RDS-Summit Inaugural Reward Deficiency Syndrome Summit Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) in the 21st Century: Epigenetics, Neurogenetic, Neuroimaging Tools for Therapy and Recovery Sponsors November 16-18, 2015 San Francisco, USA Program at Glance November 16, 2015 @ SIERRA B 08:30-09:00 Registrations 09:00-09:30 Introduction to the Reward Deficiency Syndrome Summit 09:30-12:20 Keynote Session I 12:20-17:00 Scientific Session I 17:00-18:00 Special Evening Movie I November 17, 2015 @ SIERRA B 09:00-10:40 Keynote Session II 11:00-15:40 Scientific Session II 16:00-17:00 Special Evening Movie II November 18, 2015 @ SIERRA B 09:30-11:30 Scientific Session III DAY 1 Monday, November 16, 2015 Keynote Session I @ SIERRA B Keynote Session I : 09:30-12:20 09:30-09:55 09:55-10:20 Kenneth Blum David E. Smith University of Florida, USA University of California at San Francisco, USA Presentation on: “Dopamine Resistance” in Brain Presentation on: Process Addictions and Addiction Reward Circuitry as a Function of Genetic Addiction Transfer Risk Score (Garspdx) Polymorphisms in RDS: Synaptamine Complex Variant (Kb220z) Induced “Dopamine Sensitivity” as a Pro-recovery Agent David E. Smith is recognized as a national leader in the treatment of addictive disease, the psychopharmacology of drugs, new research Kenneth Blum is widely designated as Father strategies in the management of drug abuse of Psychiatric Genetics because of the DRD2 problems, and appropriate prescribing practices gene and its correlation with various psychiatric for physicians. He teaches that addiction is a disorders including the “Reward Deficiency primary medical illness which is best treated in Syndrome (RDS)” which term he has coined. He a multidisciplinary fashion, utilizing the group is also known as the “Father of Neuro-Nutrient process and the 12-Step programs of Alcoholics Therapy” for his discovery of successful nutrient Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine therapy for RDS. He holds numerous domestic and Anonymous. He lectures on the management foreign patents and is co-founder and Chairman & of psychoactive drug dependence, including Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of LifeGen Inc. He cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs. He also is a former Full Professor in the Department of speaks on the subjects of impaired and recovering Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science clinicians, substance abuse in the workplace, Center, San Antonio, Texas; Volunteer Professor in dual diagnosis disorders, and substance abuse the Department of Psychiatry & McKnight Brain and the criminal justice system, among many Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, other topics. He provides medical review of DOT Gainesville, Florida and Adjunct Full Professor of and private industry drug testing and prescription Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College drug plans, and legal consultation. Dr. Smith of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont. He currently founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in 1967, serves as Neuroscience advisor for Dominion inaugurating the principle of “Health Care is a Diagnostics LLC, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, Right, not a Privilege”. He has served on federal, Malibu Beach Recovery Center, Malibu Beach state and local bodies addressing substance use, California, and is the Scientific Director of PATH abuse and treatment, and has received numerous Foundation, New York. He is an honorary Faculty awards, including the 2013 Peter E. Haas Award of IIOAB, India. He has been recently appointed from the University of California Berkeley. He CSO of G&G Holistic Addiction Treatment Centers lectures extensively and is the author/co-author in North Miami Beach Florida. To his credit he has of over 360 professional articles and books, over 400 publications in peer reviewed journals, 14 including Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking books and has received many awards including the Addictions that Steal Your Life, with Dr. Daniel a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Amen. Institute of Holistic Addiction Studies. RDS Summit | Nov 16-18, 2015 | San Francisco, USA 3 DAY 1 Monday, November 16, 2015 Keynote Session I @ SIERRA B 10:20-10:45 11:05-11:30 David Baron Panayotis K. Thanos Keck School of Medicine at USC, USA University of Buffalo, USA Presentation on: Reward Deficiency Syndrome in Presentation on: Dopamine D2, Obesity and Sports Psychiatry Reward Deficiency Syndrome David Baron is currently Professor and Vice Chair, Panayotis K. Thanos is interested in translational and Chief of Psychiatry at University Hospital at the research utilizing various rodent models of Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern psychopathology to better understand the California. Dr. Baron is also the Director of the mechanisms involved in substance use disorders Global Center for Exercise, Psychiatry and Sport (SUD) and addiction including the role of at USC and Chairman of the Section on Exercise, dopamine signaling, genes, environment, as well Psychiatry and Sport for the World Psychiatric brain circuit mapping and connectivity changes in Association/World Health Organization. He is food, drug and alcohol abuse. Dr. Thanos is the also a current member of the Executive Board of Director of the Behavioral Neuropharmacology Directors for the International Society of Sports and Neuroimaging Lab and has authored more Psychiatrists and the 2010 Consumer Council than 85 peer reviewed articles on reward and of America “Top Doc” for Sport Psychiatry. Dr. addiction. Baron is the former Deputy Clinical Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Chair of the Department Psychiatry at the NIH graduate school 1989-1997 and Temple University (1998- 2010). He developed, and holds the copyright on the only validated depression screener specifical for athletes (BDSA), which is currently in use in over 7 countries. He has over 30 years of clinical experience in sports medicine and sports psychiatry and has worked with athletes of all ages and levels of competition including NCAA, Olympic, and professional. He has published over 130 peer reviewed publications and presented over 300 scientific presentations in the US and over 30 invited international talks, many in the area of Doping in Sports and Depression, Drug Use and Concussion in athletes. His current clinical and research interests are in the neuropsychiatric sequel of recurrent sub-clinical concussion and TBI in athletes, specifically focused on developing more sensitive, user-friendly screening instruments and methods, and increasing public awareness of this growing problem. Coffee Break: 10:45-11:05 RDS Summit | Nov 16-18, 2015 | San Francisco, USA 4 DAY 1 Monday, November 16, 2015 Keynote Session I @ SIERRA B 11:30-11:55 11:55-12:20 Peter Banys John J. Giordano University of California at San Francisco, USA National Institute For Holistic Addiction Studies, USA Presentation on: The Evolving Landscape of Presentation on: Comprehensive Holistic Approaches International Drug Policy Reforms and Cannabis in Addiction Medicine Legalization in California In his 35-year career at VA/UCSF, Dr. Banys John J. Giordano is the former president and has developed two addiction fellowships, has founder of the prestigious G & G Holistic Addiction engaged in direct clinical care, research, and Treatment Center, a 62 bed in-patient/out-patient teaching of UCSF psychiatry residents and JACHO accredited addiction treatment facility. He substance abuse physician fellows. Most recently is a therapist, a Certified Addiction Professional he spent 2½ years living and working in Hanoi to (CAP), a Master Addictions Counselor (MAC), assist in scaling up methadone programs and to and a Certified Criminal Justice Specialist (CCJS). develop community screenings for depression. He He also earned a Masters Certification in Neuro is a section co-editor (Special Problems) for the linguistics Programming (NLP), and is a Certified 2014 edition of the ASAM Textbook of Addiction Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Medicine. He is a member of Lt. Governor Gavin (EMDR) Specialist and a professional expert Newsom’s Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on witness for the state and federal government. marijuana law reform, and has written a series of He is also a Karate Grand Master 10th degree marijuana reform-related briefings available on black belt. He is also certified in Traditional Indian the BRC and CSAM websites. Medicine as well as Mindfulness and Powerful Mind-Body Awareness Therapy Skills. Most recently, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mount Sinai University. His Influential book, Proven Holistic Treatment for Addiction & Chronic Relapse, is being utilized by several state hospitals and numerous treatment centers across the country. RDS Summit | Nov 16-18, 2015 | San Francisco, USA 5 DAY 1 Monday, November 16, 2015 Scientific Session I @ SIERRA B: 12:20-17:00 Substance Abuse David E. Smith, University of California at San Francisco, USA Session Chairs: Dieter J. Meyerhoff, University of California at San Francisco, USA Presentation on: Polysubstance Use and Brain Function. Why Bother? Dieter J. Meyerhoff, University of California at San Francisco, USA 12:20-12:40 Presentation on: Interactions Between Methamphetamine and Stress: A Dangerous Combination Bryan K. Yamamoto, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA 12:40-13:00 Presentation on: Mental Health and Substance Use Correlates in a Population Sample of Canadian Adults with and Without a History of Traumatic Brain Injuries Gabriela Ilie, St.