Mental Health in Clinical Practice
The Gap, the Physiology, and the Path Forward
A free preview of the Mental Health Summit
Depression and anxiety affect a significant share of patients in every practice setting, yet most do not reach remission on first-line treatment. This opening session looks at where conventional care stalls, and at the physiologic contributors that symptom-only diagnosis misses.
Doors open in
Takes about 30 seconds · No card required
Friday, October 30 · 3:00–4:00 PM ET
60 minutes, live on Zoom
Pharmacists, NPs, PAs & physicians
Learning objectives
What you’ll be able to do
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
Describe current prevalence, treatment-response, and remission data for depression and anxiety disorders
Identify physiologic contributors to mood, anxiety, and attention symptoms that symptom-only diagnosis may miss — including inflammatory, metabolic, nutrient, hormonal, microbiome, circadian, and medication-related factors
Outline a sequenced integrative clinical approach that moves from medication review and laboratory assessment to targeted intervention and safe medication management
Recognize red flags requiring urgent psychiatric evaluation and define referral thresholds for non-psychiatric clinicians
The full program
The Mental Health Summit
Functional and Integrative Approaches to Mood, Anxiety, and Attention Disorders
This kickoff opens an eleven-session program that moves from mechanism through medication review, laboratory assessment, and pharmacogenomics, into intervention, safe psychotropic deprescribing, and worked clinical cases. A live kickoff, four hours of on-demand sessions, and two live days.
14.0
Accredited hours
11
Sessions
8
Faculty
Program schedule
Live kickoff · Friday, October 30 · 1.0 hour
1. Mental Health in Clinical Practice
3:00 – 4:00 PM ET · Hartzler · 60 min
This session. Free and open to all.
On demand · Watch anytime · 4.0 hours
2. Biochemical Drivers of Anxiety and Depression
Guilliams · 90 min
3. Circadian Rhythm and Mental Health
Morrison · 60 min
4. ADHD Across the Lifespan
Hartzler · 90 min
Bonus: Nutrition for Mental Health
Zakaria · 90 min · non-CE, not counted in the 14.0
Live day 1 · Friday, November 13 · 4.5 hours
5. SAMe and Methylated B Vitamins in Mental Health
12:00 – 1:00 PM ET · Bottiglieri · 60 min
6. Read the Med List First
1:15 – 2:15 PM ET · Farooqi · 60 min
7. Complete Mental Health Laboratory Assessment, Part 1
2:30 – 4:00 PM ET · Hartzler · 90 min
8. Pharmacogenomics and Nutrigenomics in Mental Health
4:15 – 5:15 PM ET · Yu · 60 min
Live day 2 · Friday, November 20 · 4.5 hours
9. Complete Mental Health Laboratory Assessment, Part 2
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET · Hartzler · 90 min
10. First, Do No Harm on the Way Out
1:45 – 3:15 PM ET · Farooqi · 90 min
11. Clinical Cases: Anxiety and Depression
3:30 – 5:00 PM ET · Goldstein · 90 min
Faculty: Melody Hartzler, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, ABAAHP · Thomas Guilliams, PhD · Megan Morrison, PharmD · Teodoro Bottiglieri, PhD · Mariya Farooqi, PharmD · Cynthia Yu, PharmD · Everest Goldstein, NP · Lara Zakaria, PharmD, MS, CNS, CDN, IFMCP
Enrollment in the full summit is $429.
14.0 accredited hours, plus the 1.5-hour non-CE bonus session.
Please note: this kickoff session is free and open to all as a preview. Enduring CE is awarded only to learners enrolled in the full paid program, where this session counts toward the 14.0 accredited enduring hours. Enrollees will receive the on-demand recording.
Your speaker
Dr. Melody Hartzler
PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, ABAAHP · Clinical Pharmacist & Metabolic Specialist
Dr. Hartzler leads four of the summit’s eleven sessions — this kickoff, ADHD Across the Lifespan, and both halves of the laboratory assessment.
About this session
What we’ll cover
We open with the data: current prevalence of depression and anxiety, how many patients respond to first-line treatment, how many actually reach remission, and the specific points where conventional care stalls.
From there we map the physiologic contributors that a symptom-only diagnosis will not surface: inflammatory, immune, and gut-brain mechanisms; medications that cause psychiatric presentations; metabolic, nutrient, hormonal, and microbiome findings; pharmacogenomics; SAMe and methylated B vitamins; circadian rhythm; safe psychotropic deprescribing; and ADHD across the lifespan. Each one previews a later session in the summit.
We will end with red flags that mean a presentation needs urgent psychiatric evaluation, and clear referral thresholds for clinicians who are not psychiatrists.
Reserve your spot
Friday, October 30, 2026 · 3:00–4:00 PM ET · Free to attend
