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October Psychiatry Conference in Rotorua
9 October 2009
Psychiatry conference
Addiction, schizophrenia, suicide, psychosis,
depression, self-harm and early intervention are just some
of the topics which will be discussed at the upcoming Royal
Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ New
Zealand Conference on 14 to 16 October 2009 in Rotorua.
Sessions at the conference will cover a broad range
of psychiatry and mental health issues. Keynote speakers and
experts in psychiatry at the conference include:
*
Professor Norman Sartorius, President of the Association for
the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, a Geneva based
NGO, and expert in schizophrenia, depression and health
service delivery, Usefulness and limits of considering
cultural variation in the practice of psychiatry, Wednesday
14 October 11.15am
* Professor Robert Robinson, Head
of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa and
expert in psychiatry and neurology, aged psychiatry and
psychosomatic medicine, Psychiatry of stroke, Wednesday 14
October 2.15pm
* Professor Sir David Goldberg,
Professor Emeritus and Fellow of King’s College, London
and specialist in the teaching of psychological skills to
doctors and improving the quality of services to those with
severe mental illnesses, Revising the meta-structure we use
in our classification: towards DSM-5 and ICD11, Thursday 15
October 8.30am
* Professor Luis Rohde, Professor of
Child Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, Brazil and Director of the Program for
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at the Hospital de
Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil, ADHD across the lifespan,
Thursday 15 October 10.50am
* Professor Richard Faull,
Professor of Anatomy at the University of Auckland and
leading researcher on brain diseases such as Huntington’s,
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy,
Huntington’s disease, Thursday 15 October 12.30pm
*
Professor Wolfgang Gaebel, Professor of Psychiatry, Director
of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the
Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf and a researcher on
clinical, pharmacological and neurophysiological aspects of
schizophrenia, experimental psychopathology, treatment
guidelines and quality management, and stigma and
discrimination, The pathology of schizophrenia and the
concept of neural networks, Friday 16 October 8.30am
*
Professor Ahmed Okasha, Founder Professor and Director of
the WHO Collaborating Center for Training and Research in
Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams
University, Cairo and President of the Egyptian Psychiatric
Association, The emergence of sub-threshold psychiatry,
Friday 16 October 11am
* Professor Paul Glue, Hazel
Buckland Chair of Psychiatry and Head of Department,
Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine and
expert in psychoparmacology and intellectual disability,
Novel treatments to enhance learning in intellectual
disability, Friday 16 October 2.30pm
Details of the
conference program to be held in Rotorua are available at:
http://ranzcp.tcc.co.nz/
About
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists
The Royal Australian and New Zealand
College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) is the principal
organisation representing the medical specialty of
psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand and has
responsibility for training, examining and awarding the
qualification of Fellowship of the College to medical
practitioners.
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