Bioethics Calendar Of Event

Event Title: Mental Capacity and Psychopathology: A UK Perspective

Date: 11/17/2009   Time: 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Place: Board Room #6601 New York State Psychiatric Institute

Speaker: Gareth S. Owen, BSc. MBBS MRCPsych, Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Honorary Consultant, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Sponsor: Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, Seminar series on Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and General Medicine

Contact Information: For further information or to convey suggestions about future speakers, contact Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Director, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, at 212-543-4184 or psa21@columbia.edu.

Description: Dr. Owen has performed some of the seminal work in assessing mental capacity for treatment decision making among general medical patients, as well as patients with psychiatric disorders. He will be presenting an overview of that work, with a special focus on the relationships between capacity and psychopathological symptoms.