Eleven years ago I was a thesis shy of a Master's Degree from the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. With a baby in my belly and the early stages of bipolar beginning to surface, the Universe removed me from academia and put me into unchartered waters of entrepreneurship, economic empowerment and black activism. The cosmos and I have been battling ever since. :) It's been one test after another ... some I have passed, most I have not... and on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 11am, I will be closing a chapter opened for me over a decade ago. My Master's Thesis Project "Holistic Psychiatric Information Technology: A Decision Support System for Mood and Personality Disorders" is my attempt to bring together multiple disciplines to talk about the dirty little hidden secrets shrouded by the label "mentally ill." I unapologetically embrace my mental illness, newly diagnosed as schizoassociative personality disorder, which is part environmental, part genetics and a whole lot of spiritual co-mingling. It is my rarely understood, rarely embraced genius. And I (and/or forces greater than me) have placed me out front, on the battlefield, to generate in depth discussion on what mental illness is, what it's not and how it can be managed both internal and external of Western, Eurocentric paradigms. With support from the Graduate Consortium of Engineering Minorities, the American Association of University Women, Rema Padman and Umar Abdullah Johnson, you are cordially invited to attend. I suspect this is the beginning of something extraordinary... Friday, December 9, 2011, 11:00 AM Online: http://slideshare.net/drbrettagrant/meeting/live Conference Call: 213.406.8555 Participant Code 752# Video: Uploaded http://www.youtube.com/user/drBrettaGrant approximately December 19, 2011 Mobile: m.slideshare.net

1. Holistic Psychiatric Information Technology A Decision Support System for Mood and Personality Disorders Sirbrittie C.L. Grant Fall 2011 The Information Networking Institute is a cooperative endeavor of: College of Engineering School of Computer Science Tepper School of Business Heinz College

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