1st Speaker
Of Cinder, Sea & Shotgun:  Literary Leitmotifs in a Suicide Ensued

Kristen A. Schmidt, M.D.

Introduction
Dr. Kristen Schmidt, M.D., obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in English literature, with an emphasis on psychoanalytic interpretation of the classics. She then obtained a Master’s Degree in Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Chicago prior to attending medical school at UIC in Peoria, Illinois. Currently, she matriculates at Mayo Clinic as a fourth year psychiatry resident and will be continuing her education next year at UCLA as an addictions fellow.

Learning Objectives

1. Examine the role of literary themes in suicide completion for Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway.
2. Elucidate the association between art and psychiatric illness.
3. Discuss expanding the existing diagnostic classification and management for such artists.

2nd Speaker
Somatic Symptom Problems 2017

Jeffrey P. Staab, M.D.

Introduction
Jeffrey P. Staab, MD, MS is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.  He and his team in the Behavioral Medicine Program evaluate and treat more than 1800 patients each year who have functional and somatic symptom disorders or co-existing medical and psychiatric conditions.  His research covers a range of problems at the interface of psychiatry and medicine, including functional otologic and neurologic disorders and illness anxiety.  He is best known for investigations of the differential diagnosis and treatment of chronic dizziness. He led the Mayo Clinic site for the DSM-5 Field Trial of Somatic Symptom Disorders.  Dr. Staab completed undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at Northwestern University, graduate work in bioengineering at Carnegie-Mellon University, and medical education at the University of Pittsburgh.  His graduate medical education included an internship in internal medicine and residency in psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center (now Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) in Bethesda, MD, followed by a fellowship in traumatic stress disorders.  He previously served on the faculties of the University of Florida and University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Staab is author or co-author of 120 scientific articles, reviews and abstracts.  He serves on the editorial boards of five scientific journals in the fields of psychosomatic medicine and otorhinolaryngology.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe conceptual challenges and changs regarding somatic symptoms problems.
2. Compare and contrast medical and psychiatric lumpers and splitters.

 
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Industry Acknowledgment (if applicable): None.

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Disclosure Summary
As a provider accredited by ACCME, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development), must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities.   Course Director(s), Planning Committee Members, Faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity.  Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place.  Faculty also will disclose any off label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentation.  Disclosure of this information will be published in course materials so those participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentation.

Listed below are individuals with control of the content of this program who have disclosed…

Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry: 
None

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, Ph.D., Patricia Maus, M.D., Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D., Charlene Nelson

Speakers:  Kristen Schmidt, M.D. and Jeffrey Staab, M.D.

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:
Jeffrey P. Staab, M.D.:  Antidepressants of multiple classes for somatic symptom problems.