11^th Annual Meeting of the SLTBR Preliminary Program Sunday, May 16, 1999 to Tuesday, May 18, 1999 Old Town Holiday Inn Select, 480 King Street Alexandria, VA (outside Washington, DC)
Sunday, May 16 1:00 to 5:30 pm	CME Course (Presented with the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine) Clinical Guidelines for Light and Drug Treatment of SAD, Nonseasonal Depression, & Circadian Rhythm Disorders.
12:00 to 1:00 pm 1:00 to 1:10 pm 1:10 - 2:00 pm	Annual Meeting and CME Course Registration. Introduction. Raymond W. Lam, MD. Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of seasonal affective disorder. Anthony J. Levitt, MD, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2:00 - 2:30 pm 2:30 - 3:15 pm	Questions and Answers Melatonin treatment guidelines for winter depression and chronobiological disorders. Alfred J. Lewy, MD, PhD., Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA.
3:15 - 3:30 pm 3:30 - 4:00 pm	Questions and Answers Coffee, Meet the Speakers
4:00 - 4:30 pm	When to use light treatment for nonseasonal major depression. Daniel F. Kripke, MD, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
4:30 - 5:00 pm	Light therapy for bulimia nervosa and premenstrual depression. Raymond W. Lam, MD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
5:00 - 5:30 pm 5:30 - 5:45 pm	Panel Questions and Answers Course Evaluations and end of CME course
5:45 - 7:30 pm	Welcome Reception, Research Posters Exhibit and Discussion Norman E. Rosenthal, MD, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Monday, May 17
8:00 - 9:00 am 8:30 - 9:00 am 9:00 - 10:15 am 10:15 - 11:00 am 11:00 - 12:15 pm 12:15 - 1:15 pm 1:15 - 2:00 pm 2:00 - 2:10 pm	Research Posters, Corporate Exhibits, Continental Breakfast Annual Meeting Registration Oral Paper Session 1 (5 speakers) Coffee Break, Research Posters, Corporate Exhibits Oral Paper Session 2 (5 speakers) Lunch (on your own) Research Posters, Corporate Exhibits & SLTBR Business Meeting SLTBR Young Investigator Award
2:10 - 3:00 pm	Keynote lecture and discussion. Light therapy for nonseasonal and seasonal depression: a new meta-analysis. Christopher Thompson, MD, University of Southampton, England.
3:00 - 3:15 pm 3:15 - 5:30 pm	Break, Research Posters Symposium in honor of Norman Rosenthal's career at NIMH. Seasonality around the world: Research updates and reflections on the contributions of the NIMH Psychobiology Branch. Fred Goodwin, MD, Georgetown University, USA; Siegfried Kasper, MD, University of Vienna, Austria; Bengt Kjellman, MD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Masako Okawa, MD, NIMH, Japan; Susan Swedo, MD, NIMH, USA; Thomas Wehr, MD, NIMH, USA; Anna Wirz-Justice, PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland.
7:00 pm	Cocktails and Banquet
Tuesday, May 18
8:00 - 9:00 am 9:00 - 10:00 am 10:00 - 10:50 am	Research Posters, Corporate Exhibits, Continental Breakfast Oral Paper Session 3 (4 speakers) First Annual ALPCO/Bühlmann Distinguished Lecturer Presentation Retinal gene expression, cell death, and the spectral distribution of visible light. Charlotte E. Remé, MD, PhD. University of Zurich, Switzerland.
10:50 - 11:15 am 11:15 -12:00 noon	Research Posters, Corporate Exhibits, Coffee Break Oral Paper Session 4 (4 speakers) SLTBR 11^th Annual Meeting Ends