Depression and Bipolar Awareness Program at SUNY Downstate, Feb. 24
Feb 10, 2010
SUNY Downstate Medical Center and the NYC Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention are offering a free educational seminar on “Depression and Bipolar Awareness: From Diagnosis to Remission,” on Wednesday, February 24, from 5:30 – 8:00 pm, in the Alumni Auditorium, at 395 Lenox Road, Brooklyn. To register, call 718-388-8649.
The event features a one-hour broadcast with medical experts and a panel of patients and family members describing their experiences, the benefits of treatment, and recovery. Following the broadcast, members of SUNY Downstate’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will answer questions from the audience. For more information about the broadcast, visit www.afsp.org/depressionbroadcast.
On the night of the event, registration and refreshments will begin at 5:30, followed by the broadcast at 6:00 p.m. Discussion will follow at 7:00 p.m.
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.