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Summary:
Use of psychotropic medications has increased dramatically in this generation. Illnesses once thought hopeless and untreatable have been brought under control, and the people with these illnesses have been allowed to live healthy, productive lives. Bearing witness to the positive and negative aspects of psychotropic medications, and often faced with the brunt of day-to-day questions about these drugs are the case managers, social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, aides and other front line mental health care staff.
Program Presenter:
Roger W. Sommi, PharmD, FCCP, BCPP, received his Bachelors in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Utah in 1985, and completed a Clinical Services Fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin and Austin State Hospital. He is currently Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Psyhiatry at the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Research Director of the Psychopharmacy Research and Education Program at Western Missouri Mental Health Center.
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The class provides information about offenders incarcerated in state of Missouri prisons with Substance Abuse problems and Mental Health disorders. Dr. Nolin will discuss some basic challenges faced by offenders with co-occurring disorders face within the correctional system and upon release into the community and reference some evolving interventions and initiatives being implemented by MoDOC and partnering agencies. The session will review some mechanisms being implemented in order to improve the continuity of care for the offenders. Finally the session will identify to ways for concerned citizens and human services professionals to partner with the Department of Corrections to foster offender success in the community.
Program Presenter:
Marta Nolin is the Assistant Director of the Division of Offender Rehabilitative Services responsible for Substance Abuse Services. She serves on the state steering team and Department of Corrections’ leadership team for the Missouri Re-entry Process. Her diverse professional background includes working as a mental health clinician for many years in psychiatric and academic settings and six years as a college and university administrator in Massachusetts and Ohio. Marta has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from University of Missouri- Columbia.
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When conducting a physical exam to assess for FAS Physicians should focus their attention on Occipitofrontal Circumference, the Supraorbital Ridge, the Palpebral Fissures, the Filtrum and assessing for Clinodactyly.
Dr. Braddock conducts an examination on an 11 year old African American male to assess for fetal alcohol syndrome.
Program Presenter:
Stephen Braddock, MD. Dr. Braddock teaches at the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine in the Child Health Department. He is a Geneticist and Dysmorphologist who received an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine 1984-88. Dr. Braddock completed his internship in Pediatrics at the University of Utah, Affiliated Hospitals in 1989. Dr. Braddock completed a Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Utah, Affiliated Hospitals in 1991. He completed a Medical Genetics Fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at UCLA and a Dysmorphology Fellowship in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego in 1994.
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