Thursday August 28
7:45 a.m. to From 7:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Major Symposia will take place in 8 different meeting rooms
10:00 a.m.
Kohala 1 14 Group Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine 
  (Chair) D  SPIEGEL; D  SPIEGEL, S  ABBEY, M  GUN-USISHKIN, H RINCON, L GISE, (Discussant) TBD
Kohala 2 37 Mental Stress-Provoked Myocardial Ischemia And Acute Cardiac Events: Can The Risk Be Reduced?
  (Chair) P G KAUFMANN; D S SHEPS, J A BLUMENTHAL, K E FREEDLAND, (Discussant) B  CARNEY
King's 1 28 The Electronic Medical Record and the PDA for Psychosomatic Medicine and C-L Psychiatry 
  (Chair) J J STRAIN; J J STRAIN, L R FLORES, R  FRAGRAUS, A  DIEFENBACKER, S  CARVALHO, N  CHIU, (Discussant) J J STRAIN
Queen's 4 34 Integrative Psychosomatic Assessment And Predictive Models For Treatment OUTCOME 
  (Chair) T  SIVIK; T  SENSKY, A  FINSET, D  DUMITRASKU, A  WESTMAN,  (Discussant): D GOEBERT
Kohala 3 DEBATE:  Assessing Alexithymia in Psychosomatic Patient Samples
  M BAGBY VS U MALT
King's 3 25 Teaching Psychiatry To Primary Care Physicians: What, When, and How? 
  (Chair) H  LEIGH; D  LIPSITT, D  STEWART, T  GRADY-WELIKY, S  POWSNER, (Discussant) B  CHOI
Queen's 6 15 Psychosomatic Issues in Liver Disease II:  Liver Transplantation 
  (Chair) N W WITHERS; J R MALDONADO, R C HILSABECK, B  DISHMAN, (Discussant) T THOMPSON
King's 2  
   
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. to Monarchy PLENARY SESSION
12:00 p.m. Room CHAIRS: H LEIGH; P MUSKIN; T SIVIK
FRANCIS CREED
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Understanding And Treating Medically Unexplained Symptoms – The Example Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  Monarchy DON R.  LIPSITT
Room Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, USA
The Doctor, His (or Her) Patient, and Who (or What) Else. Is the Patient-Doctor Relationship Obsolete? 
 
  Monarchy GEORGE CHRISTODOULOU
Room Professor and Chairman, Department of  Social Medicine,
Psychiatry and Neurology, Athens University Medical School, Greece
Ethics in Psychosomatic Medicine
12:30 p.m. CLOSING SESSION CHAIR: G CHRISTODOULOU