstein, M.D., UB associate professor of psychiatry, will wrap up the session.

The seminar aims to help attendees understand the gender differences in depression following myocardial infarction or unstable angina, learn about the connection between physical and emotional stressors throughout a woman's lifetime, learn about the effects of endocrine changes on the brain, recognize early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and determine appropriate therapy and assess current scientific and health-care policy implications of studies on women.