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Reconsidering Antidepressants: Efficacy, Withdrawal and Safely Stopping

Funding provided by pharmaceutical companies including a sponsored session over break time.
Dr Horowitz's sessions are completely independent of external sponsorship.

Thursday 14th November 2024
Start Time: 19:30
Finish Time: 21:30
Introducing your speaker
Dr Mark Horowitz
Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Visiting Lecturer in Psychopharmacology at King's College London
Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at University College London
Trainee Psychiatrist

All delegates will receive

  • A PDF of the main speaker’s slides available for download for delegates' personal use
  • A certifcate for your appraisal portfolio
Course Accredited for 2 hours CPD
Your Learning Agenda

Objectives:  

  • How effective are antidepressants?
  • How do they work? 
  • When should antidepressants be stopped? 
  • What are the risks of stopping them rapidly? 
  • How to distinguish between withdrawal effects and a relapse of an underlying condition 
  • The safest approach to stopping antidepressants based on the latest evidence (NICE, RCPsych, the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines)
  • How to safely stop benzodiazepines, z-drugs and gabapentinoids
Meet the Speaker
Dr Mark Horowitz

Dr Mark Horowitz MBBS PhD is Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), Visiting Lecturer in Psychopharmacology at King’s College London, an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at University College London and a trainee psychiatrist. He has a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London in the neurobiology of depression and antidepressant action. He is the lead author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines and is an associate editor of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.

He co-authored the recent Royal College of Psychiatrists’ guidance on ‘Stopping Antidepressants’, and his work informed the recent NICE guidelines on safe tapering of psychiatric medications, including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and z-drugs. He has worked with the NHS to develop national guidance for safe deprescribing for clinicians and has been commissioned by Health Education England to prepare a teaching module on how to safely stop antidepressants.

He has written several papers about safe approaches to tapering psychiatric medications including publications in The Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry and Schizophrenia Bulletin. He has an interest in rational psychopharmacology and deprescribing psychiatric medication. He has experienced the difficulty of coming off psychiatric medications first hand which has informed much of his work.

Dr Mark Horowitz
Event Timings and Info
19:30 - 20:15 Session 1

20:15 - 20:45 Sponsored Symposium

20:45 - 21:30 Session 2 (including Q&A)

21:30 Webinar Ends

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