Bioethics Calendar Of Event
Event Title: The Second Curtis J. Berger Symposium on Mental Health and Law- Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Context: Leveraging Compliance in the Community

Date: 11/20/2009   Time: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Place: Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Hall Room 102 435 W. 116th Street New York, NY 10027

Speaker: Dr. Paul Appelbaum; Dr. John Monahan; Dr. Beth Angell; Dr. Marvin Swartz; Dr. Michael Hogan

Sponsor: The Bridge Inc; Columbia Law School; and Committee on Mental Health of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Contact Information: For more information contact: (212) 663-3000 ext. 373 thebridgeny@thebridgeny.org

Description:
Moderated by Dr. Paul Appelbaum, Past President of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Mandatory Outpatient Treatment and Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law at Columbia University.

The Second Curtis J. Berger Symposium on Mental Health and the Law will be an opportunity for the legal and mental health communities to review the variety of techniques used nationally to gain outpatient treatment compliance and to consider the legal and ethical issues that result from the intersection of treatment concerns and civil rights. Dr. John Monahan of the University of Virginia Law School, is the lead researcher of a multi-year, multi-city MacArthur Foundation-funded study of outpatient compliance methods and will present the study’s most current findings. Dr. Beth Angell of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Social Work will review her work on the effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment teams in gaining consumer compliance. Dr. Marvin Swartz of the Duke University School of Medicine, principal author of the recent evaluation of New York State’s Outpatient Commitment Law, will present the finding of this important study which forms the background for legislative action in the spring of 2010 when Kendra’s Law sunsets. Dr. Michael Hogan, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, and a panel of agency, family and consumer representatives will share their perspectives.