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/
For further information:
Kirrily Johns

+61-(0)438-063-618 or
Andrew Peters

+61-(0)411-437-750
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.