Saturday, October 20th, 2018

8:15-9:00	Registration
9:00- 9:15	Introduction to Multidisciplinary Psychosomatic Care Alla Landa, PhD Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
9:15-9:55	Bodily Distress Syndrome or Functional Somatic Syndromes: How to diagnose and treat Per Fink, MD, Dr.Med.Sc., PhD Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
9:55-10:35	Multidisciplinary Stepped Care Guidelines on Functional and Somatic Symptom Disorders: A report from Germany Peter Henningsen, MD University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Germany
10:35-11:15	Principles of Psychosomatic Integrative Care: Towards a neuroscience-based paradigm shift in medicine Alla Landa, PhD Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
11:15-11:30	COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
11:30-12:10	Biopsychosocial Understanding and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders Douglas A. Drossman, MD University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
12:10-12:50	Advances in Psychocardiology: Integrative care for patients with heart disease Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, MD University of Göttingen Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany
12:50-1:30	Where Body Meets Mind in Late-Stage Lyme Disease Jenifer Nields, MD Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
1:30-2:20	LUNCH (Served in the Kolb Atrium)
2:20-3:50	Workshops with Conference Faculty (participants choose one to attend): Communication Skills to Optimize the Patient-Provider Interaction Among Patients with GI Disorders Douglas Drossman, MD University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Overcoming Challenges in Implementing Psychosomatic Care for Patients with Heart Disease Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, MD University of Göttingen Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany How to Treat Functional Disorders in Primary Care and General Medical Hospitals: A brief introduction to a training program for family physicians and other medical doctors Per Fink, MD, Dr.Med.Sc., PhD Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Engaging a Patient with Somatic Symptom Disorder in Psychosomatic Treatment: From medical office to specialized psychosomatic care Harald Guendel, MD, University of Ulm, Germany Peter Henningsen, MD, University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Germany Alla Landa, PhD, Columbia University and NYSPI, New York, NY, USA Somatic Symptom Disorder Differential Diagnosis: What not to miss Jenifer Nields, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA Brian Fallon, MD, MPH, MED, Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
3:50-4:05	COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
4:05-4:45	Medication vs. Psychotherapy: Treatment approaches for illness anxiety Brian Fallon, MD, MPH, MED Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
4:45-5:30	Panel discussion with all presenters
5:30-6:30	Conference Reception

Sunday, October 21th, 2018

10:00-10:40	Comanaged Care for Medical Inpatients: Consultation-liaison psychiatry or consultation/liaison psychiatry? Philip R. Muskin, MD, MA Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
10:40-11:20	Somatic Symptoms and Beginning Psychological Disturbances at the Workplace: Early prevention, diagnosis, and treatment Harald Guendel, MD University of Ulm, Germany
11:20-12:00	Stress, Depression, Heart Disease Peter A. Shapiro, MD New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
12:00-12:15	COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
12:15-1:30	Small group discussions of case material (mediated by conference faculty)
1:30-2:20	LUNCH (served in the Kolb Atrium)
2:20-2:50	Panel on presented cases
2:50-3:35	Never Mind: Thinking through the mind/body problem in medicine Siri Hustvedt, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
3:35-4:30	Panel: Implementation of Multidisciplinary Psychosomatic Care All presenters