MSSNY CME

Children and Adolescents at Risk:

Primary Authors:

Norman W. Wetterau, MD is a family physician at Tri-County Family Medicine in Dansville NY. and also serves as a Medical Consultant to the Livingston County Council of Alcoholism Outpatient Treatment Program and the Livingston County Dept of Health. Dr. Wetterau received his medical education at Duke University Medical School and did his internship at University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington KY. He completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Wetterau is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at University of Rochester School of Medicine and has taught medical students and residents in his office. Dr. Wetterau has been involved in many professional organizations and advisory boards including OASAS Medical Advisory Committee, New York State Fellow, American Society of Addiction Medicine, and he served as chair of MSSNY's Addiction and Psychiatric Medicine Committee. He is also a member of MSSNY's Family Health Issues Committee and is on the MSSNY Task Force on Alcohol and Health.

Geoffrey E. Moore, MD graduated from Brown University in 1979 and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1987. His expertise spans the spectrum from physical activity and lifestyle modification in the care of chronic disease, to sports medicine for athletes. His clinical post-doctoral training included a residency in internal medicine and a musculo-skeletal medicine / sports medicine fellowship. In addition, he spent 3 years in research fellowships on cardiovascular disease and exercise science, and was a research associate at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. He spent 6 years as Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh where he was Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Currently, he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at Syracuse University, and is the Director of Clinical Services at the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, in Ithaca, NY. In his role at the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, Dr. Moore oversees clinical lifestyle intervention services, notably Cayuga Medical Center's programs in cardiac rehabilitation and bariatric medicine. He is vice chair of the Family Health Issues committee of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and serves as US and National subcommittee chair for the Health and Science Policy of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Communicating with a Diverse Population

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Milton O. C. Haynes, MD, is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, who is a member of the MSSNY Task Force to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities. He chairs the Subcommittee on Professional Awareness/MD Education for the Task Force. Dr. Haynes attended a training session for the AMA Program "Health Literacy, Help Your Patients Understand". With the support of the AMA, he subsequently was able to condense the program into an educational program that the Medical Society's Task Force presented. This program was then converted to an on-line format for the Medical Society.

Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much

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Jeffrey Selzer, MD graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and then completed a psychiatric residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. He serves as medical director for the Committee on Physicians' Health. He most recently served as Medical Director of the Zucker Hillside Hospital and Director of Addiction Treatment Services for the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, the third-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system in the United States. He has been a member of the NIDA National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) since 2001, and has served in the CTN as a Steering Committee Member, an Executive Committee Member, and as Chair of the Research Utilization Committee. He serves as a Board Member of the New York Society of Addiction Medicine and the Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society. He is a Fellow in the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association. His faculty appointment is at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

HIV in Marginalized/Underserved Populations

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William Valenti, MD is an internist/ infectious diseases specialist and a native of Rochester, NY. He is a co-founder of Community Health Network, a not-for-profit medical clinic/ disease management program caring for 700 people with HIV/AIDS in Rochester, NY. Dr. Valenti is a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, did his infectious diseases training at the University of Rochester and is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine. He has been involved in HIV treatment, research and policy in the United States since the early 1980's and is chair of the Medical Society's HIV, Hepatitis and STI Advisory Panel.

Sexually Transmitted Disease

Primary Author:

William Valenti, MD is an internist/ infectious diseases specialist and a native of Rochester, NY. He is a co-founder of Community Health Network, a not-for-profit medical clinic/ disease management program caring for 700 people with HIV/AIDS in Rochester, NY. Dr. Valenti is a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, did his infectious diseases training at the University of Rochester and is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine. He has been involved in HIV treatment, research and policy in the United States since the early 1980's and is chair of the Medical Society's HIV, Hepatitis and STI Advisory Panel.

Effective Tobacco Dependence

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Geoffrey C. Williams, MD received his medical degree from Wayne State University in 1983, did his internship and residency in internal medicine and then fellowships in biopsychosocial medicine and in general internal medicine, at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He then received his Ph.D. in motivational and health psychology from the University of Rochester, supervised by Prof. Edward L. Deci. He was awarded an Individual NRSA post-doctoral fellowship from NCI to do his first study of smoking cessation. Dr. Williams is Associate Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Rochester, and is a staff physician in the Department of Medicine at the University's Strong Memorial Hospital. Dr. Williams was PI of two research grants, one from NIDDK (DK 50807), and one funded jointly by NIMH and NCI (MH-59594) as part of the Behavior Change Consortium. He is currently PI on an NCI grant to examine maintenance of health behavior change that is funded by NCI (CA106668). He has done several research projects on the relation of motivation to medical adherence, behavior change, and health status.

Tobacco Use Adolescents/Women

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Jonathan D. Klein, MD, MPH is Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Julius B. Richmond Center, a national center of excellence funded by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute and dedicated to the elimination of children's exposure to tobacco and secondhand smoke. He is Professor of Pediatrics, Preventive and Community Medicine, and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. He currently serves as Acting Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, and Associate Chair for Community and Government Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Klein is an expert in adolescent medicine and child and adolescent health services research. His research addresses access and quality of care for youth, and systems and clinician behavior change for tobacco control childhood obesity, and comprehensive adolescent preventive services. He served as a member of, and is immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Emergencies: A Physician Education Program

This curriculum is designed to assist physicians in obtaining experience in bio terrorism preparedness training. There are Biological, Chemical and Nuclear agents contained in the modules. These modules will provide valuable information during any public health emergency involving these agents.

BCN Program Author:

Angelo Acquista, MD, received his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine in 1981 and is affiliated with Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan as an Attending Physician and Clinical Instructor in the Intensive Care Unit. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and tropical diseases, and he is an Honorary Police Surgeon of the New York City Police Department. He also served on Mayor Giuliani's Task Force on Bioterrorism and is the former pro bono Medical Director for the New York City Office of Emergency Management.

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William M. Valenti, MD is an internist/ infectious diseases specialist and a native of Rochester, NY. He is a co-founder of AIDS Community Health Center, a not-for-profit medical clinic caring for 700 people with HIV/AIDS in Rochester, NY.

Dr. Valenti did his infectious diseases training at the University of Rochester, is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and prior to his work in HIV treatment, research and policy, he served as Hospital Epidemiologist at Strong Memorial Hospital from 1977-1988. During this period, he also served as a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control to develop training programs on the practice and theory of infection control and outbreak investigation, vaccine preventable infections, and emerging infectious diseases and their management.

The Psychological Impact of Disaster and Terrorism: Tending to the Hidden Wounds

This curriculum is designed to assist physicians in treating trauma resulting from terrorism and natural disasters.

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Craig Katz, MD is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where has served in various roles since 2000. Dr. Katz served as the director of the World Trade Center Worker/Volunteer Mental Health Monitoring and Treatment Program, which meets the mental health needs of people who worked or volunteered at Ground Zero after 9/1l from 2002 through July 2006, and now is the Supervising Psychiatrist within that program. He also serves as the Director of the Fellowship in Global Mental Health at Mount Sinai. Dr. Katz has previously served as the Director of Psychiatry Emergency Services and then Director of Acute Care Psychiatry Services at Mount Sinai. Dr. Katz received separate teaching awards from medical students and residents in 2001 and was nominated as a faculty member of the Mount Sinai chapter of the AOA medical honor society in 2003.

Dr. Katz co-founded Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (DPO) in 1998 as a charitable organization devoted to the provision of voluntary psychiatric care to people affected by disasters and has served in various roles in the organization, currently serving as its President. His work in disasters has extended as far as El Salvador and Sri Lanka. Dr. Katz also serves as co-chair of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) New York County District Branch Committee on Disaster and as principal author of a number of citywide and statewide training programs in disaster mental health. He lectures, writes, and conducts scholarly work on various aspects of disasters as they relate to psychiatry, including two edited books. Dr. Katz received the APA's 2001 Bruno Lima Award in Disaster Psychiatry. He has been a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine since 2007.

Dr. Katz graduated from Harvard College and obtained his medical degree from Columbia University. He went on to complete his residency in psychiatry at Columbia University in 1999 and a subsequent fellowship in forensic psychiatry at New York University in 2000. Dr. Katz has a private practice in general and forensic psychiatry in Manhattan.