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Conference to target mental illness  The Treating Mental Illness in Primary Care Settings conference will be held Jan.  26 - 27 at Hilton OceanFront Resort, Hilton Head Island. Registration deadline is Nov. 29.   The conference will help primary care physicians to better recognize, understand and treat psychiatric illnesses such as mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders.   Starting with the fundamental experience of mental illness described by patients and families, the course will cover the shifting standard of care with newer medications and will include cutting edge data on metabolic syndrome and the medical problems of people who live with mental illness.   The conference chairman, Anand Pandya, M.D., is director of Inpatient Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He is president of the National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI) national board of directors, and is the co-founder of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach, a charity that provides psychiatric care in the wake of disasters. Pandya also serves on the New Research Subcommittee for the American Psychiatric Association Scientific Program Committee.   Jointly sponsored by MUSC’s Institute of Psychiatry andNAMI, the nation’s largest family/consumer support and advocacy organization for mental illness, expert faculty representing MUSC and NAMI will provide a diverse view of the treatment of mental illness in primary care settings.   For additional information, contact Liz Puca at 792-0192 or pucalm@musc.edu. Also, visit http://www.muschealth.com/psychevents.     Friday, Nov. 23, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.