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ForwardSpeakers: David Bond, M.D., Sam Savitz, Ph.D., David Miklowitz, Ph.D., Jennifer Kruse, M.D., Alexandra Vinson, Ph.D.
Title: Collaborative Conversations About Heart and Brain Health with Participants
Introduction:
David Bond, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He completed medical school and his psychiatry residency at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's, Canada, and his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His PhD research was on the relationships between elevated BMI, brain structure, and neurochemistry in first-episode mania patients. His subsequent work has focused on whether BMI-related inflammation predicts clinical and neurobiological disease progression in bipolar disorder and using novel modeling approaches to investigate causal relationships between elevated BMI and serious mental illnesses.
Sam Savitz, PhD Samuel (Sam) T. Savitz, Ph.D., is a health services researcher who analyzes factors related to undertreatment and overtreatment of health conditions and how care for individual patients can be optimized. Dr. Savitz primarily uses administrative claims data and electronic health records to evaluate interventional and noninterventional therapies to address chronic conditions. In particular, he is focused on improving care for patients with cardiovascular disease, including ischemic heart disease and heart failure.
David Miklowitz, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program (CHAMP) at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is also Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford University in the UK.
His research focuses on family environmental factors and family interventions for kids and adults with bipolar or psychotic disorders, particularly those in the early stages of these illnesses. His work has helped establish the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions as adjuncts to medication for bipolar disorder across the age ranges.
Dr. Miklowitz has received numerous awards for his research, including:
Young Investigator Awards from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (1987) and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) (1987)
a Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD (2001)
the 2005 Mogens Schou Award from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders
the 2009 Gerald Klerman Senior Research Investigator Award from the Depressive and Bipolar Support Alliance,
the 2011 Bipolar Mood Disorder Research Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
In 2017, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology in 2020, the Mood Disorders Research Award from the American College of Psychiatry, one of only three psychologists to have done so.
He has received multiple research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and 10 private foundations.
Dr. Miklowitz has published over 400 research articles and book chapters, and 8 books, including “The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide,” an international bestseller with over 350,000 copies in print and translated into 8 languages. His latest book is called “Living well with bipolar disorder: Practical strategies for improving your daily life.”
Jennifer L. Kruse, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, where she directs the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship and serves as Site Principal Investigator for the BD² Integrated Network Study. Her research focuses on the intersection of mood disorders, inflammation, and metabolic health, with an emphasis on integrated approaches to care across medical and psychiatric settings.
Alexandra H. Vinson, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. Her research investigates how the medical profession adapts to its changing place in American society by reshaping medical training programs and how the American healthcare system can be transformed to support robust multistakeholder engagement in healthcare improvement work. At the University of Michigan, Alexandra leads the Bipolar Disorder Learning Community, an initiative of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program. Alexandra is also the Learning Health Network Co-Lead for the Milken Institute’s Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder (BD2) initiative.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Assess the need to prioritize physical health in bipolar disorder.
Identify how early Integrated Network cohort data aligns with physical wellness priority.
Integrate or provide a booster session to clinicians on how best to start a collaborative conversation around wellness.
Motivational interviewing to encourage physical wellness.
Adjunctive pharmacotherapy targeting weight loss, diabetes, and cardiometabolic.
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TRANSCRIPT
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