Keynote Speakers
The thirteenth annual conference of the University of Louisville Depression Center, November 7-8, 2019 will feature leading experts on the practical application of scientific findings in solving difficult clinical problems. Keynote presentations and interactive workshops will be given by:
Linda Carter Sobell, PhD
President’s Distinguished Professor, and Co-Director, Healthy Lifestyles Guided Self-Change Program College of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University
Linda Carter Sobell, PhD, a leading expert in motivational interviewing, will begin the conference with a public talk on Thursday evening, November 7, “Could You Improve Your Communication Skills? Learning How to Talk with Someone Close To You.“ Her keynote presentation at the all day conference on Friday, November 8 will be, “Using Motivational Interviewing to Help Patients Explore and Resolve Ambivalence to Change,” and she will offer a breakout workshop on “Motivational Interviewing: An Empathic, Nonjudgmental Style of Communicating with Patients.”
Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.
Arizona State University Foundation Professor and Director
ASU Center for Evolution and Medicine
Dr. Nesse's most recent book is “Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry.” Dr. Nesse’s keynote presentation, “Why does depression exist at all? Evolution and the origins of mood,” will show participants how to analyze the kinds of life situations that escalate ordinary low mood into clinical depression. His afternoon workshop is titled “How an evolutionary understanding of emotions can improve depression treatment.”
Susan L. McElroy, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Chief Research Officer, Lindner Center of HOPE, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Dr. McElroy is internationally known for her research in bipolar disorder, eating disorders, obesity, and pharmacology. As Chief Research Officer at the Lindner Center, she oversees multiple studies in mood, anxiety, eating and impulse control disorders, genetics and psychopharmacology. Her keynote presentation will be “Pharmacotherapy of Binge Eating,” and she will present “Pharmacotherapy of Obesity in Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders” at her afternoon workshop.