Keynote speakers

Dr Adrian James

President

Professor Louis Appleby

Professor of Psychiatry, Manchester University

Paul Rees MBE

Chief Executive Officer

Professor Stephen Lawrie

Dr Samantha Meltzer Brody

Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair, Director, UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Professor Sube Banerjee

Executive Dean and Professor of Dementia, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth

Professor Tamsin Ford

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

Dr Roch Cantwell

Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Lead Clinician Perinatal Mental Health Scotland

Dr Gwen Adshead

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist West London Trust

Professor James T.R. Walters

Director, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University

Dr Rebecca Brendel

President Elect, American Psychiatric Association

Mr Kevin Stewart MSP

Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care

Dr David Williams

Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health, Chair, Department of Social and Behavioural Science and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard

Dr Geoffrey Reed

Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization

Ms Ajibola Lewis

Professor Louise Howard

King's College London

Professor Francesca Happé

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London