Psychiatry Conference

Psychiatry Conference

AUCKLAND, Oct. 9 /Medianet International-Asianet/--

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/

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