ISTSS 25th Annual Meeting
November 5-7, 2009
Westin Peachtree Plaza
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Note: The ISTSS Program Committee will complete its abstract selection process by early July. Author notifications will be sent in mid-July.

This November, ISTSS will hold its 25th Silver Anniversary Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Themed, Traumatic Stress Disorders: Toward DSM-V and ICD-11, the meeting will provide an opportunity to celebrate the society’s many contributions to the field of traumatic stress studies and a chance to consider where the field is headed.

Join us at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-7, 2009.Pre-Meeting Institutes will be held November 4.

Registration will be available in July!

Plan to attend the ISTSS Saturday Evening Celebration!
When making your travel and hotel arrangements, be sure to plan to stay overnight Saturday to take part in the 25th Silver Anniversary celebration as ISTSS honors past and current leadership.

ISTSS 25th Silver Anniversary Keynote Address

Redesigning PTSD With Empirical Data: Implications for DSM-V

Darrel Regier, MD, MPH
Executive Director, American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education and Director, Division of Research, American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, Virginia, USA

The overarching goal of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DSM-V) is to present the most valid and clinically useful diagnostic classification system to date. The DSM-V Task Force and Work Group members are especially mindful of cross-cutting dimensional factors that are not included in existing diagnostic criteria for all diagnoses including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder (ASD). Of particular interest will be establishing a “living document” framework for incorporating new etiologic information on gene-environment (traumatic exposure) interactions that will guide future revisions of the DSM-V.