Programme

Chair: Dr Lade Smith, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists

A reflection on the past twelve months and what’s to come.

Find out more about Baroness Luciana Berger

Chair: Professor Fiona Gaughran, National Psychosis Unit, London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London

Prevention is the new frontier for psychiatry. We cannot continue to ignore the example set by other medical fields, such as cardiology, and oncology and their outstanding achievement in reducing the toll of cancer and heart disease in the population. The dividends of prevention are potentially much greater for mental health than for physical health because mental illness has its onset in youth and the “knock-on” effects on social, health and justice systems are substantial. The field of psychiatry should now shift its focus to a public mental health approach and face up to the “grand challenge” of prevention for the sake of our youth and future generations.

Find out more about Professor Mary Cannon

Chair: Professor Lynne Drummond, South West London and St George's NHS Mental Health Trust, London, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

Lived experience of people with hoarding problems viewed from the perspective of a self-help organisation

Ms Megan Karnes, Founder/Chair HoardingUK, London

Pharmacology of hoarding disorder

Dr Jemma Reid, Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust, Falmouth

Chair: Dr Stella Kingett, North London Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust, London

Escaping toxic masculinity: exploring the impacts of toxic masculinity on young men and the people around them, on mental health, and examples of positive masculinity

Mr JJ Bola, North London Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust, London

Facilitating constructive engaging with boys and young men

Mr Michael Conroy, Men At Work CIC, Manchester

Identifying, assessing and responding to perpetration of domestic abuse: practice guide for mental health professionals

Dr Marilia Calcia, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Doctoral researcher, King’s Women’s Mental Health, IoPPN, King’s College London, London

Chair: Dr Oliver Sparasci, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, Burnley, The University of Manchester, Manchester

Entry points into academic careers

Professor Rina Dutta, Kings College London, London, The Maudsley Hospital, London

Getting started with research projects in your locality

Dr Oliver Sparasci, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, Burnley, The University of Manchester, Manchester

Support systems for residents in academia

Dr Helen Bould, University of Bristol, Bristol

A practical guide to research funding

Dr Lindsey Sinclair, University of Bristol, Bristol, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership, Bath

Chair: Professor Neil Harrison, Cardiff University, Cardiff

Blood immuno-metabolic biomarker signatures of depression and affective symptoms in young adults

Professor Golam Khandaker, University of Bristol, Bristol

Proteomic signatures of antidepressant exposure

Dr Xueyi Shen, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Experimentally-induced inflammation disrupts (micro)glial morphology in sub-cortical grey matter regions

Professor Neil Harrison, Cardiff University, Cardiff

Chair: Dr Emily Finch, Chair, Royal College of Pyschiatrists Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry

Ketamine addiction: unravelling the intricacies of Its pathogenesis, diagnosis, multifaceted mental and physical comorbidities and treatment pathways

Dr Irene Guerrini, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London

Methamphetamine and GBL: management in the liaison setting

Dr Nicky Kalk, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London

Improving outcomes for patients with alcohol use disorders and co-morbid mental disorders, a national strategy?

Dr Julia Sinclair, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton

Chair: Professor Ian Kelleher, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Understanding current approaches to identifying psychosis risk

Professor Ian Kelleher, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Identifying psychosis risk in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) using healthcare register data

Dr Kirstie O'Hare, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Do attenuated psychotic symptoms predict later psychotic disorders in adolescent psychiatry patients?

Dr Valentina Kieseppä, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

How does treatment of common mental health conditions in childhood and adolescence impact on psychosis risk?

Dr Colm Healy, University College Dublin, Dublin

Chair: Professor Naomi Fineberg, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

Conceptualization, epidemiology and health economic cost and burden of PUI - a global perspective

Professor Marc Potenza, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

New research approaches to problematic usage of the internet

Professor Dan Stein, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Evidence-based care and policy making for PUI, designing fit-for-purpose prevention and treatment response programs

Dr Sophia Achab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Chair: Dr Tania Bugelli, RCPsych Wales Sustainability Champion and Dr Shuo Zhang, RCPsych Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee

Strengthening nature and mental health partnerships in North Wales

Dr Tania Bugelli, RCPsych Wales Sustainability Champion, Wales

Key learning and critical reflections from the national evaluation of the preventing and tackling mental ill health through green social prescribing project

Professor Christopher Dayson, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield

The role of green space and mortality for people with severe mental illness

Dr Dionne Laporte, King's College London, London

Embedding nature across an acute mental health ward in Wales

Dr Stuart D'Arch-Smith, Aneurin Bevan Health Board, Blaenau Gwent

Chair:

Treatment resistance in depression: definition and causes

Dr Luca Sforzini, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London

Systematic review of pharmacological, psychotherapeutic and neurostimulatory options in patients with treatment-resistant anxiety disorders

Dr Harry Fagan, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton

Does (es)ketamine reduce anxiety symptom severity in patients with depression or anxiety disorders?

Dr Zoe Tebbs, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton

Chair: Dr Jonathan Hurlow, BSMHFT NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham

International psychiatric experiences of euthanasia law

Professor Kris Goethals, Univerisity of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

UK parliamentary perspectives against assisted dying law

Baroness Ilora Finlay, House of Lords, London

UK parliamentary perspectives for assisted dying law

Baroness Molly Meacher, House of Lords, London

Croeso (welcome)! Wales is home to two official languages, Welsh and English. It is recognised that all patients and their families should be able to receive healthcare services through the medium of Welsh. This helps to increase their understanding and makes them feel safe and at ease with medical professionals. Over the past 12 months, the Royal College of Psychiatrists Wales has been working with the National Centre for Learning Welsh to create opportunities for psychiatrists to improve their Welsh skills and support their confidence in using Welsh in the workplace. With Congress taking place in Wales for the first time, join us at this unique fringe event to sample a bit of Welsh for yourself and to hear about resources to support your continued learning. 

Croeso! Mae Cymru yn gartref i ddwy iaith swyddogol, Cymraeg a Saesneg. Cydnabyddir y dylai pob claf a’u teuluoedd allu derbyn gwasanaethau gofal iechyd trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg. Mae hyn yn helpu i gynyddu eu dealltwriaeth ac yn gwneud iddynt deimlo'n ddiogel ac yn gyfforddus gyda gweithwyr meddygol. Dros y 12 mis diwethaf, mae Coleg Brenhinol y Seiciatryddion Cymru wedi bod yn gweithio gyda’r Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol i greu cyfleoedd i seiciatryddion wella eu sgiliau Cymraeg a chefnogi eu hyder i ddefnyddio’r Gymraeg yn y gweithle. Gyda’r Gyngres yn cael ei chynnal yng Nghymru am y tro cyntaf, ymunwch â ni yn y digwyddiad ymylol unigryw hwn i flasu ychydig o Gymraeg ac i glywed am adnoddau i gefnogi eich dysgu. 

Facilitators / Trefnwyr

RCPsych Wales and the National Centre for Learning Welsh / CBSeic Cymru a'r Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol

Chair: Professor Ian Jones, Immediate Past Congress Co-Chair

Our clinical studies of children and young people with a range of rare genetic variants indicate 80% have psychiatric conditions and that learning disability, motor coordination and sleep difficulties are also common. About a third exhibit prodromal psychotic symptoms and our longitudinal studies indicate these are more likely to be present in those with specific cognitive deficits and mental health symptoms at baseline. Our population-based studies indicate that older age individuals with these genetic variants are at higher risk of internalising and cardiometabolic conditions and physical and mental health multimorbidity. Improvements in early referral for genetic testing and timely provision of mental health support could reduce adverse outcomes throughout the lifespan.

Find out more about Professor Marianne van den Bree

Chair: Professor Stephen Lawrie, Congress Co-Chair

Data sharing has accelerated our understanding of the subtle differences in brain function that underpin challenges with attention sometimes experienced in those living with ADHD. Using neuroimaging data on over 10,000 individuals, we find that inattention is tied partly to changes in the brain’s information processing loops and partly to shifts in the balance between ‘on-line’ and ‘off-line’ (default mode) brain function. Moving to clinical translation, we ask if these neural features can help predict the lifetime course of childhood ADHD and ask if the neural findings could stimulate new interventions, better targeted to the individual.

Find out more about Professor Philip Shaw

Chair: Dr Joseph Firth, University of Manchester, Manchester and Sophia Davis, Senior Editor, Lancet Psychiatry

Severe mental illness and physical comorbidity: the lived experience

Dr Maria Kapi, King's College London, London

Lifestyle interventions in mental healthcare: moving from recommendations to implementation

Dr Katarzyna Machaczek, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield

The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: an approach for holistic management of physical health side-effects of psychiatric medication

Dr Toby Pillinger, King's College London, London

Chair: Dr A Weaver

A lived experience perspective

Miss Emily Elson, Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust, Stafford

A guide for clinicians

Dr Sophie Behrman, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford

Research highlights and ongoing research gaps for PMDD

Dr Lynsay Matthews, University of the West of Scotland, Blantyre

Chair: Professor Stephen Lawrie, Congress Co-Chair

Is transcranial direct current stimulation a novel treatment for depression? Results from a double-blind, placebo sham-controlled trial

Professor Cynthia Fu, King's College London, London

Pramipexole augmentation for acute phase and maintenance therapy of Treatment-Resistant Depression: results of the PAX-D randomised, controlled trial

Professor Michael Browning, University of Oxford, Oxford

Chair: Dr David Cousins, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Polypharmacy, depression and type 2 diabetes

Dr Annie Jeffery, University College London, London

Geroscience, multiple long-term conditions and the enhancement of care outcomes

Dr Claire McDonald, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Cardiovascular mortality and its associations with depression, co-morbidities and antidepressant treatment

Dr Tiago Costa, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Chair: Dr Ashish Kumar, Mersey Care NHS FT, Prescot

Rewriting the rules: how lived experience is shaping eating disorder policy

Ms Hope Virgo, lived experience, Bristol

Voices from the margin: the real impact of the treatment gap on diverse groups

Mr James Downs, RCPsych patient representative, Cardiff

Addressing the treatment and prevention gap: an overview of current work and future directions

Dr Agnes Ayton, Oxford Health NHS FT, Oxford

Adopting a public mental health approach to eating disorders: opportunities to sustainably address the implementation gap

Dr Jonathan Campion, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London

Join members of the Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee, Dr Katherine Witter and Dr Dan Harwood for a Nature Walk around the beautiful Gwent countryside adjacent to the ICC.

Gwent is one of the most important areas for wildlife in the UK, a home to the shrill carder bee (the UK's rarest bumblebee), rootless duckweed (the smallest flowering plant in the world) the King Diving Beetle and a myriad of rare flowers and invertebrates. 

The walk will fill your lungs with good air and introduce you to some of these special residents (although we make no promises about shrill carder bees, who are known to be rather elusive). We will be encouraging you to reflect and think about what ideas you could bring back to your service users, to help them access the natural world, learn from it and look after it, wherever you work.

There will be a chance to ask questions of the facilitators, who have experience in nature-based therapy and to share ideas with the group. 

 We will meet at the entrance to the outside space, on Level 1 of the conference centre. The session will last around 1 hour and the walk itself will be around 45 mins

Chair: Professor Kenneth Kaufman, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA

Celebrating a decade of excellence - BJPsych Open by the numbers

Professor Kenneth Kaufman, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA and Ms Anna Munks, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Research methods and trajectories of recovery in disasters, terrorism and COVID-19

Professor Richard Williams, University of South Wales, Pontypridd

Depression and mortality - building our understanding of changing trends

Professor Anne Doherty, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Enduring issues in psychotherapy research: negative effects and regulations

Associate Professor Valentina Cardi, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Antipsychotics following remission in first episode psychosis - maintenance versus discontinuation

Professor Stephen Lawrie, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Join us for an inspiring and interactive dance session at the Congress Hosted by Navratna, a group of women healthcare professionals who are passionate about dancing and promoting wellbeing, this session invites you to watch a performance, learn some dance steps, and dance along to a vibrant mix of South Asian, European, and Western music. Through the power of dance, we aim to inspire and motivate attendees to explore non-clinical interests, fostering physical and emotional wellbeing long after the Congress. With our diverse backgrounds as doctors, parents, and community members, we hope to bring a sense of belonging and joy to all. Join us in celebrating life, connection, and cultural unity through the art of dance! No previous experience is required!

Chair: Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists

The impacts of loneliness on health are profound; the equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day. Loneliness is a modifiable risk factor for depression, anxiety and cognitive decline. The longer term impacts of every form of mental ill health will me made worse by the presence of loneliness. Loneliness contributes to the reduced life expectancy experienced by people who use mental health services. In this talk Professor Simon Gilbody will describe loneliness for the uninitiated, and highlight its relevance for mental health services. Drawing on his own research, he will offer potential solutions that might help mitigate the impacts of loneliness.

Find out more about Professor Simon Gilbody

Chair: Professor Fiona Gaughran, National Psychosis Unit, London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London

The microbiota-gut-brain axis is emerging as a research area of increasing interest for those investigating the biological and physiological basis of neurodevelopmental, age-related and neuropsychiatric disorders. The routes of communication between the gut and brain include the vagus nerve, the immune system, tryptophan metabolism, via the enteric nervous system or via microbial metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids. Studies in animal models have been key in delineating that neurodevelopment and the programming of an appropriate stress response is dependent on the microbiota.

Developmentally, a variety of factors can impact the microbiota in early life including mode of birth delivery, antibiotic exposure, mode of nutritional provision, infection, stress as well as host genetics. Major sex differences occur in response to microbial manipulations especially in early life. Stress can significantly impact the microbiota-gut-brain axis at all stages across the lifespan.

Moreover, animal models have been key in linking the regulation of fundamental brain processes ranging from adult hippocampal neurogenesis to myelination to microglia activation by the microbiome. Finally, studies examining the translation of these effects from animals to humans are currently ongoing. Further studies will focus on understanding the mechanisms underlying such brain effects and developing nutritional and microbial-based psychobiotic intervention strategies and how these interact with various systems in the body across the lifespan.

Find out more about Professor John Cryan

Chair: Dr Catherine Durkin, Central and North West London Foundation Trust, London

Do prison-related factors predict deliberate self-harm among inmates?: evidence from a UK prison

Dr Thomas Stephenson, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London

Forensic and psychiatric factors in suicidal behaviour: a comparison of violent and non-violent Nigerian offenders

Dr Ifedayo Ajayi, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Causal inferences from the relationship between mental disorder and suicidality: findings from a Nigerian multi-centre prison study

Dr Adegboyega Ogunwale, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Chair: Dr Hugh Selsick, Sleep Clinic, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London

A psychiatrist’s guide to ‘CBT for insomnia’ (CBT-I)

Dr Rajiv Shah, Sleep Clinic, Royal London Hospital for Integrative Medicine, London

Delivering CBT-I in your mental health or addictions service

Dr Jacob King, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London

An insomnia pathway for adults

Dr Lauren Waterman, North London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Professor Alka Ahuja, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Newport, Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales, TEC Cymru, Wales

Winning awards away from the wards: campaigning with rare disease charities for clinical change

Ms Sophie Muir, Timothy Syndrome Alliance and Dr Jack Underwood, Cardiff University, Cardiff

From knowledge to action: working with RCPsych Wales to influence mental health policy in the Senedd

Dr Kimberley Kendall, Cardiff University, Cardiff

The Craft of care: five key practices in the recovery from mental illness based on the Fathom Trust’s Making Well approach to green prescribing

Dr William Beharrell, Powys Teaching Health Board, Powys

Chair: Dr Trevor Robbins, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Cognitive phenotypes of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders

Professor Naomi Fineberg, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

The neuropsychological and neurochemical basis of habitual checking in OCD and clozapine-treated schizophrenia

Dr Trevor Robbins, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

The overlap between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Chair: Professor Linda Gask, University of Manchester, Manchester

Why this must change - a lived experience perspective

Ms Em McAllister

Hiding in plain sight: why we must acknowledge the scale of sexual harm in our inpatient settings

Dr Philippa Greenfield, North London Mental Health Foundation Trust, London and Dr Syeda Ali, Priory Hospital Group, Manchester

The power of sex and gender intentional research to improve women's mental healthcare

Dr Kate Womersley, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, Imperial College, London

Three things all psychiatrists can do to improve women’s mental health care

Dr Alex Thomson, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Dr Lade Smith CBE, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists

The independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983

Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Kings College, London

Modernising the MHA 1983: a summary of the changes

Dr Adrian James, NHS England, London

Modernising the MHA 1983: implications for the workforce

Professor Wendy Burn, NHS England, London

Chair: Dr Rachel Gibbons

The benefits of scapegoating

Dr Rachel Gibbons

The philosophy of scapegoating

Dr Nisha Shah

The myth of linear causation: the process of scapegoating

Dr Mayura Deshpande

Dr Jo O'Reilly, Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust, London

Dr Benji Waterhouse, Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust, London

Chair: Professor Ian Jones, Cardiff University, Cardiff, National Centre for Mental Health, Cardiff

Suicide, delayed diagnosis, and mixed states in bipolar – how to break through the impasse

Dr Tania Gergel, Bipolar UK, London

Towards a neuroscientifically informed classification of bipolar disorder - where are we now, and where do we need to be?

Dr Sameer Jauhur, King's College London, London

Spotlighting dark data in bipolar: what’s the use?

Professor Melvin McInnis, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA

Chair: Dr Lade Smith, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists

There is an abundance of evidence for the importance of environmental factors to our mental wellbeing, and a growing call for us to remember our place in the living world as organisms that belong to it. But we still spend little time in our therapeutic environments considering this vital relationship between our inner worlds and more-than-human outer landscapes. What might it feel like to do so? What bearing does this have on other aspects of identity that heavily influence experiences of and outcomes from treatment?

Join in this conversation to consider this key relationship between our inner and outer landscapes and how we might reimagine and reshape it, from the inside out, and outside in.

Find out more about Dr Marchelle Farrell

Chair: Professor Allan Young, Chair, RCPsych Academic Faculty

An estimated 7.4 million people worldwide are dependent on methamphetamine. Increasing harm is apparent in many countries, including the United Kingdom. Methamphetamine dependence is a chronic relapsing condition that is associated with elevated risk of psychosis, cardiovascular events, suicide and homicide, accidental injury and death. There are no pharmacotherapies currently approved to treat methamphetamine dependence, with treatment reliant on psychosocial approaches. This talk will cover the current evidence for methamphetamine pharmacotherapies, discuss the challenges with their application, and opportunities for new developments in the field.

Find out more about Professor Rebecca McKetin

Chair: Professor George Kirov, Cardiff University, Cardiff

A mother's journey

Mrs Jan Giles, West Yorkshire NHS Integrated Health Board, Leeds

Surviving bipolar: ECT and the ‘self-binding directive’

Dr Tania Gergel, Bipolar UK, London

Rise like a phoenix

Mrs Ruth Roberts

Back from the edge

Mrs Karen Peckover, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Leicester

Two sides of the storm: a couple’s story

Mrs Sally Thompson and Mr Paul Spencer

Chair: Dr Alex Thomson, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Forty years of inquiries: a thematic analysis of reports

Dr Rachael Elliott, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield

How can lived experience improve patient safety

Dr Emma McAllister

Making sense of it all: how psychiatrists can apply inquiry recommendations in clinical practice

Dr Alex Thomson, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Dr Lade Smith CBE, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Disproportionality, distress and impact on clinical decision making: understanding the impact of a referral to the regulator on doctors

Dr Ananta Dave, NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board, Wolverhampton

Stopping inappropriate referrals to the regulator - preventative and early intervention approaches by the GMC outreach team

Mrs Tista Chakravarty-Gannon, General Medical Council, London

How can NHS Provider healthcare organisations work more effectively with the GMC to support doctors who have been referred?

Dr Ellen Wilkinson, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Bodmin

Chair: Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, University of Oxford, Oxford

Adolescent mental health: evidence on adverse experiences and digital preventive approaches

Professor Peter Fonagy, University College London, London

Multimorbidity including psychosis: developing programme theories for premature mortality and interventionist practice

Dr Georgina Hosang, Queen Mary University London, London and Erin Lawrence, Queen Mary University London

Experienced based co-design of preventive interventions: inclusive research on preventing postpartum SMI and preventing multi-morbidity

Dr Roisin Mooney, University of Oxford, Oxford

Prevention in UK health policy: everybody's talking about it but few are doing it

Professor Peter Byrne, University College London, London

Chair: Professor Mike Crawford, Imperial College London, London

Systematic review of brief interventions for people with personality disorder: what works for who?

Ms Ruksana Begum-Meades, Imperial College London, London

Pathways and pitfalls: Best practice when delivering brief interventions for people with complex emotional needs

Ms Gemma Gowing, Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust, Bristol

Structured psychological support for people with probable personality disorder: impact on mental health, patient experience, and implications for future clinical practice

Ms Fiona Kuhn-Thompson, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Professor Richard Porter, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

Chronobiology in mood disorders - implications for treatment

Professor Richard Porter, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

Chronobiology in menopause and aging

Dr Katie Marwick, Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Chronobiology and sleep in in-patient settings

Professor Havard Kallestad, Clinic of Mental Healthcare, St Olavs Hospital, Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Chair: Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton, University of Sussex, Brighton

What happens to children if we treat their parent's mental health condition? We have almost no idea...

Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton, University of Sussex, Brighton

Can we prevent the intergenerational transmission of anxiety disorders?

Dr Abigail Dunn, University of Surrey, Guildford

Improving support for parents living with bipolar

Professor Steve Jones, University of Lancaster, Lancaster

Join members of the Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee, Dr Katherine Witter and Dr Dan Harwood for a Nature Walk around the beautiful Gwent countryside adjacent to the ICC.

Gwent is one of the most important areas for wildlife in the UK, a home to the shrill carder bee (the UK's rarest bumblebee), rootless duckweed (the smallest flowering plant in the world) the King Diving Beetle and a myriad of rare flowers and invertebrates. 

The walk will fill your lungs with good air and introduce you to some of these special residents (although we make no promises about shrill carder bees, who are known to be rather elusive). We will be encouraging you to reflect and think about what ideas you could bring back to your service users, to help them access the natural world, learn from it and look after it, wherever you work.

There will be a chance to ask questions of the facilitators, who have experience in nature-based therapy and to share ideas with the group. 

 We will meet at the entrance to the outside space, on Level 1 of the conference centre. The session will last around 1 hour and the walk itself will be around 45 mins

Join us for an intimate and evocative poetry reading as part of the fringe programme at the International Congress. This unique session will feature a selection of original poems that explore themes of personal reflection, cultural connection, and the human experience. Whether you’re a lover of poetry or simply looking for a moment of inspiration, this reading promises to be a thought-provoking and enriching experience. Don’t miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in the power of words and creativity.

Speakers

Chair: Professor Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Dr Amit Biswas, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Sridevi Kalidindi, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London

Professor Ananta Dave, NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board, Wolverhampton

Dr Gayathri Thivyaa Gangatharan, Barts Health NHS Trust, London

Dr Ayeyemi Obabire, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, Lancashire

We will be returning this year with our ever popular Congress party!

We can't wait to welcome you to  Newport Market, Europe's biggest indoor market regeneration and central to Newport life for over 150 years. With a mix of the old and a sprinkle of the new, this impressive Victorian structure retains nearly all of its striking historical features making it the perfect place to explore. This amazing and fantastically unique venue will provide an incredible back drop to our party.

Book your ticket now and find out more information about the party on our website. Don't forget, we have sold out in the past, so book early to avoid disappointment!

Get ready to move, groove, and have fun at our Zumba class! No prior experience is necessary, and the class is open to all fitness levels. Led by Dr Shimrit Ziv, a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who is also a qualified Zumba instructor, this energetic session combines easy-to-follow dance routines with uplifting music to get your body moving and your spirits soaring. Join us for a lively and enjoyable workout that will leave you feeling energized and refreshed!

Facilitator

Dr Shimrit Ziv, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge

Chair: Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists

The Collaborative Care Model is one of the few integrated healthcare models with a substantial evidence base for its effectiveness. Developed at the University of Washington in the 1990s, over 90 randomised controlled trials and several meta-analyses show it is more effective than usual care for patients with co-morbid mental and physical conditions. This comprehensive framework represents a paradigm shift in psychiatric care by fostering integration, improving access, and focusing on patient-centred outcomes. Its proven benefits make it a compelling approach to addressing the growing demand for mental health services.

Find out more about Dr Theresa Miskimen Rivera.

Chair: Professor Ian Jones, Immediate Past Congress Co-Chair

The NHS was established to provide health care for people suffering from conditions that were largely untreatable. Over time it has abrogated responsibility for them, concentrating instead on those conditions that have a technological solution. In this lecture I explore what the consequences of relabelling long term health care ‘social care’ have been, the way that this meets neoliberal imperatives that see health care as mainly concerned with profit and the public health and social justice consequences for those who suffer most illness and distress. I examine what successful treatment means where outcomes are hard to measure in numerical terms.

Find out more about Professor Rob Poole

Chair: Dr Jon Van Niekerk

Dr Adrian Whittington, NHSE, London

Mr Seamus Watson, NHSE, London

Ms Natasha Bryant, Avon and Wiltshire NHS Trust

Dr Rachel Gibbons

Mr Philip Pirie, Suicide Prevention Campaigner

Chair:

Examining the evidence - paternal valproate use, reproductive toxicity and the regulatory response

Dr Jonathan Luke Richardson, UK Teratology Information Service, Newcastle

Valproate prescribing in men: risk and regulation

Dr Lance Watkins, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea

Putting MHRA valproate guidance into practice in the NHS

Professor David Taylor, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Dr Rukyya Hassan, TortureID and Freedom from Torture, Manchester

The impact of forced migration on women and children in arts. Euripides’ Trojan Women and Aeneid's Hecuba as examples

Professor Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Storytelling as therapy: the journey from desperation to hope. Why it is important that we tell our stories and why people should listen

Mr Gulwali Passarlaym

Asylum seekers and refugees representation in visual arts: the good, the bad and beautiful. What can psychiatrists learn from films and documentaries?

Dr Yasir Hameed, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich

Psychiatrists as storytellers: how psychiatrists can use their patients' stories in their clinical practice and training

Professor Cornelius Katona, Helen Bamber Foundation, London

Chair: Professor Graham Murray, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

An overview of EPICARE, a national integrated digital registry and clinical decision support system, including how app-based psychiatric scales and live phenotype readings, can benefit research and participants

Professor Rachel Upthegrove, University of Oxford, Oxford

A view of the future of clinical ‘omic phenotyping in psychiatry, with a case study on schizophrenia genetics

Dr Kimberley Kendall, University of Cardiff, Cardiff

How phenotyping individuals with early psychosis can have clinical benefit by providing tailored clinical care, focusing on risk prediction modelling

Dr Emanuele F Osimo, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Chair: Mrs Margherita Zenoni, Orchard, London

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Professor Naomi Fineberg, University of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Welwyn Garden City

Body-focused repetitive disorders (hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder)

Professor Sam Chamberlain, University of Southampton and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust, Southampton

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and hoarding disorder

Professor Jon Grant, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Chair: Dr Swapna Kongara, Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Women in leadership positions; struggles, preconceptions and myths

Dr Swapna Kongara, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Psychotherapy Faculty

The power of the postmenopausal woman

Dr Rachel Gibbons, Vice Chair, Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Intersectionality of gender, age and ethnicity in my leadership Journey

Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Dr Jo O'Reilly, Chair, Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Dr Ananta Dave, NHS Black Country ICB, Wolverhampton

Chair: Dr Mohan Bhat, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Maidstone

Recent development of disease modifying drugs for dementia and current clinical use

Dr Robert Barber, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, Newcastle

The clinician and patient perspective of disease modifying drugs for dementia, challenges and opportunities

Dr Chineze Ivenso, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Newport

The future of disease modifying drugs for dementia

Dr Ben Underwood, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Chair: Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists

MRCPsych exam development

Dr Vivek Agarwal, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich

Standard setting of MRCPsych exams

Dr Nicole Eady, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Learning from international PG exams

Dr Jennifer Cooke, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton

Chair: Professor Rohit Shankar, University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School, Truro

Assisted dying and people with neurodevelopmental disorders

Professor Regi Alexander, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

"My Heart Breaks" - restrictive interventions and neurodevelopmental disorders

Dr Inder Sawhney, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Neurodevelopmental disorders and the consequences of proposed changes in the Mental Health Act for England and Wales

Dr Samuel Tromans, University of Leicester, Leicester

Join members of the Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee, Dr Katherine Witter and Dr Dan Harwood for a Nature Walk around the beautiful Gwent countryside adjacent to the ICC.

Gwent is one of the most important areas for wildlife in the UK, a home to the shrill carder bee (the UK's rarest bumblebee), rootless duckweed (the smallest flowering plant in the world) the King Diving Beetle and a myriad of rare flowers and invertebrates. 

The walk will fill your lungs with good air and introduce you to some of these special residents (although we make no promises about shrill carder bees, who are known to be rather elusive). We will be encouraging you to reflect and think about what ideas you could bring back to your service users, to help them access the natural world, learn from it and look after it, wherever you work.

There will be a chance to ask questions of the facilitators, who have experience in nature-based therapy and to share ideas with the group. 

 We will meet at the entrance to the outside space, on Level 1 of the conference centre. The session will last around 1 hour and the walk itself will be around 45 mins

Join us for an exciting Chess Challenge as part of the fringe programme at the International Congress! Whether you’re a seasoned player or a newcomer, this event offers a fun and engaging opportunity to test your skills, connect with fellow attendees, and foster a collaborative, supportive atmosphere. It’s more than just a game, it's a chance to network, share strategies, and build meaningful connections in a relaxed and friendly environment. Don’t miss out on this intellectually stimulating challenge!

Facilitators

Dr Sitki Anul Ustun, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Simona Ionita, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Dr Abdul Raoof, RCPsych Associate Dean for Advanced Learning

The friendship bench is a brief psychological intervention based on principles of CBT, and is delivered from wooden park benches by trained community grandmothers in Zimbabwe and beyond. Over 100 peer reviewed publications about the model which has been replicate in several international settings are available.

Find out more about Professor Dixon Chibanda

Chair: Dr Akshay Nair, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London

The mental health of patients with neurological disorders: an overview and call to arms

Dr Michael Dilley, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Access to mental health services for patients with neurological disorders: results from national charity surveys from the Neurological Alliance and Huntington's Disease Association

Ms Cath Stanley, Huntington's Disease Association, Liverpool and Ms Georgina Carr, Neurological Alliance, Watford

Accessing mental health services and support after brain injury: a carer and patient perspective

Mrs Jane Allberry CBE

Chair: Professor Rohit Shankar, University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School, Truro

Identifying the potential treatment gap of undiagnosed tardive dyskinesia using real-world datasets

Dr Rashmi Patel, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Diagnosing tardive dyskinesia and it's impact on rehabilitation

Dr Julie Hankin, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds

Managing tardive dyskinesia in routine clinical practice

Dr Chinyere Iheonu, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham

Chair: Professor Sam Chamberlain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton and Ms Hannah Cole, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

What journal editors want you to know about submitting a brilliant paper, and how you can become one

Dr Katherine Adlington,  Queen Mary University of London and East London NHS Foundation Trust, London

The publishers view of a paper from submission to outcome

Ms Anna Munks, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

From peer review to successful publication: how to thrive on reviewer comments as a clinical researcher

Dr Angharad de Cates, Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham and Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust, Birmingham

How to maximise the reach and impact of your research post-publication

Ms Sarah Maddox, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Chair: Professor Peter B. Jones, University of Cambridge, Cambridge and Ms Sophia David, The Lancet Psychiatry

Mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic: policy and public health

Professor Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu, Makerere University, Makerere, Uganda

The implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for clinical mental health care

Ms Alexandra M. Schuster, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Neurobiological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Maxime Taquet, University of Oxford, Oxford

Chair:

SSRI treatment of anxiety symptoms in adults with a diagnosis of autism: findings from the STRATA study

Professor Dheeraj Rai, University of Bristol, Bristol

The co-development of the STRATA study: challenges, successes, lessons for the future

Mr Jack Welch, University of Bristol, Bristol

Optimising psychotropic medicine prescribing for adults with intellectual disabilities

Professor Shoumitro Deb. Imperial College London, London