Joint RCPsych/RCGP Neurodevelopmental SIG Event 2025 Programme
Innovating Together for the Future – Fresh Perspectives on Neurodevelopment
Venue: Online via Zoom
Date: Friday 13 June 2025
Innovating Together for the Future – Fresh Perspectives on Neurodevelopment, is this years’ Royal College of Psychiatrists Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group Summer Conference, which has been jointly developed with the Royal College of General Practitioners Special Interest Group. The online-only event will be held on Friday 13 June 2025, and features a wide range of speakers, spanning psychiatry, general practice, and academic medicine. Please join us where we will be discussing current research and clinical practice relating to neurodevelopment, as well as focusing on future directions.
Contact us
e: events@rcpsych.ac.uk
t: 0208 618 4244
Please note that the programme is still subject to change and all times are listed in GMT.
- 09.00 – 09.15am Introduction
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09.15am – 10.55am
Session 1: The Need to Think Brain-Body in Neurodevelopment
09.15 – 09.40am Heartsink or rethink? The reality
09.40 – 10.05am Heartsink or rethink? The research
10.05 – 10.30am The Overlap between Eating Disorders and Neurodivergence
10.30 – 10.55am Education – the missing link
- 10.55 – 11.30am Morning break
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11.30am – 1.45pm
Session 2: Neurodevelopment Across the Spectrum and Lifespan
11.30 – 11.55am LD and GP – clinical perspective
11.55 – 12.20pm LD and GP - research perspective
12.20 – 12.45pm Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
12.45 – 1.10pm Neurodiversity in Older Adults: Considerations for Clinical Practice
Dr Mhairi Hepburn and Dr Shevonne Matheiken
1.10 – 1.35pm ND and older people – research perspective
1.35 – 1.45pm Patient perspective
Ms Ann Chamings
- 1.45 – 2.30pm Lunch
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2.30 – 4.45pm
Session 3: Practicalities of Mainstreaming Neurodevelopment
Chair TBC
2.30 – 2.50pm Autism: The Current State of Play
2.50 – 3.10pm Barriers to seamless ADHD care
3.10 – 3.30pm What is the Role of GP Versus Psychiatrist?
Dr Ulrich Muller-Sedgwick and Dr Heidi Phillips
3.30 – 3.50pm ADHD in Primary Care Pilot and Interface
Dr Dietmar Hank and Dr Will Kenny-Levick
3.50 – 4.15pm What does Good Care Look Like?
Dr Sarah Michaels and Dr Jessica Ong
4.15 – 4.30pm Panel Discussion
Speakers and Panel Chairs
4.30 – 4.45pm Closing Remarks
Dr Jessica Eccles and Dr Heidi Phillips
- 4.45pm Close of day
To encourage open dialogue, scientific discovery and enrich learning, we provide our delegates with the opportunity to hear from a diverse range of views and presentations. All the speakers, panellists and participants views and comments are their own and not the established views of the College. Speakers should expect probing questions and healthy debate.
The College expects all content of event programmes, and the behaviour of the speakers and the delegates, to be professional, respectful and to uphold the College values.
The College does not endorse any programme content or behaviour displaying any form of prejudice or discrimination.
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