International Congress Organising Committee
The International Congress Organising Committee is responsible for overseeing the organisation of the College's International Congress.
The Committee is broken down into two groups, the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board. The Committee work closely with the College's events team to engage the wider membership and partner organisations in advocating for the International Congress.
The full committee meets twice a each year and reviews all the submitted programme proposals to ensure the programme is of a high quality and representative of the specialty and those that work within it.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee has overall responsibility for planning and delivering a high quality and balanced scientific programme, proposing and inviting keynote speakers and commissioning sessions if necessary.
| Name | Position | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Stephen Lawrie | Professor of Psychiatry | Congress Co-Chair |
| Dr Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa | Consultant Psychiatrist, President Indian Psychiatric Association | Congress Co-Chair |
| Dr Abdul Raoof | Consultant Psychiatrist, Secure Mental Health Services | Associate Dean for Advanced Learning |
| Professor Allan Young | Chair of Mood Disorders and Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders | Chair of the RCPsych Academic Faculty |
| Professor Fiona Gaughran | Professor of Physical Health and Clinical Therapeutics in Psychiatry | Appointed role |
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board are in place to advise and steer the Executive Committee, suggesting innovations to keep the Congress relevant, proposing sessions to be commissioned and nominating keynote speakers.
| Name | Position | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Lade Smith CBE | RCPsych President | Co-Opted |
| Professor Subodh Dave | RCPsych Dean | Co-Opted |
| Professor Owen Bowden-Jones | RCPsych Registrar | Co-Opted |
| Dr Ian Hall | RCPsych Treasurer | Co-Opted |
| Ms Elen Cook | Director of Professional Standards | Co-Opted |
| Dr Claire-Marie Hosein | Immediate Past Chair of PTC | Co-Opted |
| Dr Mike Groves | SAS Committee Vice Chair | Co-Opted |
| Ms Em McAllister | RCPsych Learn Patient Representative | Co-Opted |
| Mr Mark Farmer | RCPsych Learn Patient and Carer Representative | Co-Opted |
| Dr Jane Morris | Vice-President Scotland | Co-Opted |
| Professor Alka Ahuja | Vice-President Wales (Co-Opted) | Co-Opted |
| Dr Julie Anderson | Vice-President Northern Ireland (Co-Opted) | Co-Opted |
| Professor Mohammed Al-Uzri | Chair of the International Advisory Committee | Co-Opted |
| Professor Naomi Fineberg | BAP representative | Co-Opted |
| Professor Sam Chamberlain | Vice Chair Academic Faculty | Co-Opted |
| Dr Nish Babu Mathew | North West Division Chair | Co-Opted |
| Dr Salim Al-Huseini | Clinical Fellow and Academic Tutor, Specialist Psychiatrist, Oman | Appointed |
| Dr Calin Cavaropol | SAS Doctor and SAS Tutor | Appointed |
| Dr Sanjukta Das | Associate Medical Director, Inpatient and Urgent Care | Appointed |
| Dr Jana de Villiers | Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead for the High Secure Intellectual Disability Service for Scotland | Appointed |
Dr Dina Elgabry | Professor of Psychiatry | Appointed |
| Professor Saeed Farooq | NIHR Global Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health | Appointed |
| Dr Jonathan Gibb | Clinical PhD Fellow and Honorary Specialty Registrar | Appointed |
| Dr Rachel Gibbons | Consultant in adult psychiatry and adult psychotherapy | Appointed |
| Dr Sundar Gnanavel | Consultant Psychiatrist | Appointed |
| Dr Sumeet Gupta | Consultant Psychiatrist in Community Affective Disorder team | Appointed |
| Dr Declan Hyland | Chair, Choose Psychiatry Committee and Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist | Appointed |
| Professor Kenneth Kaufman | Chair, Pan-American International Division and Editor in Chief, BJPsych Open Editorial Board | Appointed |
| Professor Helen Killaspy | Professor of Rehabilitation Psychiatry | Appointed |
| Professor Ania Korszun | Professor of Psychiatry and Education | Appointed |
| Dr Fergus Lewis | Resident in Higher Training in Psychiatry of Learning Disability | Appointed |
| Dr Pallab Majumder | Consultant and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Appointed |
| Dr Omer Moghraby | Chief Digital Information Officer and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist | Appointed |
| Dr Jo O'Reilly | Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy | Appointed |
| Dr Saju Padakkara | Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Medical Psychotherapy Tutor | Appointed |
| Dr Lokapriya Premalatha | Consultant psychiatrist in general adult psychiatry with inpatient, liaison psychiatry, addictions and community | Appointed |
| Dr Thomas Rourke | NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow | Appointed |
| Dr Amrit Sachar | Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Joint Presidential Lead for Equity and Equality | Appointed |
| Dr Toral Thomas | Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) | Appointed |
| Dr Alex Thomson | Liaison Faculty Chair, Clinical Lead for Liaison Psychiatry and Urgent and Emergency Care | Appointed |
| Dr Alex Till | Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist | Appointed |
| Dr Ovais Wadoo | Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist | Appointed |
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