NPA 18th Annual Psychopharmacology Update
February 13-17, 2013
Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino | Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday, February 15, 2013 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Diagnosing Sexual Disorders and Pharmacological Treatment
Fred S. Berlin, MD
Fred S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D., has been educated at a variety of centers including McGill University in Canada and the Maudsley Institute in England. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an Attending Physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is also the Founder of The Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic and the Director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma. That program has been designated by the United States Department of Justice as a national resource site.
As a consequence of his work with sexual disorders, he has been invited to address a White House Conference on Childhood Sexual Abuse; the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee of the United States Senate; various seminars sponsored by the United States Department of Justice; a Special Invited Conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences; a number of educational seminars conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Colleges of Judges in several states. He has also served as an invited member of the Cardinals’ Commission for the Protection of Children in Boston, Massachusetts, and as a consultant to the European Parliament. He has written numerous professional publications, and he has performed peer reviews for a number of professional journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He has been the recipient of a contract from the National Institute of Mental Health to prepare an annotated bibliography on sex offender etiology and treatment, and of a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to study the activity of brain neurotransmitters during sexual arousal. He was also a member of the subcommittee on the paraphilias (the sexual deviation disorders) for the 3rd revision of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. For a list of other speakers: ..Source..
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