Conference to mark Center on Adolescent Health's 10th anniversary

The Center for Adolescent Health will host a conference in November in observance of its 10-year anniversary. The keynote speaker, Trina Anglin, is a double alumna of CWRU and a former faculty member who helped co-found the center in 1991.

The conference -- "Psyche and Soma: The Path to Total Health in Adolescence"-- is from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, November 2 in Thwing Center. The Ohio Valley Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine will present the conference with the Center for Adolescent Health.

The keynote address is "Promotion of Adolescent Mental Health: Interface with Primary Care." Anglin's presentation will have a broad perspective, covering topics such as national policy, organization of clinical services, and what can occur within the context of individual clinical encounters between primary care clinicians and adolescents and their families.

Conference workshop and breakout session topics will examine depression, mental health ethics, patient disclosure of homicidal thoughts, pharmacotherapy for depression, screening for exposure to violence and aggressive behavior, building resistance to high-risk behaviors, common psychiatric disorders, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Anglin is chief of the Office of Adolescent Health in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) in Washington, D.C. The bureau is part of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. Anglin also is the immediate past president of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.

Anglin is a former associate professor of pediatrics of CWRU. A decade ago, she co-founded the school's Center for Adolescent Health with Frederick Robbins and Carlyn Yanda. Anglin was the center's first director. Also, she is the former head of the division of adolescent medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center.

She earned a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology Ph.D. at CWRU. Her medical degree came in 1972 from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Anglin completed her residency training in pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland and at New York and Presbyterian Hospital's Cornell Campus. She is board-certified in adolescent medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics.

This event celebrates the center's 10-year anniversary. Conference attendees will be invited to a gala reception the night before. For more information, contact the center at 368-3770 or visit the center's Web site at http://www.cwru.edu/med/adolescenthealth/events.html.

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