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8/22/2022 - 8/22/2022
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST

Speaker:  Debra Kahn, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, where she specializes in Consult-liaison psychiatry.  She works on the inpatient medical and surgical wards, teaching students and residents how to conduct thorough assessments of patients with overlapping psychiatric and medical disease.  Dr. Kahn loves working in  interdisciplinary settings and frequently collaborates with Speech therapists in the assessment of patients with traumatic brain injuries and stroke. She also has worked extensively with kidney transplant patients, helping to optimize their outcomes by achieving pre-surgical psychiatric stability.  Personally, she is the mother of 3 kids and enjoys trail running and playing Words with Friends.
Brief course description: This course includes an overview of psychiatric illnesses commonly seen in SLP patients and a review of cognitive issues typically associated with psychiatric disease.   I will review key features that help differentiate cognitive impairment due to medical illness from cognitive issues due to psychiatric illness.  We will have an interactive discussion of hospitalized patients with comorbid psychiatric disease and cognitive impairment.  Treatments for psychiatric disease and associated cognitive side effects will also be discussed.
Learner objectives:

1. identify common psychiatric disorders and associated cognitive features
2. recognize factors that help differentiate confusion due to acute medical illness from cognitive impairment from psychiatric disease
3. gain familiarity with cognitive side effects of psychiatric medications
4. apply knowledge of psychiatric illness and associated cognitive features to clinical cases presented

2 CE's  Free to current members                                          Level of instruction:  Intermediate

6:30 - 8:30 pm