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Grand Rounds: AAFP POEMs: Antidepressant Dose – Start Low, Stay Low

Event Details:

Overview:

During this presentation Zachary Aybar, MD and Carolina Gutierrez Garcia, MD will examine antidepressant dosing. They will demonstrate that in fixed-dose antidepressant trials, the lower range of the licensed dose achieves the optimal balance between efficacy and tolerability. They will also discuss whether flexible upward titration provides additional benefits as well as identify antidepressants for which flexible titration is more efficacious than fixed dose.

Objectives:

• Demonstrate that lower range of antidepressant achieves optimal balance between efficacy and tolerability.
• Discuss whether flexible upward titration provides additional benefits.
• Identify antidepressants for which flexible titration is more efficacious than fixed dose.

Financial Disclosures:

Carolina Gutierrez Garcia, MD, Zachary Aybar, MD, and their faculty preceptor Cristian Fernandez Falcon, MD have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, Yun Shi, MD, Mark Nadeau, MD, Marcy Wiemers, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD, Margaret Finley, MD, Richel Avery, MD, Lauren Fuller, MD, Jeff Svec, MD, Oralia Bazaldua, PharmD and Nichole Rubio) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine  
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations. 

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:

Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact:

Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu