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The 94th Annual Meeting
March 4-6, 2004

MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY OVER THE COURSE OF LIFE

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Crowne Plaza Hotel Times Square Manhattan

New York, NY

Scientific Program

Comorbidity of mental and chronic physical health conditions is common but poorly understood. There is overlap of physical and mental syndromes at any point in time, implying that one syndrome causes the other, or that they share a common cause; but co-occurrence observed at one point in time provides little evidence about risk factors, social and biological mediators, and causal processes. This symposium presents a review of the comorbidity of mental and physical syndromes in an epidemiologic and life course context.

The symposium is designed for researchers in clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic settings. By the end of the symposium, participants should:

  • Appreciate the value of prospective population-based research and the life course approach to health
  • Be aware of the dominant risk factors for co-occurrence of major mental and physical disorders
  • Become acquainted with important population-based cohort studies which focus on mental and physical health
  • Understand major social and physiological systems that mediate comorbidity of mental and physical illnesses

Thursday, March 4, 2004
8:30 -- 9:15 Registration
9:15 -- 9:45 Welcome, Introduction and Presentation of Robins-Guze Award
William W. Eaton, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
SESSION 1 Epidemiology
Chair: Ron Kessler, PhD, Harvard University
9:45 -- 10:15 Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology
George Davey Smith, MD, University of Bristol
10:15 -- 10:25 Discussion
10:25 -- 10:55 Childhood and Adolescent Development: Great Smoky Mountains Study
Elizabeth J. Costello, PhD, Duke University
10:55 -- 11:05 Discussion
11:05 -- 11:25 Coffee Break
11:25 -- 11:55 Presidential Lecture: The Consequences of Psychopathology in Adults: Baltimore ECA Followup
William W. Eaton, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
11:55 -- 12:05 Discussion
12:05 -- 12:25 Discussant and General Discussion
12:25 -- 12:30 Presentation of Service Award to:

Andy Skodol, MD
12:30 -- 2:00 LUNCH
SESSION 2 Risk Factors
Chair: Cathy Widom, PhD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
2:00 -- 2:30 Genetic and Epidemiologic Phenotype Hunting: Panic and Interstitial Cystitis as a Potential Syndrome
Myrna M. Weissman, PhD, Columbia University
2:30 -- 2:40 Discussion
2:40 -- 3:10 Pregnancy and Birth Experience
Ezra Susser, MD, Columbia University
3:10 -- 3:20 Discussion
3:20 -- 3:40 Coffee Break
3:40 -- 4:10 Socioeconomic Adversity: Effects on Medical and Psychiatric Disorders
Bruce Link, PhD, Columbia University
4:10 -- 4:20 Discussion
4:20 -- 4:40 Discussant and General Discussion
5:30 -- 7:30 Poster reception
Friday March 5, 2004
SESSION 3 Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Chair: Dan Blazer, MD Duke University
9:00 -- 9:30 Mood Disorders and the Heart
Jack M. Gorman, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
9:30 -- 9:40 Discussion
9:40 -- 10:10 Osteoporosis and other medical consequences of major depression
Giovanni Cizza, MD, National Institute of Mental Health
10:10 -- 10:20 Discussion
10:20 -- 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 -- 10:45 Presentation of Joseph Zubin Award to:

George S. Alexopoulos, MD
10:45 -- 11:15 Aging and Late life Depression
George S. Alexopoulos, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
11:15 -- 11:25 Discussion
11:25 -- 11:45 Discussant and General Discussion
11:45 -- 12:15 APPA Business Meeting (Members Only)
12:15 -- 2:30 LUNCH
SESSION 4 Emotions and Health
Chair: Joel Paris, MD, McGill University
2:30 -- 3:00 Stress and Allostasis over the Course of Life
Teresa Seeman, PhD, University of California-Los Angeles
3:00 -- 3:10 Discussion
3:10 -- 3:40 Emotions, Personality, and Health
Laura Kubzansky PhD, Harvard University
3:40 -- 3:50 Discussion
3:50 -- 4:10 Coffee Break
4:10 -- 4:15 Presentation of Paul Hoch Award to:

Simon Wessely, MD
4:15 -- 4:45 Multiple Causes for Multiple Symptoms: Gulf War and Chronic Fatigue
Simon Wessely, MD, Institute of Psychiatry
4:45 -- 4:55 Discussion
4:55 -- 5:15 Discussant and General Discussion
Saturday, March 6, 2004
SESSION 5 Schizophrenia
Chair: Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, University of North Carolina
9:00 -- 9:30 Use of National Medical Databases to Study Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidity
Preben Bo Mortensen, MD, Aarhus University
9:30 -- 9:40 Discussion
9:40 -- 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 -- 10:30 Infectious and Immune Explanations for Schizophrenia
Norbert Müller, MD, University of Munich
10:30 -- 10:40 Discussion
10:40 -- 11:10 Schizophrenia, Metabolic Disturbance, and Cardiovascular Risk
John Newcomer, MD, Washington University in St. Louis
11:10 -- 11:20 Discussion
11:20 -- 11:40 Discussant and General Discussion
Adjourn

This page was prepared by Gary Heiman, Ph.D. of Columbia University.

Revised March 11,2004