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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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