2011 Annual Meeting Brochure
2012 Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL, April 29-May 2
Leadership Lessons Learned
All pharmacy practitioners are leaders in that we are all change agents and influencers of the thinking of our patients, students, and colleagues. Dr. Wells’ presentation is designed to help you select strategies to maximize your ability to bring about change in your professional setting and realize your potential to build programs, improve the care of patients, and increase your personal effectiveness.
Management of Aggression in Children and Adolescents
M. Lynn Crismon, PharmD, BCPP, FCCP
Tuesday, May 3, 2011-9:30-10:30 AM
Children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders may exhibit pathologic aggression that is destructive, severe, chronic, and unresponsive to psychosocial/ psychopharmacological treatment of their underlying pathology as well as to psychosocial interventions specifically targeting aggression.
Delivered by M. Lynn Crismon, PharmD, BCPP, FCCP, Dean, James T. Doluisio Regents Chair, and Behrens Inc. Centennial Professor with the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, this program will review the etiology, phenomenology, and treatment modalities for aggression in children and adolescents. Discussion of best practices to clinically manage aggression in this population will be included as well. The session will also highlight evidence-based interventions and expert consensus recommendations, both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic, and their relative effectiveness.