The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society

Bruno Gallo, MD, clearly and comfortably explains conditions such as ataxia, dyskinesa, Parkinson's Disease, tremors, chorea, etc., including the pathologies and treatments.

Dave Aronberg, St Attorney Palm Beach County (Fl) speaks to the problem and his active task force to stop and reduce some of the systems which fuel the problem.

Deven Kansagara, MD, speaks to the current station of cannabis use in chronic pain, research interests, and how physicians should address the issues with patients.

Architect Terrance Glassman speaks on our connections to our living spaces, a bit of history, and the emotional and functional aspects of a healthy and safe environment.

David Cosio, Ph. D., addresses this common problem and how to approach it. He offers his clinical experiences and observations, with a co-emphasis on educating clinicians on the need for treatment consistency and team efforts.

Elaine Rothenberg, PhD, runs a residential care program. After 20 years of existence, it has evolved into a project worth a close study and considerable modeling.

Rosyln Malmaud, PhD, explains the binge eater, the etiology, symbolism of food, that it is also in men, and types of interventions.

Jonathan Meyer, M.D., from the University of California-San Diego.  Part one discusses two new medications for tardive dyskinesia; part two addresses the psychosis often seen in Parkinson’s Disease. Detailed, but easy to understand

Andy Farah MD, integrates his depressions, the heavy drinking, his head injuries, his suicide, and his genius

Two psychiatrists from Saudi Arabia discuss the nature and challenges of providing mental health care in Saudi Arabia.

Robert Moran, MD, psychiatry and addictionology, explains the issues of etiology and intervention, the inadequate use of evidence based knowledge, relapses, pregnancy, etc.

Dr Brian King is the deputy director at the U,S. Center for Disease Control for Research Translation in the Office of Smoking and Health.. He speaks to second hand smoke, educational efforts, known medical concerns, yet real successes lessening tobacco use, the remaining socioeconomic use patterns, etc.

Gail Price-Wise discusses a famous Miami malpractice case which was the result of defective and negligent culture-driven errors. She has since set up the Center for Cultural Competence to study and teach how to defuse prejudice and related bias. She shares her insights.

Two American psychiatrists discuss how and why, as children, they left Cuba, They speak to the processes, the struggles in Cuba, the work of immigrating, insights, and their on-going concerns with human rights both in Cuba and elsewhere. .

Catherine Passariello, Ph. D., explains how genetic testing can be used with psychopharmacology. She also gives some history, and an overview of pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and epigenetics.

Rebecca Cox-MacDonald gives her story of smoking, and why and how she finally stopped. She is part of a CDC anti-spoking program.

Jacqueline Hobbs., M.D., psychiatrist, speaks to women's realities, situations of abuse, medications during pregnancy and breast feed, postpartum issues, PMS, libido changes in life, etc.

Amanda Terrell, Ph. D., works in programs to address the impact of poverty on physical, social, and emotional development. She discusses her observations, the program's outreaches, and other critical on-gong concerns.

Andrew Farah, MD, details the theory and interplay of l-methylfolate, homocysteine and depression. He explains how it is a different approach to some biological depressions.

Myria Levick, PhD, is a pioneer and leader in the theory and use of art therapy for all ages. She also speaks to her time working with Anna Freud. (Recorded in her living room.)

Kenneth Kosik, M.D., speaks on dementia, the etiology of, and practical ways to change life styles to mitigate its onset, research approaches, and other general observations. He is a reuroscientist/researcher/author at the Univ of California, Santa Barbara.

Robert Ursano MD, Chair of Diaster Psychiatry for the American Psychiatric Assoc.,carefully explains typical post event reactions, the better style of interventions, details acute from chronic reactions, etc

James Doty, M.D., a neurosurgeon, retells the story (in his book of the same name) that changed his life insofar as helping him be a more humanistic physician, the role of mentors, pacing oneself, choice of values, etc., all leading to the creation of the Center for Compassion and Altruism and Education at Stanford University.

Tom Marshburn, M.D., and an US astronaut, speaks to the science and his two experiences in space, first working in the shuttle and then living in the space station, and of the many research spin offs, the life patterns in space, of no gravity, medical changes, etc., giving us many fascinating details.

Deirdre Robertson, Ph. D., reports on a large on-going study of aging. It covers key items as such the effect of perception of aging on cognitive decline, measuring walking speed, the notion of fragility, etc. From Trinity College, Dublin. She is now with Columbia University, NY.