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The eighth annual Fountain House Symposium and Luncheon, entitled Understanding Neuroplasticity: How the Brain Heals Itself, will be held from 11:15 am to 2:00 pm on Monday, May 2nd, 2011, at The Pierre, Fifth Avenue at 61st Street in New York City.
Fountain House is privileged to have three distinguished panelists: Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. Herbert Pardes, MD is a national figure in psychiatry and academic medicine and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Pardes was also the US Assistant Surgeon General and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health under the Carter and Reagan Administrations. Benjamin D. Philpot, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. Dr. Philpot received his PhD in psychobiology from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Jamison will be the recipient of the Fountain House Humanitarian Award. She is one of the foremost authorities on manic depression. She has been named by Time magazine as a ’Hero of Medicine’. She appeared on the "Charlie Rose Brain Series: The Mentally Ill Brain" in June 2010. Dr. Jamison, who lives with mental illness, has written eloquently about her own experiences in her book, An Unquiet Mind, a New York Times bestseller. All of her books, including the newly released Nothing Was the Same, have educated, enlightened, and brought hope to people throughout the world.
Co- Chairs: Patricia Begley, Kitty de Chazal, Lorna Hyde Graev, Alexandra A. Herzan, Anne Mai, Lynn Nicholas, PsyD.
Tickets start at $350; Tables start at $5,000. Contact Susan Bell Special Events at 212.874.5457 or heatherprochorchik@bellevents.com.
Fountain House is one of the world’s leading mental health models, providing employment, educational, and housing opportunities to people living with serious mental illness. This successful model has been replicated by hundreds of Fountain House programs serving tens of thousands of people worldwide.
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