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RELEASE: April 13, 2016
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PRESENTER: Richard C. Shelton, M.D.
TITLE:  The Connection Between Depression, Inflammation and Obesity:  Implications for Treatment

Dr. Shelton attended medical school at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He, then, travelled to Boston, MA, where he became a resident and, then, Chief Resident at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (now the Longwood Program), a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School. After residency, he was a research fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health Intramural Program in Washington, D.C. before entering the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 1985. There he rose through the ranks to become the James G. Blakemore Research Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Psychiatry. He also became a professor in the Departments of Psychology and Pharmacology. Dr. Shelton joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in February, 2012 as the Charles Byron Ireland Professor, Vice Chair for Research, and head of a newly formed Mood Disorders Research Center. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Improve recognition and intervention for obesity in depressed patients.
  • Increase monitoring of body weight, particularly visceral (intra-abdominal) fat mass and insulin levels in patients with mood disorders (over time).
  • Incorporate a focus on obesity as an end point of the treatment of depression.       

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Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:Dr. Shelton has a financial relationship with the following companies:  Alkermes, Inc., Allergan (Forest Pharmaceuticals), Assurex Health, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Cerecor, Inc., Clintara, LLC, Genomind, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Medtronic, Inc., MSI methylation Sciences, Inc., Naurex, Inc., Nestle Health (Pamlab, Inc.), Novartis, Inc., Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Inc., Ridge Diagnostics, Shire Plc, Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Consultant and Grant/Research Support)

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Brian Palmer, M.D., Michael Bostwick, M.D., Karen Grothe, Ph.D., Lois Krahn, M.D., Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., Larissa Loukianova, M.D., Mary Machulda, M.D., Patricia Maus, M.D., Amber Pearson, Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D.

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:

Dr. Shelton: Nestle Health - Deplin (l-methylfolate)

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Presenter: 
Richard Shelton, MD
Where did the idea for the course originate?: 
Minnesota
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Where did the idea for the course originate?: 
Minnesota