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8:00am–8:30am        Registration & Breakfast


8:30am–8:45am        Introduction
                              

8:45am–10:15am    
Implications of Process Addictions: Shared Causal Mechanisms
Identify clinical features, risk factors, similarities and differences in process-type addictions
Mark Gold, MD
Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Distinguished Professor, Dizney Eminent Scholar


10:15am–10:30am     Break, Networking abnd Exhibits


10:30am–12:00pm     KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Maneuvering the Changing Landscape of Behavioral Health Care
Understand benefits of recovery oriented systems of care approach toward treatment of co-occurring
disorders
H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, CAS, FASAM
Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)


12:00pm–1:00 pm      Lunch, Networking and Exhibits


1:00pm–2:30 pm      
The Many Faces of the Reward Deficiency Syndrome:
The Divine Banquet of the Brain
Define/explain neurobiology of reward deficiency syndrome and how substance and process addictions share common neurobiological underpinnings
Anand Mehendale, MD
Director, Phoenix Neurobiology Research Unit, Phoenix Medical Associates; Chief Medical Officer, The Ranch at Clear Springs;
Executive Medical Director, Phoenix Monitoring System
Kerrville, TX

2:30pm–2:45pm         Break, Networking and Exhibits


2:45pm–4:15 pm
Addiction is an Addiction is an Addiction
Identify signs symptoms and similarities of addictive or compulsive behaviors and recognize
common family dynamics around process addictions
Abi Williams, PhD, LCSW, CSAT, CMAT
Director of Clinical Services, The Arbor, Georgetown, TX      

4:15pm–4:30 pm        Closing and distribution of CEU/CME
                             

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