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       Robert L. Findling, M.D.

     
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Dr. Findling is the Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Findling earned his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and went to medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Findling did a joint residency-training program in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Findling is the principal investigator of an NIMH study that is assessing the longitudinal course of children with manic symptoms. In collaboration with Joseph Calabrese, M.D., Dr. Findling is the co-Principal Investigator on an NIMH developing center grant that is focusing on the treatment of bipolar disorder across the life span. Dr. Findling’s research is also supported in part by the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the St. Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio and the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, Dr. Findling is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Work Group on Research.

   
OBJECTIVES                                                                                                                                                               
 
        At the completion of this session, the participant should be able to:
         1) Describe the rationale for pharmacotherapy early in the course of bipolar illness,
  2) Describe the short-term evidence for pharmacotherapy in pediatric mania, and
  3) Describe the evidence regarding the maintenance treatments of pediatric bipolarity.
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