West Midlands Spring Conference 2024: Transcultural Psychiatry

This event will cover the topic of transcultural psychiatry. We will hear from four esteemed speakers who work in this field, ranging from neuropsychiatrist to occupational therapist.

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The West Midlands Division will welcome the following speakers to this event:

Professor Dinesh Bhugra – Culture and mental illness

Professor Bhugra is the former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the World Psychiatric Association and the British Medical Association. He has published widely in the field of cultural psychiatry, sexual dysfunction and service development. He has authored/co-authored over 500 scientific papers, chapters, editorials and 47 books. Three of his books have been translated into Mandarin and Japanese. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won Book of the Year award last year. In the same year Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended.

He is the Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and International Review of Psychiatry. He is Patron of Care-if, and on the board of Sane and Psychiatric Research Trust charities and chaired DocHealth charity which is jointly funded by the BMA and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (2018-2021). Currently he is Non-Executive Director of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Ms Alexandra Fisher

Dr Abbas Lohawala

Dr Fabida Aria

The event will be recorded. Event recordings are distributed via email with a specific link and passcode. These are emailed out within 1 week of the event. Please do not schedule CPD time expecting to receive the recording link the same day as the live event.

We would encourage those who register to attend on the day of the event, should they wish to ask questions to our speakers.

All recordings are sent out to delegates via the email address used at the time of registering. If you are unsure whether your email address is up to date, please update this via your membership account. We will not confirm this with you and it is your responsibility to make sure it is correct.

This event recording will be available to watch on-demand until 15 July 2024.

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Fees explained

• The fee you pay relates to your RCPsych membership status - you can check your status here
• Subsidised rate includes those on lower incomes paying a subsidised RCPsych membership rate (maternity or parental leave, working part time or taking a career break) and International RCPsych Members residing in band D and C countries. 
• Medical Students and Foundation Year Doctors can apply for free RCPsych membership, which then gives you access to reduced conference registration fees, amongst other benefits. * The West Midlands division are pleased to offer limited free places to Medical Students for this event. Please email the Division Events Team to reserve your free place.
• The fee you pay includes access to the event recording.
• We will not accept retrospective bookings for this event.

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