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Aurora District Leadership Event

Location: Grace UMC, 300 E. Gartner Rd., Naperville, IL

Depression - Beyond the Stigma

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Date: March 3, 2018
Time: 8:30 am - 11:45 am

Speaker: Dr. Martha E. Crotts, MD


Schedule:

8:30 am - Registration (light refreshments)
9 am - Session 1: What Depression Is and Isn't
10:20-10:40 - Break
10:45-11:45 am - Session 2: How to Recognize Depression/What Steps Can Be Taken

About the Speaker:

Dr. Martha Crotts is a practicing Board Certified psychiatrist with a specialization in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as adult psychiatry. Dr. Crotts graduated from Southern Il University Medical School, interned and completed residency at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine and completed a fellowship in psychiatry at the University of Chicago.

Over the 27+ years of Dr. Crotts career, she has written numerous articles, been Clinical Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois School of Medicine-Rockford; Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Medical Director of Substance Abuse Treatment Program, and Chief of Inpatient Psychiatry Services, Rockford Memorial Hospital, Rockford, Illinois.

Dr. Crotts currently has a flourishing private practice in Rockford, IL.

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