Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health and the Centre for Implementation Science, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working in a community mental health team in Lambeth. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, is a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator Emeritus and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Fellow of King’s College London and the Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

Graham took his undergraduate degree at Cambridge in Social and Political Sciences, studied Medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London and then trained in Psychiatry at the Maudsley and Johns Hopkins Hospitals. He gained an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD at the University of London. 

Graham has made significant contributions to the development of mental health policy in England, including chairing the External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for Mental Health, the national mental health plan for England for 1999-2009.    

He is also active in global mental health, for example, he chaired the World Health Organisation Guideline Development Group for the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide (1st and 2nd editions), a practical support for primary care staff to treat people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low and lower middle incomes, which is now used in over 100 countries worldwide. He chaired the External Reference Group for the WHO guidelines on the Management of Physical Health Conditions in adults with severe mental disorders (2018). He now chairs the Guideline Development Group for the WHO guidelines on mental health at work.

He is a Board Trustee of United for Global Mental Health, a Board Member for  Mental Health and Human Rights, and he chairs the Board of Implemental. His areas of research expertise include: reduction of stigma and discrimination, evaluation of mental health services, and global mental health. Graham has authored or edited over 30 books and over 600 peer-reviewed papers in Pubmed. In 2020 he was named as among the most Highly Cited Researchers in the world by Clarivate. Graham received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Awards in 2017. 

Early adverse exposures, such as maternal stress during pregnancy and child abuse, are thought to result in long-lasting consequences on neural circuit function and stress hormone regulation and ultimately in an increased risk for psychiatric but also medical disorders later in life. The impact of these environmental risk factors is moderated by genetic variation. The biological mechanisms underlying this increased risk and these gene x environment interactions are still unclear. This lecture will focus on putative biological mechanisms that implicate the ability of the stress hormone cortisol, released in response to stress, to trigger a cascade of adaptive genomic and non-genomic processes through activation of it’s receptors and the moderation of these responses by genetic variation. These stress hormone receptors are intracellular and bind to the DNA where they act as transcription factors. In such, this system presents a unique set-up for gene x environment interaction. 

Overall, the presentation will outline how stress-exposure can have lasting effects on cell and tissue function and how this relates to risk or resilience to stress-related psychiatric disorders.

Chair: Dr Ursula Werneke Associate Professor (docent) in Psychiatry, Sunderby Hospital, Luleå and Umeå University, Sweden

Professor John McGrath, National Centre for Register-based Research Aarhus University, Denmark and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia   

Professor Fiona Gaughran, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Adrian Martineau, Professor of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Professor Alan Carson, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University of Edinburgh

Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Neurology, University of Exeter

Chair: Sir Professor Robin Murray, Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Professor Wendy Burn, Past President Royal College of Psychiatrists, Consultant Old Age psychiatrist.

Professor David Taylor, Director of Pharmacy and Pathology, SLaM and Professor of Psychopharmacology, KCL

Dr Mark Horowitz, Psychiatry trainee, C&I and Clinical Research Fellow, UCL and NELFT

Chair: Nikki Nabavi, The BMJ, The University of Manchester

Dr Jon Goldin FRCPsych Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Specialty Lead DCAMH  Joint Training Programme Director  Vice-Chair CAP Faculty, RCPsych Mildred Creak Unit Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Dr James Woollard, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. National Specialty Adviser in Digital Mental Health, NHS England and Improvement

Oenone Forbat, Writer, Presenter, Social Media Influencer

Chair: Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anaesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London; London, UK

Professor Kamaldeep  S. Bhui, CBE, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRCPsych, FRCP(E); Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry &  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences,  Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, UK; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Steve Kisely, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, FFPH, FAFPHM, FAChAM; Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia and Professor of Psychiatry, Community Health, and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Canada; Brisbane, Australia

Chair: Sam Chamberlain MB/BChir PhD MRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southampton

Himanshu Tyagi MRCPsych PhD, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Medical Psychotherapist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Susanne Ahmari MD PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Translational OCD Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh

Matilde M. Vaghi PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Chair: Professor Alan Carson, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University of Edinburgh

Dr Thomas Jackson, Geriatrician and Clinician Scientist, University of Birmingham

Professor Masud Husain, Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford

Chair: Professor Oliver Howes, King's College London, Imperial College London and South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust

Dr David Cousins, Newcastle University

Dr Orestes V Forlenza

Dr Matthew Taylor, Oxford Health NHS Trust

Chair: Dr Billy Boland, Medical director for South West London and St. George’s Mental Health Trust, Chair - Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dame Prof Til Wykes, Professor and Vice Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London and Hannah Belcher

Conor, D’Arcy, The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

Lee Brookes, Expert by Experience

Chair: Prof Hamish McAllister-Williams, Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT

Koen Demyttenaere, MD, PhD,  Professor of Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven

David Baldwin, MA, DM, FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK

Hamish McAllister-Williams, PhD, MD, FRCPsych, Professor of Affective Disorders, Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT

Dr John Russell, RCPsych Associate Dean for the Curriculum 

Dr Mihaela Bucur, Associate Registrar for Wellbeing and Retention RCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Parliamentary Scholars
Jonathan Blay, Public Affairs Manager, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Chair: Prof Julia Sinclair. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; and University Hospital Southampton.

Prof Anne Lingford-Hughes. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London.

Prof Jon Grant. Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago.

Prof Sam Chamberlain. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Chair: Professor Alan Carson, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University of Edinburgh

Dr Biba Stanton, Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital

Professor Wendy Burn, Past-President Royal College of Psychiatrists

Chair: Angelika Wieck

Kristi Sawyer

Professor Ian Jones, Congress Co-Chair

Professor David Baldwin, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Dr Ken Busch, Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association

Dr Jessica Yakeley, Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy; Director, Portman Clinic Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Sarah Majid, Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Dr James R. Batterson UMKC School of Medicine Immediate Past Speaker, Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association

Chair: Dr Sarah Reeve, University College London

Dr Isabel Morales-Muñoz, University of Birmingham; and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Faith Orchard, University of Sussex

Dr Felicity Waite, University of Oxford

Chair: Dr Shubulade Smith, Congress Co-Chair

Dr Lasana Harris, Associate Professor in Social Psychology, University College London

Dr James Kirkbride, Reader in Epidemiology, University College London

Dr Rajesh Mohan, Consultant Psychiatrist, Presidential Lead for Race and Equality, RCPsych

Chair: Professor Alan Carson, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University of Edinburgh

Dr Benedict Michael, Senior Clinician Scientist Fellow, University of Liverpool

Dr Alison Green, Reader, University of Edinburgh

Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones

Dr Venetia Leonodaki

Dr Amanda Roberts

Professor George Ikkos and Professor Nick Bouras

Chair: Professor Dinesh Bhugra

Professor Nicol Ferrier

Professor Eve Johnstone

Dr Aggrey Burke

Chair: Professor Mary Cannon, Department of Psychiatry, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland

Professor Sir Robin M Murray, Professor of Psychiatric Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London

Professor Mary Cannon, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Youth Mental Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin

Dr Bobby Smyth, Consultant Child and Adolescent Addiction Psychiatrist, Health Services Executive and Department of Public Health, Trinity College Dublin

Professor Oyedeji Ayonrinde, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Chair: Professor Kenneth Kaufman, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Dr William Lee, University of Exeter 

Professor Eva Petkova, New York University School of Medicine 

Professor Kam Bhui, University of Oxford

Professor Sophia Frangou, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Professor Allan Young, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London; Professor Gin Malhi, Sydney Medical School; Professor Christine Laine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College; Professor Kenneth Kaufman, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School      

The Turtle Song project is a singing and song writing initiative for people living with dementia and for their carers and companions. It is a partnership project between Turtle Key Arts, Royal College of Music and English Touring Opera and has been running since 2008. 

The session will be an interactive introduction to the way that we co-create songs with people living with dementia.  Working with a professional composer and workshop director, it will illustrate the ability of creativity and music to enhance the quality of life for everyone and will be an uplifting and joyous start to the day.  

Testimonial from a participant living with dementia: “It’s a friendly, fun and creative experience that’s inclusive and not in the least bit condescending 

https://www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk/

Fiona Godlee is the Editor in Chief of The BMJ. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. She has written and lectured on a broad range of issues, including health and the environment, the ethics of academic publishing, evidence based medicine, access to clinical trial data, research integrity, open access publishing, patient partnership, conflict of interest, and overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Fiona is honorary professor at the Netherlands School for Primary Care Research (CaRe), honorary fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and a by-fellow of King’s College Cambridge.

She is on the advisory or executive boards of the Health Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, Alltrials, the Peer Review Congress, the International Forum for Quality and Safety and Healthcare, Evidence Live, Preventing Overdiagnosis, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and the Climate and Health Council. 

She was a Harkness Fellow (1994-5), President of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (1998-2000), Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (2003-5), and PPA Editor of the Year (2014). Fiona is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences . She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.

Chair: Professor Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Director, Medical Virtual Reality, Institute for Creative Technologies, Research Professor, University of Southern California

Dr Aileen O'Brien, Reader in Psychiatry and Education St George's University of London, Honorary Consultant South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

Katie Sambrooks, Research Associate in Forensic Psychology, CORE-FP, School of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent

Zillah Watson, Visiting Fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

Chair: Dr Ken Courtenay, Chair Intellectual Disability Faculty Royal College of Psychiatrists

Mr Phil Wills

Dr. Gerda de Kuijper, MD, PhD, ID-Physician 

Professor Rohit Shankar MBE, FRCPsych

Chair: Dr Sarah Markham, King's College London

Dr. Howard Ryland, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford; Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Sridevi Kalidindi C.B.E., MB BS, BSc (Hons), PhD, FRCPsych   Consultant Psychiatrist in Rehabilitation & Recovery SLaM NHS FT;  National Clinical Lead, GIRFT Mental Health Rehabilitation, NHSI;  Visiting Senior Clinical Lecturer, IOPPN

Dr. Shubulade Smith CBE, Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, Clinical Director, Forensic Services South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Director, NCCMH, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Chair: Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anaesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London; London, UK

Professor Kamaldeep S. Bhui, CBE, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRCPsych, FRCP(E); Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, UK; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Steve Kisely, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, FFPH, FAFPHM, FAChAM; Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia and Professor of Psychiatry, Community Health, and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Canada; Brisbane, Australia

Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anaesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London; London, UK

Ann H. Avouris, BA; Executive Publisher, Journals, Cambridge University Press; New York, New York, USA

Chair: Prof. Allan H. Young, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Prof. Bruno Etain, University Paris Diderot and Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, France  

Dr Monica Aas NORMENT K.G Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway  

Dr Mario F P Juruena.  Centre for Affective Disorders - Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience - King’s College London

Chair: Professor Naomi Fineberg, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Dr Eduardo Cinosi, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Hatfield,  UK

Professor Richard Morriss, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK

Professor Eileen Joyce, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK

Chair: Professor Daniel Smith, University of Glasgow

Ms Judith Mabelis, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

Mina Fazel, Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of OXford and Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychological Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT

Professor Frances Rice, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, Cardiff University.

Chair: Vanessa Ford, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

Jessica Barrett, Lead Researcher and Developer, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

Dr Matthew Milarski, Quality Improvement Coach, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

Chair: Dr Kate Lovett, Dean, RCPsych.

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Prof Sam Chamberlain. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Niall Boyce. The Lancet Psychiatry

Chair: Dr James Lee-Davey, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chloe Beale, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Ms Ellie Thomas, Service User and Carer Group for the 2018 Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983

Mr Alex Ruck Keene, 39 Essex Chambers

Chair: Dr Katherine Walesby

Dr Sahan Benedict Mendis MRCPsych, Alzheimer Scotland Clinical Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh and Honorary ST5 in General Adult Psychiatry. 

Mr Miles Welstead, University of Edinburgh

Dr Donncha Mullin, MRCPsych, Clinical Research Fellow, Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre and Division of Psychiatry at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Honorary Specialty Registrar in Psychiatry, NHS Lothian, Scotland 

Vivian B. Pender, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training Psychoanalyst at Columbia University. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association she has served  as aTrustee since 2014. She is the incoming 2020 APA President-Elect.

At the United Nations she represents the International Psychoanalytical Association andthe American Psychiatric Association. Until 2011, she chaired the NGO Committee on the Status of Women and is the Immediate Past Chair of the NGO Committee on Mental Health, coalitions of non-government organizations in consultative status with the UN that include the APA and the IPA. As a UN Consultant Psychiatrist she was instrumental in the establishment of UN Women. She is a volunteer Asylum Evaluator for Physicians for Human Rights. She was a volunteer psychiatrist with Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless. She is a volunteer with the New York Cares Medical Reserve Corps. In 2015, she founded Healthcare Against Trafficking, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting education and advocacy in the healthcare sector. To this end she has presented Grand Rounds and symposia on the prevention of child abuse, forced early marriage and human sex trafficking. She is a co-investigator on a Weill Cornell Department of Internal Medicine innovative grant to study “Experiences of Sex Trafficking Victims in Healthcare Settings.” She produced four documentaries of conferences at the United Nations on mental health, human rights, human trafficking and violence.

Dr. Pender has honors and awards for her excellence in teaching undergraduate students, medical students, residents and fellows. She has published journal articles and book chapters on affect, pregnancy, human trafficking, global mental health and leadership. In 2016 her book, The Status of Women: Violence, Identity and Activism was published.

Professor Chris Whitty is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser and head of the public health profession.

Chris is also Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), with overall responsibility for the department’s research and development, including the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the government’s major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. He represents the UK on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization.

Chris is a practising NHS Consultant Physician at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and Gresham Professor of Physic at Gresham College.

Chris is an epidemiologist and has undertaken research and worked as a doctor in the UK, Africa and Asia. He was Professor of Public and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) before becoming CMO.

Chris was the interim Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2017 to 2018, including during the Novichok poisonings. Before that, he was the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Development (DFID), which included leading technical work on the West Africa Ebola outbreak and other international emergencies.

Chair: Prof Hugo Critchley, Sussex

Professor David Linden, Maastricht and Cardiff

Dr Yoko Nagai, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Dr Cristina Ottaviani, Sapienza and University of Rome

Chair: Sophia Frangou, University of British Columbia and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sophia Frangou, Departments of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Argyris Stringaris, Mood, Brain and Development Unit, NIMH

Dr. Heather Whalley, The University of Edinburgh

Chair: Mr Steve Gilbert OBE, Service user & Serious Mental Illness Living Experience Consultant and Vice Chair of Independent Mental Health Act Review

Dr Joan Rutherford, Chief Medical Member, Mental Health Tribunal England and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Ms Rheian Davies, Head of Legal, Mind

Dr David O’Flynn, Trust Mental Health Act Clinical Lead, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Dr Maria Papanastassiou, NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Rachel Gibbons, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dame Clare Gerada

Chair: Professor Angela Hassiotis, Professor of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability and Consultant Psychiatrist, UCL Division of Psychiatry and Camden and Islington Foundation NHS Trust

Dr Rory Sheehan, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Dr Dheeraj Rai, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Bristol

Dr Rohit Shankar MBE, Consultant in Adult Developmental Neuropsychiatry Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & Associate Professor (Hon.)/Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Exeter Medical School

Come and join us for a lively and interactive virtual wine tasting when we finally start planning to host our friends again.  

During the session, wine host Fabio will introduce 2 gastronomic wines that are bound to impress your guests this summer! 

Prior to the event, attendees will receive a comprehensive PDF presentation with full details on each wine plus recommended food pairings, including vegan options. 

Please note that spaces for this event are limited and are on a first come first served basis.

* This event will be live only and not available to view on demand.

‘Vinny Peculiar songs make you laugh and cry and think all at the same time’  

Tom Robinson BBC 6Music 

Rolling Stone Magazine said…‘Vinny’s kitchen sink confessional style of writing is often described as quintessentially English – ‘homespun tunesmithery in the Robyn Hitchcock/Martin Newell vain –wry nostalgia, witty wordplay 

 

While not performing or recording albums Vinny can be found doing music workshops aimed at aiding recovery with Tonic Music for Mental Health. 

In this IC Fringe session Vinny’s music performance is introduced by Dr John Barnes with whom Vinny has collaborated on participation projects with Johns patients in Somerset and conference workshops for medical students and rehab faculty. John will give an entertaining presentation of a toolkit on how and why psychiatrists should collaborate with artists and musicians. 

In this session Professor Femi Oyebode will read from poetry written by people who have a history of psychiatric illness including Elizabeth Jennings, Robert Lowell, Ivor Gurney, Anne Sexton, and others. 

The aim is to illustrate the themes and concerns that emotional disquiet

This dance session will involve about twenty participants, ranging in age from sixteen through twenty-five, including college and post-graduation students of the department of dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria. 

Participating in the dance workshop demonstrated the mental and emotional benefits of dance. Some of the benefits of dance on our general wellbeing includes: increased mental stamina and memory, increased self-confidence, joyful self-expression, emotional exploration, setting and attaining goals and taking on new challenges. 

Mental Health Support Initiative in conjunction with the Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria, presents “How Dance affects our Mental and Emotional Health”… We hope participants will appreciate our performance.   

This drama presentation will involve about twenty participants, ranging in age from sixteen through twenty-five, including college and post-graduation students of the department of dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria. 

We have come to realise that ‘Mental health stigma’ operates in the society and is internalized by individuals across boards. This has been the story in Nigeria over the period. As a student body, we hope to increase the mental literacy among members of the global community with this presentation of ours. As observed, this ethics-laden issue acts as a barrier to individuals who may seek or engage in treatment services and other issues of life.  

Mental Health Support Initiative in conjunction with the Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria, presents a drama titled “Mental Health Stigma in Nigeria”… We hope participants will appreciate our performance.   

Chair: Prof. Wendy Burn Past-President Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dr. Ken Courtenay Chair, Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Mary Busk, Senior Carer Adviser, NHS England and Improvement

Dr. Rajesh Mohan, Chair, Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Chair: Professor David Baldwin, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Prof Sam Chamberlain. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Prof Tamsin Ford. Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. 

Prof Samuele Cortese. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.

Chair: Dr Lynne Jones OBE FRCPsych, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Hayley Pinto, Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions Psychiatry, CGL Norfolk

Dr Kirsten Shukla, Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Daze Aghaji, Climate Justice Activist and Dr Nick Barnes, RCPsych Sustainability Committee

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

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

Dr Emma McAllister

Prof David Veale, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London

Chair: Dr Jon Goldin, RCPsych Westminster Parliamentary lead

Sir Norman Lamb Chair of the Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition, Chair of Maudsley NHS and former Minister for Care and Support

Luciana Berger Chair of Maternal Mental Health Alliance, Managing Director oat Edelman UK and former Shadow Secretary of State for Mental Health’

Dr Ben Spencer Consultant Psychiatrist and Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge

Chair: Nicola Swinson, NHS Forth Valley

Prof Seena Fazel, University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry

Prof Taj Nathan, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust

Dr Ed Silva, Mersey Care NHS FT

Chair: Professor Rafey Faruqui, University of Kent, Canterbury and Kent & Medway NHS Partnership Trust

Professor Hugh Rickards, National Centre for Mental Health, University of Birmingham

Dr Niruj Agrawal, St. George's Hospital London & St. George's Medical School, University of London

Professor Andrea Cavana, National Centre for Mental Health, University of Birmingham & Aston University, Birmingham

Chair: Indira Vinjamuri, Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education - Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust

Stephen Watkins, Director, NHS Benchmarking Network

Simon Rose, Lived Experience Educator, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Asif Bachlani, Clinical Director for Acute and PICU Network, Priory Group

Chair: Prof Cornelius Katona MD FRCPsych Medical and Research Director, Helen Bamber Foundation and Hon Professor, Division of Psychiatry, UCL

Dr Piyal Sen, FRCPsych, DPM, DFP, PGCAP, Medical Director, Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View, Elysium Healthcare, Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University.

Professor J David Kinzie, MD , FACPsych, Professor of Psychiatry  Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon USA

Dr Rachel Kronick, MD MSc FRCPC, Child and adolescent psychiatrist, Jewish General Hospital Assistant professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University Clinician-Scientist, Lady Davis Institute and Sherpa Research Institute

Chair: Sophie Thomson, Chair, Volunteer and International Psychiatry Special Interest Group Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dr. Peter Hughes, Consultant Psychiatrist, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

Dr Lynne Jones OBE FRCPsych, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 

Dr. Anis Ahmed, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Chair Elect VIPSIG at RCPsych

Huda Zoghbi is Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the founding Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Zoghbi’s interests range from neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration.  Her discovery (with Harry Orr) that Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 1 is caused by expansion of a polyglutamine tract and her subsequent studies that such expansion leads to accumulation of the mutant protein in neurons has had profound ramifications since many late-onset neurological disorders involve similar accumulations of disease-driving proteins.  Zoghbi’s work in neurodevelopment led to the discovery of the gene Math1/Atoh1 and to showing that it governs the development of several components of the proprioceptive, balance, hearing, vestibular, and breathing pathways. Zoghbi’s group also discovered that mutations in MECP2 cause the postnatal neurological disorder Rett syndrome and revealed the importance of this gene for various neuropsychiatric features. Zoghbi trained over 90 scientists and physician-scientists and is a member of several professional organizations and boards. She has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among Dr. Zoghbi’s honors are the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from Rockefeller University, the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Canada Gairdner International Prize, and Honorary degrees from Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award, American Society of Human Genetics, and most recently the 2020 Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation and the Citation Laureate by Web of Science.

Chair: Dr Steve Pearce, Chair Medical Psychotherapy Faculty Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dr Gwen Adshead, Consultant forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, west London trust

Dr Cleo Van Velsen

Dr Julian Stern, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Professor Louise Gallagher and Professor James Walters

Professor James Walters

Dr Annie Procter

Professor Jehannine Austin

Chair: Dr David Rigby and Romayne Gad el Rab, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust

Dr. Cyrus Abbasian. Consultant Psychiatrist, SW London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer, St. George's University of London; Designated Partner, www.Psychiatry-UK.com

Dr. Mariana Pinto da Costa; Queen Mary University of London

Millie Smith; Head of People Participation, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Diane Goslar, Patient Representative. Currently in recovery

Dr Peter Barham, Psychologist & historian, Chartered psychologist & fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Dr Allan Beveridge, Honorary Fellow, History of Medicine, Edinburgh University.

Dr Claire Hilton, Historian in Residence, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Chair: Dr Alison J Gray,  Chair RCPsych Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG; Senior Lecturer, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Birmingham University, UK

Professor Christopher C.H. Cook, Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health, Durham University, UK

Professor Arjan Braam,  Altrecht Mental health care, Utrecht, The Netherlands; University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Dr Angela Woods, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK

Chair: Prof. Allan Young, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Prof. Rachel Upthegrove, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham

Prof. Stephen Marwaha, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham

Dr. Sameer Jauhar, Academic Psychiatry, King's College London

Chair: Professor Tom KJ Craig, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry

Dr Philip Timms, consultant psychiatrist, National Psychosis Service

Dr Peter Cockersell, Chief Executive, Community Housing and Therapy

Mr John Conolly, Lead Counsellor, Westminster Homeless Health Counselling Service

Chair: Dr Jane Bethea, Consultant in Public Health, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Nottingham City Council

Caroline Turiff, Freelance reporter

Dr Musa Sami, University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Solja Niemelä, Associate Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Turku, Finland