Provided by:
Practical Applications in
Forensic Psychiatry
Academic Year 2014-2015
“The Issue of Bias in Forensic Psychiatry”
Tuesday, November11, 2014
10:00am – 12:00pm
3535 Market Street – Room 4123
Clarence Watson, M.D., J.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Solange Margery Bertoglia, M.D., Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Thomas Jefferson University
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D., Private Practice Bala Cynwyd
Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Target Audience
This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, other
health sciences students, nurses, and allied health professionals in the medical specialties of psychiatry, and psychology.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
 Increase knowledge of legal issues involving psychiatric evaluation and care of children and adolescents
 Increase knowledge competence and performance in geriatric forensic assessments
 Increase knowledge and competence related to forensic psychiatric evaluations involving alcoholic and drug
populations
 Improve the quality of forensic psychiatric evaluations, report writing and professional testimony related to
assessing competency
Accreditation
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation of Credit
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support*
NONE
For more information, please contact
Linda Ramos
215-746-7248
lindara@upenn.edu
Check your CME online at www.penncmeonline.com
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products
It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for individuals who are in a position to
control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have
with any commercial interest that provides products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing
medical education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to
include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
The intent of this policy is not to prevent expert faculty with relevant relationship(s) with commercial interest(s) from
involvement in CME, but rather to ensure that Penn CME-certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in
improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and
free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure
information provided to the Penn Office of CME was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest
relative to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically
rigorous and evidence-based presentations.
The staff in the Office of CME at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic,
Director of CME and the peer reviewer Zalman Agus, MD, Associate Dean for CME, have disclosed that they have
no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests
related to the content of this educational activity:
PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBER NAME
ROBERT L. SADOFF, MD
KENNETH J. WEISS, MD
SUSAN RUSHING, MD, JD
ANNIE STEINBERG, MD
HENRY BLEIER, MD
CLARENCE WATSON, MD, JD
PRESENTER NAME
CLARENCE WATSON, MD, JD, SOLANGE MARGERY BERTOGLIA, MD, CLAIRE POUNCEY, MD, PHD, AND ROBERT L. SADOFF, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to
the content of this educational activity.
PRESENTER NAME
NAME OF COMMERCIAL INTEREST
RELATIONSHIP
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royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership
interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as
employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching,
membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received
or expected
DISCLOSURE OF UNAPPROVED USES OF PRODUCTS
PRESENTER NAME
PRODUCT
INVESTIGATIONAL AND/OR OFF-LABEL USE