Earlier this year, APA launched a new journal, FOCUS, The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, whose purpose is to help psychiatrists stay up to date on the latest information on a wide range of psychiatric disorders and maintain board certification. To complement the journal, a new format, appropriately titled “Focus Life,” has been added to the annual meeting program.

This format is composed of two sessions on the same topics covered, respectively, in the first two issues of FOCUS. The first “Focus Live” session, which deals with bipolar disorder, will be held on Tuesday, May 20, at 9 a.m. in room 106 on the exhibit level of the Moscone Center. The second session, on substance abuse, will be held that same day in the same location at 11 a.m. Both will be cochaired by Deborah Hales, M.D., director of APA’s Division of Education, Minority, and National Affairs, and Mark H. Rapaport, M.D.