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ForwardPsychopharmacology Conference (2025)
Engage with Experts.
Elevate Results.
Enhance your Practice.
This psychiatry course examines the latest research and treatment advances across dozens of mental health conditions. It offers in-depth information that is important for all mental health and primary care settings. Topics include ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, psychosis, PTSD, substance use disorders, and much more.
In every session, our faculty share data from new clinical trials. They match it up against prior data and discuss what the changes mean. They also examine standards of care and share innovative ways to make care better. The agenda touches on many complex topics in mental health. Managing side effects, drug interactions, natural medications, combining pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments, and much more.
Most important of all, our faculty focuses on how to translate all these insights into your daily practice. This empowers you to optimize your care for patients with psychiatric conditions. That makes our event ideal for professionals in psychiatry, primary care, psychology, and nursing.
Target Audience
This program is intended for psychiatrists, psychologists, general and family practice physicians, psychiatric nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and social workers.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify rational, evidence-based pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies for patients with unipolar, bipolar, treatment-resistant, and post-partum depression.
- Compare the neurobiology and evidence-based treatment approaches to addiction, anxiety, schizophrenia, and mood disorders.
- Review the course and treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and menopause.
- Analyze drug interactions and the pharmacotherapy of adult ADHD and geriatric disorders.
- Apply newer strategies in the treatment of chemical abuse/dependence.
- Analyze evidence-based treatment for psychiatric illness.
- Assess the most recent state-of-the-art treatment alternatives.
- Assess new therapies and what is on the horizon.
- Analyze the use of CBT-based techniques.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, MGH Institute of Health Professions is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Participants can receive up to 26.0 CE.
Psychologists
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office is responsible for the content of the programs. MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 26.0 CE credit.
Physicians
MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
Nursing Contact Hours
MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 26.0 contact hours for nurses.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 26.0 clock hours for continuing education credits.
Pharmacist (ACPE)
This activity provides 26.0 contact hours (1.0 CEUs) of continuing education credit. ACPE Universal Activity Number: UAN JA4008265-0000-24-000-L04-P
NOTE FOR PHARMACISTS: Upon closing of the electronic evaluation, MGH IHP will upload the pharmacy-related continuing education information to CPE Monitor within 60 days. Per ACPE rules, MGH IHP does not have access to or the ability to upload credits requested after the evaluation closes. It is the responsibility of the pharmacist or pharmacy technician to provide the correct information [NABP ePID and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive credit for participating in a CE activity.
IPCE Credit
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 26.0 clock hours for continuing education credits.
49th Annual Psychopharmacology Conference
MODULE TOPIC – MOOD DISORDERS
Bipolar Depression
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD
Bipolar Long-Term Management
Roy Perlis, MD
Treatment Resistant Depression
Maurizio Fava, MD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD
Panelists: Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD, Roy Perlis, MD, Maurizio Fava, MD
MODULE TOPIC – ANXIETY/PTSD
PTSD & Insomnia
Amit Chopra, MBBS, DFAPA
Anxiety Disorders and Treatments
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Lee Cohen, MD
Panelists: Amit Chopra, MBBS, DFAPA, Jonah Cohen, PhD,
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD
MODULE TOPIC – WOMEN’S HEALTH
Course and Treatment of Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy
Lee S. Cohen, MD
Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Marlene P. Freeman, MD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Lee S. Cohen, MD
Panelist: Marlene P. Freeman, MD, Laura Fagioli Petrillo, EdM, MD
MODULE TOPIC – PSYCHOSIS
First-Episode Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Oliver Freudenreich, MD, FACLP
Management of Side-Effects of Antipsychotics
Abigail Donovan, MD
MODULE TOPIC – KETAMINE & ESKETAMINE
Ketamine and Esketamine: From Research to Clinical Practice
Cristina Cusin, MD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: David Mischoulon, MD
Panelists: Cristina Cusin, MD, Oliver Freudenreich, MD, FACLP, Abigail Donovan, MD
MODULE TOPIC – NEW THERAPIES: WHAT IS ON THE HORIZON?
Psychedelics
Franklin King, MD
New Treatments for Schizophrenia
Oliver Freudenreich, MD, FACLP
Neuromodulation and Interventional Psychiatry
Michael Kritzer, MD, PhD
Amplifying and Extending the Effects of Addiction Treatment
John F. Kelly, PhD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Oliver Freudenreich, MD, FACLP
Panelists: Franklin King, MD, Michael Kritzer, MD, PhD, John F. Kelly, PhD
MODULE TOPIC – ADDICTION
Alcohol and Opioids
Vinod Rao, MD, PhD
Treatment of Tobacco Use Disorders
Anne Eden Evins, MD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: David Rubin, MD
Panelists: Vinod Rao, MD, PhD, Anne Eden Evins, MD
MODULE TOPIC – OCD
Psychopharmacology of OCD
Lisa M. Zakhary, MD, PhD
Psychopharmacology for Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders
Erica Greenberg, MD
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Digital & AI-Powered Interventions for OCD & Related Disorders
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Panelists: Lisa M. Zakhary, MD, PhD, Erica Greenberg, MD
MODULE TOPIC – ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and Mood Disorders
Janet Wozniak, MD
ADHD
Timothy Wilens, MD
Drug Interactions
Jonathan E. Alpert, MD, PhD
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Timothy Wilens, MD
Panelists: Jonathan E. Alpert, MD, Janet Wozniak, MD
Course Directors:
Maurizio Fava, MD
Jerrold Rosenbaum, MD
Speakers:
Jonathan E. Alpert, MD, PhD
James Barrett, PhD
Khadijah Booth Watkins, MD, MPH, DFAACAP
Frederick Cabral, Superintendent
Joan A. Camprodon, MD, MPH, PhD
Amit Chopra, MBBS, DFAPA
Jonah Cohen, PhD
Lee S. Cohen, MD
Cristina Cusin, MD
Abigail L. Donovan, MD
Darin D. Dougherty, MD
A. Eden Evins, MD, MPH
Laura Fagioli Petrillo, EdM, MD
Maurizio Fava, MD
Marlene P. Freeman, MD
Oliver Freudenreich, MD, FACLP
Jennifer R. Gatchel, MD, PhD
Jodi M. Gilman, PhD
Erica Greenberg, MD
Daphne Holt, MD, PhD
Gagan Joshi, MD
John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP
Franklin King, MD
Christopher J. McDougle, MD
David Mischoulon, MD, PhD
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD
Maren Nyer, PhD
Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc
Vinod Rao, MD, PhD
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD
David H. Rubin, MD
Meaghan Rudolph, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC
Theodore A. Stern, MD
Kaloyan S. Tanev, MD
Timothy E. Wilens, MD
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD
Janet Wozniak, MD
Lisa M. Zakhary, MD, PhD
Available Credit
- 26.00 AAPA Category 1 CMEMGH Institute of Health Professions has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 26.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 07/01/2028. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
- 26.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of IHP and Massachusetts General Hospital. IHP is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
IHP designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 26.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 26.00 Nursing Contact Hours
Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 13, sections 13, 14, 14A, 15 and 15D and Chapter 112, sections 74 through 81C authorize the Board of Registration in Nursing to regulate nursing practice and education.
This program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR 5.00) for 26.00 contact hours of nursing continuing education credit. Advance practice nurses, please note: Educational activities which meet the requirements of the ACCME (such as this activity) count towards 50% of the nursing requirement for ANCC accreditation.
- 26.00 Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 26.00 clock hours for continuing education credits.
- 26.00 Participation
This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course.
Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.
- 26.00 Psychologists CE Credit
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 26.00 CE credit.