Meeting Highlights on Psychiatric Treatment Perspectives in Neurology: The 3rd Annual Chair Summit

The Institute of Medicine report entitled Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions (2010) calls for continuing medical education (CME) to align learning with health professionals’ needs. To meet that goal, The 3rd Annual Chair Summit,The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development, held in Chicago, Illinois (August 2010), brought together chairpersons in psychiatry and neurology to act as expert peer teachers for frontline, clinician learners. Faculty and learners collaboratively evaluated evidence, shared ideas and clinical practice challenges, developed individualized clinical strategies, explored the role of the multidisciplinary team, discussed health-system issues, and translated the neuroscience discoveries into patient-centered practice improvements. This 5th and final article in the companion series, “Meeting Highlights of the 3rd Annual Chair Summit, The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development, 2010” will summarize psychiatric perspectives on neurological illnesses and injuries: multiple sclerosis; traumatic brain injury; sleep-wake disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea; Alzheimer’s disease management; and psychiatric care of older persons, including a case from one chart review session. Highlights of current and emerging developments related to psychiatric treatment perspectives for the management of neurological illness are discussed. Summary points connecting research to clinical practice for each topic are also presented.