Providing care for patients with psychotic disorders is both an art and a science. In this presentation, Dr. Keshavan will provide:

1. An overview of approaches to providing care for patients with early course psychosis. This includes developing a therapeutic alliance, sharing diagnosis and disease understanding with the patients and families, and using shared decision making. 
2. Principles of psychopharmacological management of psychotic disorders will be discussed 
3. Approaches to psychotherapy of early cause psychosis patients will be discussed. 

Presenter: Dr. Keshavan is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Harvard Medical School (HMS), a position he assumed in April 2008. He is also the academic head of psychiatry at BIDMC, and a senior psychiatric advisor for the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Since September 2017, he serves as the Director of the Commonwealth Research Center at BIDMC. Since October 2019, he has assumed the position of Academic Chair of the BIDMC Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Keshavan is closely involved in research in neurobiology of psychosis, especially as it pertains to first episode psychotic disorders. His research has resulted in over 700 publications to date, including over 550 peer-reviewed papers, and 4 books. He is a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Canada; and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. Dr. Keshavan is the Editor-in-Chief of Schizophenia Research (Elsevier) and serves on the editorial board for journals such as Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Bipolar disorder and Asian J psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Keshavan is often invited to speak at national and international conferences. He has several funded grants. His main areas of research include the neurodevelopmental basis of schizophrenia, neuroimaging, biomarkers and early intervention. He teaches HMS medical students and residents, and co-directs the neuroscience, critical thinking, and public psychiatry courses for Harvard BIDMC residents.