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Keeping the Big Picture in Mind: The life long implications of our food and early environment

Presentation Date(s): 30/07/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Keeping the Big Picture in Mind: The life long implications of our food and early environment
by Professor Susan Prescott

Biography

Professor Susan Prescott is a Professor of Paediatrics in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at University of Western Australia. She is also a Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist at the Perth Children’s Hospital, and Founding Director of the ORIGINS Project at the Telethon KIDS Institute.

Her interests and expertise are focused around early life risk factors for inflammation as an antecedent (and preventive target) for a broad range of noncommunicable diseases (NCD), with a particular interest in early onset NCDs such as allergic disease. She works at the highest international level of her field, and is a former Director of the World Allergy Organisation.

Prof Prescott is founding President of the multidisciplinary ‘DOHaD’ Society in Australia and New Zealand (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease). She also founded and continues to chair the International Inflammation Network (‘in-FLAME’), an interdisciplinary research network with over 200 members from more than 50 partner institutions.

She has over 250 scientific publications, and is also author of several books: The Allergy Epidemic – a Mystery of Modern Life, The Calling, and Origins – Early Life Solutions to the Modern Health Crisis, and most recently The Secret Life of Your Microbiome: Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Can we prevent and treat depression by improving diet?

Presentation Date(s): 30/07/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Can we prevent and treat depression by improving diet?
by Professor Felice Jacka

Biography

Professor Jacka is founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR). She is an NHMRC Career Development Fellow at Deakin University in Australia, within the School of Medicine, where she is Director of the Food and Mood Centre. She also holds Honorary Principal Research Fellow appointments at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Centre; and the Black Dog Institute in NSW. Professor Jacka has pioneered a highly innovative program of research that examines how individuals’ diets, and other lifestyle behaviours, interact with the risk for mental health problems. Her current work focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health and mental and brain health. This research is being carried out with the ultimate goal of developing an evidence-based public health message for the primary prevention of the common mental disorders. She has published extensively in high-impact journals in the mental health field including the American Journal of Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, BMC Medicine, Schizophrenia Bulletin and Lancet Psychiatry.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Gut Feelings: The microbiota as a key regulator of brain and behaviour across the lifespan

Presentation Date(s): 31/07/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Gut Feelings: The microbiota as a key regulator of brain and behaviour across the lifespan
by Professor John F. Cryan

Biography

Professor John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork and serves on the University’s Governing Body. He is also a Principal Investigator in the APC Microbiome Institute. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He was a visiting fellow at the Dept Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia, which was followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. He spent four years at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel Switzerland, as a LabHead, Behavioural Pharmacology prior to joining UCC in 2005.

Prof. Cryan’s current research is focused on understanding the interaction between brain, gut & microbiome and how it applies to stress, psychiatric and immune-related disorders at key time-windows across the lifespan. Prof. Cryan has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a Senior Editor of Neuropharmacology and of Nutritional Neuroscience and an Editor of British Journal of Pharmacology. He is on the editorial board of a further 15 journals. He has edited three books including Microbial Endocrinology: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Health and Disease (Springer Press, 2014). He has received numerous awards including UCC Researcher of the Year in 2012; the University of Utrecht Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research in 2013 and being named on the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher list in 2014. He was a TEDMED speaker in Washington in 2014 and spoke at WIRED Health in London in 2015. He is President-elect of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring materialt for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Pregnancy, Nutrition, and Implications for Women with Psychiatric Disorders

Presentation Date(s): 31/07/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Pregnancy, Nutrition, and Implications for Women with Psychiatric Disorders
by Marlene P. Freeman, M.D.

Biography

Marlene P. Freeman, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. She is the Associate Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Medical Director of the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI).

Dr. Freeman completed medical school at Northwestern University Medical School. She completed residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program and a research fellowship in the Biological Psychiatry Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her research and clinical expertise is in the areas of mood disorders and women’s mental health.

She is Vice Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. She was a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and chaired the APA Task Force on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and was a member of the APA’s workgroup on Major Depressive Disorder treatment guidelines. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) and is a Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). She recently served as a Member of the Veterans Administration Reproductive Mental Health Steering Committee.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Oxidative and inflammatory biomarkers as targets for novel nutraceutical therapies

Presentation Date(s): 31/7/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Oxidative and inflammatory biomarkers as targets for novel nutraceutical therapies
by Professor Michael Berk

Biography

Professor Michael Berk is currently a NHMRC Senior Principal research Fellow, and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon Health, where he heads the IMPACT Strategic Research Centre. He also is an Honorary Professorial Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health and Orygen Youth Health at Melbourne University, as well as in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He is past president of the International Society for Bipolar disorders and the Australasian Society or Bipolar and Depressive Disorders. He is an ISI highly cited researcher who has published over 700 papers predominantly in mood disorders. His major interests are in the discovery and implementation of novel therapies, and risk factors and prevention of psychiatric disorders. He is the recipient of a number of grants, including National Institutes of Health (US), Simon Autism Foundation, NHMRC CRE and project grants, Beyondblue, Stanley Medical Research Institute awards and is a lead investigator in a Collaborative Research Centre.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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The role of nutrition in childhood neurodevelopmental disorders - This presentation is not CME accredited

Presentation Date(s): 01/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Consumption of added sugars and sweetened drinks, quality of carbohydrates and risk of depression

Presentation Date(s): 01/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Consumption of added sugars and sweetened drinks, quality of carbohydrates and risk of depression
by Professor Almudena Sánchez-Villegas

Biography

Professor Almudena Sánchez-Villegas is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria since 2016. Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health during the academic year 2005-2006. She is author of more than 80 book chapters and co-editor of several text books of Public Health (Elsevier 2013) and Biostatistics (Elsevier 2014). She has authored more than 130 scientific articles, editorials or letters in international peer-reviewed journals such as World Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Diabetes Care or BMC Medicine (h index web of Science=34; h index Google Scholar=44, January 2017). Coordinator and principal investigator of two Spanish Projects (2005/2007; 2009/2012) sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Health (FIS PI042241, FIS PI080819) to assess the role of diet and physical activity on mental disorders and quality of life. In 2016, she received a new grant (FIS PI16/01274) for the triennium 2017/2019 to carry out a clinical trial to assess the role of the adherence to the Mediterranean diet supplemented with tree nuts and extra virgin olive oil in the risk of recurrence of depression. She has also participated in other Spanish or European projects related to nutritional epidemiology such as the PREDIMED clinical trial analysing the effect of Mediterranean diet on cardiovascular risk or the EURRECA project (European RECommendations Aligned Harmonising nutrient recommendations across Europe) sponsored by the European Union (FP6-0361196-2). Now part of CIBERobn (Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Obesity Physiopathology and Nutrition network) collaborating within the PREDIMED-PLUS trial.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Nutraceuticals: Current State of the Art and Science for Mental Health

Presentation Date(s): 01/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Nutraceuticals: Current State of the Art and Science for Mental Health
by Professor Jerome Sarris

Biography

Professor Jerome Sarris is Professor of Integrative Mental Health and Deputy Director of the NICM integrative medicine research institute at Western Sydney University. He holds an NHMRC Clinical Research Fellowship, in addition to an honorary position at the University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry as a Principal Research Fellow. Jerome moved from clinical practice as a Naturopath, Nutritionist, and Acupuncturist to academic work, and completed a doctorate at the field of psychiatry. He has a particular interest in anxiety and mood disorder research pertaining to integrative medicine, nutraceutical psychopharmacology and psychotropic plant medicines, and lifestyle medicine. His research also utilizes genomic technology to examine the pharmacogenomics of individual responses to nutraceuticals in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Professor Sarris has over 120 publications and has published in many eminent journals in the field including The American Journal of Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, and World Psychiatry. He is currently involved in over a dozen clinical trials in the area of mental health, being Chief Investigator A on 3 multicentre NHMRC Project Grants in the field. Jerome is a founding Vice Chair of The International Network of Integrative Mental Health & an Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Nutritional Psychiatry Research.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Nutritional Psychiatry: Where to Next

Presentation Date(s): 01/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Nutritional Psychiatry: Where to Next
by Professor Felice Jacka

Biography

Professor Jacka is founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR). She is an NHMRC Career Development Fellow at Deakin University in Australia, within the School of Medicine, where she is Director of the Food and Mood Centre. She also holds Honorary Principal Research Fellow appointments at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Centre; and the Black Dog Institute in NSW. Professor Jacka has pioneered a highly innovative program of research that examines how individuals’ diets, and other lifestyle behaviours, interact with the risk for mental health problems. Her current work focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health and mental and brain health. This research is being carried out with the ultimate goal of developing an evidence-based public health message for the primary prevention of the common mental disorders. She has published extensively in high-impact journals in the mental health field including the American Journal of Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, BMC Medicine, Schizophrenia Bulletin and Lancet Psychiatry.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Nutrition Above the Neck: Can Industrialized Food Oils be a Mental Health Solution?

Presentation Date(s): 01/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Nutrition Above the Neck: Can Industrialized Food Oils be a Mental Health Solution?
by CAPT Joseph R. Hibbeln, M.D

Biography

CAPT Joseph R. Hibbeln, M.D is the Acting Chief, Section of Nutritional Neurosciences, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism NIH, Bethesda Maryland.

CAPT Hibbeln, M.D. is internationally recognized for originating the field of omega-3 fatty acids in depression and impulsive disorders. The 20th century dramatically changed the dietary oils that comprise the brain creating deficiencies in marine long chain omega-3 fatty acids and excesses in vegetable oil omega-6 fatty acids. Under his direction, the Section on Nutritional Neurosciences examines the impact these deficiencies and excesses on adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes and risks for major depression, suicide, addictive and pain disorders. SNN comprehensively integrates data from epidemiological, nutrigenomic, basic and clinical science perspectives to best formulate actionable interventions that will improve public health. SNN seeks to determine if resuming historically normal intakes of these essential fats might substantially reduce emotional distress in modern societies, with a specific focus on Military and Veteran mental health.
CAPT Hibbeln’s work establishing the net nutritional benefits of fish consumption over risks of trace mercury exposure in pregnancy (Lancet 2007) has changed in international policy regarding dietary advice: (World Health Organization 2010, US Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 and 2015, FDA-Net Effects Document/draft advice, 2014, European Food Standards Agency, 2014). His team recovered and published missing data from two of the largest RCTs ever conducted for omega-6 fats in cardiovascular disease (2013, 2016). Both studies demonstrated increased cardiovascular mortality resulting from lower serum cholesterol with linoleic acid from vegetable oil sources.

CAPT Hibbeln is the recipient of numerous awards including the Wilhelm Normann Metal in 2012. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has received more than 35 grants or awards for research funding and continuous funding since 1998 in the Intramural Program of NIAAA. He is board certified physician in psychiatry, serves in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) and is an Eagle Scout, BSA.

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Nutraceuticals and Broad Spectrum Micronutrients Workshop

Presentation Date(s): 02/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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Nutraceuticals and Broad Spectrum Micronutrients Workshop
by Dr David Mischoulon M.D., PhD – Prof Jerome Sarris – Prof Julia Rucklidge

Biography

Dr. David Mischoulon graduated in 1994 from the combined MD-PhD program at Boston University School of Medicine. He earned a PhD in biochemistry during this time, and authored several original papers in the area of liver biochemistry. He completed an internship in General Medicine at Carney Hospital in 1995. He then entered the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, from which he graduated in 1998, after serving as Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology. Dr. Mischoulon is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Research and Alternative Remedy Studies at the Depression Clinical and Research Program of the MGH.

Dr. Mischoulon’s research has focused on various areas of depression, including complementary and alternative medicine. He is also an accredited medical acupuncturist and has carried out studies of acupuncture as a treatment for depression. He has received two NARSAD Young Investigator awards, a K-23 award from NCCAM, an R01 grant from the NIH to study omega-3 fatty acids for depression, and recently a UG3 from NCCIH to continue his work on omega-3 fatty acids for depression. Dr. Mischoulon has mentored many research fellows and junior faculty, including investigators from Europe, Asia, and Australia, who have gone on to obtain independent funding as principal investigators.

Professor Jerome Sarris is Professor of Integrative Mental Health and Deputy Director of the NICM integrative medicine research institute at Western Sydney University. He holds an NHMRC Clinical Research Fellowship, in addition to an honorary position at the University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry as a Principal Research Fellow. Jerome moved from clinical practice as a Naturopath, Nutritionist, and Acupuncturist to academic work, and completed a doctorate at the field of psychiatry. He has a particular interest in anxiety and mood disorder research pertaining to integrative medicine, nutraceutical psychopharmacology and psychotropic plant medicines, and lifestyle medicine. His research also utilises genomic technology to examine the pharmacogenomics of individual responses to nutraceuticals in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Professor Sarris has over 120 publications and has published in many eminent journals in the field including The American Journal of Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, and World Psychiatry. He is currently involved in over a dozen clinical trials in the area of mental health, being Chief Investigator A on 3 multicentre NHMRC Project Grants in the field. Jerome is a founding Vice Chair of The International Network of Integrative Mental Health & an Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Nutritional Psychiatry Research.

Prof Julia Rucklidge is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and Director of the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Group

Julia investigates the role of micronutrients in the expression and treatment of psychiatric symptoms, including ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and anxiety, stress and PTSD associated with the Canterbury earthquakes

PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring material for this educational activity for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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How To Best Approach Dietetics in Those with Mental Disorders Workshop - This presentation is not CME accredited

Presentation Date(s): 02/08/2017
Number of Videos: 1

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How To Best Approach Dietetics in Those with Mental Disorders Workshop
by Scott Teasdale

Biography

Scott (BNutrDiet; BAppSci(Nutr&Food)), is a Senior Mental Health Dietitian within the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Australia and a PhD Candidate within the School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Australia. Scott was the original dietitian for the Keeping the Body In Mind (KBIM) program, an innovative multidisciplinary lifestyle program aimed at closing the 15-year mortality gap in people with mental illness. Scott is also a committee member and holds the research role within the Dietitians Association of Australia's Mental Health Interest Group. The combination of a clinical appointment and an interest in research has meant that Scott has been productive in translational research publishing in journals including the British Journal of Psychiatry. Scott's research focusses on dietary assessment methods, dietary intake and dietary interventions in severe mental illness. Scott's future goals are to gain a post doctoral position to continue investigating this greatly under-researched area.

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