Course Overview

In this five-module accredited course, led by Dr. James Greenblatt & Dr. Ana Ivkovic, clinicians of all specialties will become adept in identifying and assessing the biological abnormalities—nutritional, metabolic, and environmental factors—that underlie the diagnosis of depression in patients. Employing a model of functional medicine, you will learn the diagnostic tests you should be running on patients, the role key nutrients play in maintaining neurological health, and biologic treatment protocols that can be easily incorporated into your practice. You’ll gain specific treatment strategies and a solid roadmap for helping to prevent and treat depression.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:

  • Critique the limitations of the conventional psychopharmacological model for depression
  • Describe the key pathophysiological drivers of depression from a functional medicine perspective, including nutritional deficiencies, inflammation and metabolic abnormalities
  • Select appropriate functional lab tests to identify underlying root causes of depression
  • Formulate a personalized, integrative treatment plan for depression that incorporates targeted nutritional supplementation and lifestyle interventions
  • Assess the impact of common clinical scenarios on nutrient status and mood

Course Curriculum

    1. Learning Path & Getting Started

    2. Course Overview & Learning Objectives

    3. Faculty Bio: Dr. James Greenblatt

    4. Faculty Bio: Dr. Ana Ivkovic

    5. Accreditation Overview

    1. Module 1: Overview, Diet & Celiac Disease

    2. Module 2: Macronutrients

    3. Module 3: Vitamins

    4. Module 4: Minerals

    5. Module 5: Supplements & Testing

    1. Obtaining CME Credit & Your Certificate

About this course

  • $340.00
  • 11 lessons
  • 4 hours of video content

Instructors

James Greenblatt, MD

Founder, Chief Medical Officer

James Greenblatt, MD, is is a pioneer in functional and integrative psychiatry and a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist who has been treating patients since 1988. He serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. An internationally recognized speaker on nutritional interventions in mental health, Dr. Greenblatt has authored seven books, including the best-sellers Finally Focused and Answers to Anorexia, as well as his latest, Functional & Integrative Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal. In 2019, Dr. Greenblatt founded Psychiatry Redefined, the leading educational platform designed to transform psychiatric care through integrative, personalized and evidence-based approaches to treatment. Psychiatry Redefined bridges critical knowledge gaps for mental health professionals, providing a new hope for mental health care.

Ana Ivkovic, MD

Ana Ivkovic MD is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical interests center on psychiatric disorders in patients with medical illness and the role of nutrition and other lifestyle variables on brain health. She has authored multiple book chapters and articles related to mental health and is the co-author of The Science of Stress (University of Chicago Press, 2016) where she outlines the role of nutrition on brain health and the impact of stress on women’s mental health. She has studied with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the School of Applied Functional Medicine. As a clinician, Ana has seen firsthand the lifesaving potential of psychiatric medications and fully appreciates medications are frequently an important part of one’s recovery. However, she is also keenly aware of the limitations of this approach, which can far-too-often feel like an uphill battle when key upstream, multifactorial contributors to mood and anxiety symptoms are not addressed.