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Healthcare professionals invited to symposium



National experts on addiction and compulsive behaviors will speak at a symposium for healthcare professionals Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Baptist Heart Center Auditorium. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with registration at 8:30 a.m.

Invited are physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, licensed professional counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, substance abuse counselors, licensed social workers, pharmacists and clergy. Continuing Medical Education credit hours are available for several professions. Lunch is provided, and space is limited. Register by Oct. 21 by phoning (270) 575-2723. The fee is $30.

Cardiologist Patrick Withrow, M.D., Western Baptist Hospital vice president and chief medical officer, will moderate. Topics and presenters include:

•   “The 12 Steps – An Insight into the Science, Spirituality and Discipline of How They Work,” by Burns Brady, M.D., addiction consultant for The Healing Place, a 400-bed men and women’s homeless shelter recognized in the Top 5 in the U.S. He is a clinical instructor on alcoholism for the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky and Pikeville Schools of Medicine.

•   “You Mean I Have to be Nice AND Smart?” by James T. Jennings, M.D., medical director of the Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation-Impaired Physicians Program.

•   “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – The Next Level,” by Phil Herndon, M.D., clinical director at Nashville’s Center for Professional Excellence, which uses an addiction treatment model based in the Spiritual Root System.

•   “Eating Disorders as an Addiction,” by Tennie McCarty, M.D., founder and CEO of Shades of Hope, a treatment center that addresses multiple addictions, including eating disorders, alcoholism, chemical dependency, sexual addiction, self-injury histories and co-dependency.

•   “Chasing the Balloon – A Historical Perspective of the Search for the Addiction Cure,” by Robert W. Mooney, M.D., medical director of Willingway Hospital, a privately owned 40-bed specialty hospital.