CME Calendar

March 9 and 10–12, 2002, American Neuropsychiatric Association 13th Annual Meeting, Hilton Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California. Category 1 CME credit tba. Pre-meeting workshops begin March 9. See preliminary program elsewhere in this issue. For further information: Sandy Bornstein, ANPA, tel.: 1-614-447-2077; e-mail: anpa@ postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu.

March 15–17, 2002, Mayo Clinic Headache Symposium, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Arizona. Sponsored by Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. Offers 13.0 Category 1 CME credits. Offers an evidence-based, practical approach to acute and preventive treatment of migraine, chronic daily headache, cluster headache, and analgesic rebound headache. The cardiovascuar safety profile of the triptans and the relationship between female hormones and migraine throughout the reproductive life cycle will be discussed. For information: Sarah Dorste; tel.: 1-480-301-4580; fax: 1-480-301-8323.

May 4–8, 2002, 11th Congress of the Association of European Psychiatrists, Stockholm, Sweden. The program will feature keynote lectures, symposia, workshops, poster presentations, and a selection of psychiatric CME courses. Nobel laureates Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel will present their views of how brain research can stimulate future developments of psychiatry in plenary lectures at this Congress. English is the official language of the Congress. For information: 11th AEP Congress, P.O. Box 6911, SE-102 39 Stockholm, Sweden; tel.: 46 8 54 65 15 00; fax: 46 8 54 65 15 99; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.aep2002.org.

Ongoing in February, July, and October, Mini-Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Sponsored by Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education. Offers up to 35 hours of Category 1 CME credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Provides one week of training. A second week of training and observation is available. For information: tel.: 1-617-432-1525; fax: 1-617-432-1562; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.med.harvard.edu/conted.

The Leonardo da Vinci Project of the European Accreditation Committee seeks to ensure a pan-European dimension to education in psychiatry, neurology, and neuropsychopharmacology. Its goal is to help countries in the European Union develop compatible CME systems with uniformly high standards. For information: Prof. Julien Mendlewicz; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.leonardo-eac.org.

Information, please: For a biography of Walter J. Freeman, M.D., the primary developer and promoter of frontal lobotomy in the United States, the author would appreciate hearing from colleagues, acquaintances, and patients with recollections, letters, documents, or artifacts that pertain to Dr. Freeman's life. Jack El-Hai, 2408 Humboldt Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55405; e-mail: [email protected].