Annual Psychiatric Conference: "Cannabis & Mental Health: Implications for Public Health Policy"

Event Date: 
Aug 10 2014 - 8:00am

Space Limited. Early Registration Recommended.

The Conference is presented by the Jamaica Psychiatric Association in conjunction with the Section of Psychiatry, Department of Community Health and Psychiatry 

 Topics for discussion include:

  •  Medical Marijuana: The Research, Clinical and Economic Potentials (Professor Wendel Abel)
  • Free the Weed!...At What Cost to the Jamaican Society? (Dr. Winston De La Haye)
  • Psychopharmacology of Cannabis (Professor Henry Lowe)
  • Cannabis and the Drug Court (Mr. Michael Tucker, National Council on Drug Abuse)
  • Medical Ethics: ‘Drug Use in Medical Professionals’ (Dr. Aggrey Irons)


CME credits (including ethics): Five (5) Hours

 

Cost: Early Registration - $2500, On-Site Registration - $3000, Students - $1,500
Fees include coffee break, lunch and conference material

 

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Venue: 
Faculty of Medical Science Teaching & Research Complex
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Contact Information
Sherane Peart, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI)
Tel: 
927-2492 or 927-1620-9 ext. 2234

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