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This informative conference addresses current challenges for young patients occurring in spite of an increasing number of treatment options in child psychiatry. Some of the common challenges include medication side effects, obesity and the presence of comorbid disorders. The Paul Laybourne Symposium on Child and Adolescent Psychology will present clinicians with a rational approach to the management of these clinical challenges.

Doctors Sarah Hampl and Meredith Dreyer will review the topic of obesity in children, specifically obesity in child psychiatric patients. Dr. Dreyer will also describe effective approaches for obesity management in youth with psychiatric disorders. Dr. Cary Savage will review the latest findings in the neuroscience of obesity.

Doctors Jefferson Prince and Bob Batterson will address important clinical concepts related to prescribing psychotropic medications to children and adolescents. Dr. Prince will also discuss an evidence-based clinical approach to treating patients with complicated comorbidities. He will describe a rationale for medication selection and review clinical case studies. Dr. Batterson will provide strategies for appropriate monitoring and management of common medication side effects.

We encourage all area psychiatrists, pediatricians, psychologists, nurses, social workers and other clinicians participating in mental health care for children and adolescents to attend. This symposium will also be great for students and trainees in the aforementioned fields.

Presented by the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, KVC Behavioral Health Systems, Inc., the Kansas City Regional Chapter of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Continuing Education.

Visit the KUMC Continuing Education website to learn how to register and to view the conference agenda.