International Congress 2021 Keynote Presentations

 

Slides and presentations

Thank you for attending the RCPsych Virtual International Congress. Please find below all of the available keynote speaker presentations from the event. If any more are made available, they will be uploaded here. 

These slides have been made available with kind permission of the speakers, and are intended for use only by the delegates that attended the meeting.

Please note these presentations are the intellectual property of the speaker and any unauthorised broadcasting/copying of any presentation is strictly prohibited.

Monday 21 June

KN1 President’s Opening Lecture
Dr Adrian James, President Royal College of Psychiatrists

KN2 Social justice, health equity and Covid-19 
Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA Director of the Institute of Health Equity (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)

KN3 Coming to terms with covid: Many different kinds of love
Michael Rosen, Author and poet

KN4 Neuroscience of Addiction: where are we?
Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes, Head, Centre for Psychiatry and Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College London

KN5 Chief Executive’s Address
Paul Rees, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Tuesday 22 June

KN6 When we’re over Covid- what have we learned in mental health
Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft, Professor of Community Psychiatry, King’s College London

KN7 Molecular mechanisms of gene x early adversity interactions: implications for psychiatric disorders
Professor Elisabeth Binder, Director, Dept. of Translational Research in Psychiatry Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Professor Catherine Harmer, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford

KN9 Genes, Environment, and Eating Disorders: What the Clinician Needs to Know
Professor Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Karolinska Institutet

Wednesday 23 June

KN10 Untangling complexity in our patients: trauma and neurodevelopment
Professor Helen Minnis, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

KN11 In Conversation With… 
Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief, The BMJ

Dr Vivian Pender, President APA

KN13 Reflecting and looking forward: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon mental health
Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government

Thursday 24 June

KN14 Clinging On In Covid Times
Dr Rachel Clarke, Palliative Care Doctor and Author

KN15 Speaking the Unspoken - Culture, Trauma and Perinatal Psychopathology
Professor Prabha Chandra, Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore

KN16 Rapid-Acting Antidepressants: New treatments, new hope, and new insights into the brain
Dr John Krystal, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Department of Psychiatry

KN17 Insight into neuropsychiatric disorders from the study of Rett Syndrome
Professor Huda Zoghbi, Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and winner of the 2020 Brain Prize

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

 

 


 





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