DSM-V Research Planning Conference Summaries
A Steering Committee headed by Darrel Regier, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE) is orchestrating the series of research planning conferences. Members of the Steering Committee include representatives of the three NIH funding institutes (Mercedes Rubio, Ph.D. and Michael Kozak, Ph.D., NIMH; Wilson Compton, M.D., M.P.E., NIDA; and Bridget Grant, Ph.D. NIAAA), Michael B. First, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University and consultant to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual activities (DSM), and Norman Sartorius, M.D., Ph.D. representing Benedetto Saraceno, M.D. of the World Health Organization (WHO).
For each of the scheduled conferences, the Steering Committee has recruited a pair of co-chairs--in virtually every case these leadership positions are shared by a leading U.S. expert in a given diagnostic area and a distinguished investigator in the same field from a country other than the U.S. In turn, the co-chairs have collaborated with members of the Steering Committee in identifying and recruiting a Core Working Group for each conference. Each Core Working Group will assume lead responsibility for planning detailed conference programs, recruiting the approximately 20 presenters and discussants who will participate in each conference, generating resources such as literature reviews, ensuring timely production of a “proceedings” for each session, monitoring relevant research results that become available over the next four years, and then providing a summary of such research that will be made available to the DSM-V Work Groups once they are convened in 2007.
Below, you will find the summaries of all Research Planning conferences held to date.