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ForwardECT Visting Fellowship October 20-24 2025
Target Audience
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Physician
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the fellowship program, the participants should be able to identify the following:
. Clinical indications, relative contraindications, side effects, and adverse risks of ECT.
. Clinical evaluation and management of ECT patients.
. Clinical and technical aspects of ECT administration.
. Techniques in lead placement, stimulus dosing, and seizure monitoring.
. ECT anesthesia procedures.
. Informed consent and legal aspects of ECT.
. Clinical implications for special populations.
. ECT acute maintenance treatment.
. Recent developments in ECT devices.
Additional Information
Tejal Bhojak, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Medical Director, ECT Services Center for Interventional Psychiatry Western Psychiatric Hospital
FACULTY:
Carmen Andreescu, MD, Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Western Psychiatric Hospital
Candice Hart-Bailey, MS-BSN, RN, Unit Director Center for Interventional Psychiatry
Marie Ann Gebara, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Western Psychiatric Hospital
Joshua Knight, MD, FASE, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Lauren Greer, CRNP, Center for Interventional Psychiatry Western Psychiatric Hospital
Audrey Humes, BSN Nurse Clinical Manager Electroconvulsive Therapy Service Western Psychiatric Hospital
Danforth Lincoln, MD, Faculty Clinician Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Varon, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Mark Z. Zacharia, Esq. Assistant Counsel UPMC Corporate Legal Department
Faculty Disclosure
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.
Accreditation and credit designation
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh School designates this live activity for a maximum of 35.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 35.25 contact hours.
Other Healthcare Professionals
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 35.25 AAPA Category I CME
- 35.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 35.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 35.25 Attendance