Ryan Smith – Recognizing and Treating the Bipolar Disorders and Related Masquerading Conditions

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In this lecture, you will learn how to suspect, diagnose and treat patients.   You will also learn what differentiates this from major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders. You will learn when it is appropriate that the patient see specialty services.

Learning Objectives:

1.   State the importance of considering and ruling out secondary presentations of psychiatric pathology before considering primary presentation of psychiatric pathology.
2.   Understand the differential diagnosis of -manic-like behavior arising out of both medical and drug-related causes (secondary psychiatric pathologies) as well as those primary psychiatric pathologies which can present with -manic-like   behavior.
3.   Understand the differential diagnosis of -manic-like behavior arising out of both medical and drug-related causes (secondary psychiatric pathologies) as well as those primary psychiatric pathologies which can present with -manic-like   behavior.
4.   Understand how to rule-in and rule-out key disorders and presentation of -manic-like behavior.
5.   Understand broad treatment strategies to control manic-like behavior, be it arising from a primary or a secondary psychiatric cause.
6.   Differentiate the various types of bipolar disorders, and relate this to the presentation of borderline personality disorder.

Dr. Smith is an Associate Professor and Chief of Psychiatry at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Founding Psychiatry Residency Program Director at Portsmouth Regional Hospital’s new GME program affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Smith is a board certified Psychiatrist by the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry.

Dr. Smith worked as the sole psychiatrist in Washington County, Maine, for five years before pursuing other opportunities. He is currently clinically active at the State Psychiatric Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire. He serves on the Maine Board of Osteopathic Licensure and is the Clerkship Director of Psychiatry for the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Smith has spoken nationally and at several regional educational programs in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.

Dr. Smith discloses that he received a speaker fee for being a promotional speaker for Otsuka-Lundbeck, Incorporated.