Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry Selects
PRIMEDIA Healthcare, Producers of psychLINK(TM), for CME Program Development
CARROLLTON, Texas, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- PRIMEDIA Healthcare has teamed
with the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry to develop and
produce a wide range of continuing education programs including symposia,
satellite broadcasts, teleconferences and enduring materials. PRIMEDIA
Healthcare will also provide accreditation, administrative and other services.
The MGH Department of Psychiatry has been ranked #1 by U.S. News and World
Report for eight consecutive years and is led by the premier faculty of
clinician-researchers in psychiatry today. Shawn Whalen Shinn, V.P. and
General Manager of PRIMEDIA Healthcare Services stated, "Mass General and its
faculty are widely recognized as the leaders in psychiatric education and we
are proud to be working with them." For more than a decade, PRIMEDIA Healthcare and psychLINK(TM) have been
considered the "gold standard" in psychiatric continuing medical education
broadcasting by professionals who treat patients with mental health disorders. Robert J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director of the Division of
Postgraduate Education, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General
Hospital stated, "We wanted to build upon our decades-long experience of
providing objective, clinically applicable, educational content that
incorporates the latest advances in our field. Thousands of providers come to
Boston each year to attend our courses. Recognizing the increasing demands
that healthcare is placing on the provider we wanted to afford them the
convenience of having our educational content at their disposal in their day-
to-day work environment. Live symposia conducted in their own neighborhoods
and fingertip interactive technology will bring content right into their own
offices and institutions. As the leader in psychiatric research and education,
MGH is pleased to collaborate with PRIMEDIA Healthcare, a leader in psychiatric
CME production and delivery." Faculty members of the MGH Department of Psychiatry join a team led by William
Glazer, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School and MGH.
Dr. Glazer has served as the Moderator and Executive Producer of psychLINK(TM)
for twelve years.
PRIMEDIA Healthcare, a division of PRIMEDIA Education and Training (NYSE:PRM),
improves patient care by educating and training healthcare professionals via
distance learning technologies. PRIMEDIA Healthcare has provided needs-based
continuing education since 1992 and today reaches over 1.8 million healthcare
providers representing 20 disciplines. Visit http://www.pwpl.com/ for more
information. DATASOURCE: PRIMEDIA Healthcare CONTACT: Peter Wilkins of PRIMEDIA, +1-773-281-2550, or ; or Robert J. Birnbaum, M.D. of Massachusetts General Hospital, +1-617-724-6300, or Web site: http://www.pwpl.com/
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