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 , 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.
PRIMEDIA HealthcareCONTACT: Peter Wilkins of PRIMEDIA, +1-773-281-2550, orpwilkins@pwpl.com ; or Robert J. Birnbaum, M.D. of Massachusetts GeneralHospital, +1-617-724-6300, or rjbirnbaum@partners.org
Web site: http://www.pwpl.com/
