On May 10th the Department of Psychiatry will host a Special Guest Lecture by Tony Wilson, PhD, Scientific Director of the Center for Magnetoencephalography (MEG) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Dr. Wilson earned his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota as a NICHD pre-doctoral trainee under the direction of Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos and later completed a NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center under the direction of Drs. Donald Rojas and Marty Reite. He later became the founding director of the Center for Magnetoencephalography (MEG) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which has grown to be one of the most active MEG sites in the world in terms of peer-reviewed publications and federal funding. Dr. Wilson is currently a tenured associate professor at UNMC and serves as the director of their MEG and MRI research centers as well as the dynamic imaging of cognition and neuromodulation (DICON) laboratory. His research program uses multimodal neuroimaging to investigate how aging, HIV, cannabis and/or alcohol use, and other health factors affect cognitive and brain function independently and interactively. In particular, Dr. Wilson’s laboratory focuses on the oscillatory neural dynamics of attention and motor control, and how these dynamics predict cognitive performance in real time. Dr. Wilson has published over 95 peer-reviewed manuscripts in top journals such as Brain, Biological Psychiatry, Cerebral Cortex, Neurology, Diabetes, NeuroImage, and many others, and currently serves as the PI or Co-PI for seven R01-equilvalent awards and multiple smaller NIH grants.
Location. UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium.
For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick (Telephone: 412-246-6787; Email: patrickfm@upmc.edu).
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this lecture, participants will be able to:
Review the basic physiological and physical principles of MEG.
Identify some of the more prominent functional brain alterations associated with aging.
Describe how some of these alterations appear earlier in specific patient groups.
Continuing Education Credit: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours. In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference. WPIC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPIC maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.
The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist. These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal. For more information, call (412) 204-9085.
