Chair: Tom Ayers, Director of National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Impact of smoking on people with mental disorder and actions to address the implementation gap

Dr Jonathan Campion, Director for Public Mental Health and Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Joint Clinical and Strategic Clinical Director, RCPsych Public Mental Health Implementation Centre, Chair of the Public Mental Health Working Group, World Psychiatric Association

What it will take to end smoking for people with a mental health condition

Hazel Cheeseman, Deputy Chief Executive at Action on Smoking and Health 

Overcoming obstacles to smoking cessation in mental health settings: from local to national actions

Dr Peter Bryne, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Joint Strategic and Clinical Director of Public Mental Health Implementation Centre, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University, London

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

Setting the scene for understanding death anxiety

Dr Rachel Menzies, The University of Sydney

Treating death anxiety

Professor David Veale, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Chair: Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Implications of the climate crisis on mental health

Dr Emma Lawrance, Climate Cares and Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London

Psychotherapeutic perspectives on the climate crisis

Caroline Hickman, University of Bath and Climate Psychology Alliance

How psychiatrists can impact positively on the environment while improving quality of care

Dr Dasal Abayaratne, Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists and ST6 in Psychotherapy

Chair: Dr Rachel Gibbons, Co-chair of the Patient Safety Group and Working Group on the Effect of Suicide and Homicide on Clinicians and Vice-Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty

Patient perspective

Dr Mary Ryan, Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Carer perspective

Jacquie Jamieson, Carer Lay Representative

Clinician and patient

Dr Chloe Beale, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Clinician and manager

Dr Jon Van Niekerk, Cygnet Healthcare

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

Why do outcomes of psychosocial interventions vary widely across studies with refugees?

Dr Alvin Kuowei Tay, MPsych, PhD, Psychosocial Advisor, UNDSS, United Nations, New York, Department of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia, Visiting Professorial Scholar, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA

Iron triangle of immigration policies at the U.S. border - mental health of unaccompanied children

Professor Suzan Joon Song, MD, MPH, PhD, Division of Child and Family Psychiatry, George Washington Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) in refugees and asylum seekers: a systematic review

Professor Cornelius Katona, MD, FRCPsych, Helen Bamber Foundation, London, Division of Psychiatry, University College London

Narrative exposure therapy for survivors of human trafficking: a feasibility randomised controlled trial

Dr Francesca Brady, PhD, Division of Psychology, University College London, Woodfield Trauma Service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Dr Lenny Cornwall, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

An introduction to the theory and practice of RO DBT

Dr Sophie Rushbrook, Head of Psychological Therapy Service, Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust

A review of the evidence base for RO DBT

Dr Roelie Hempel, Co-Director, Radically Open Ltd

Implementation and effectiveness of RO DBT in an NHS adult CMHT

Chair: Professor Fiona Gaughran, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Treatment resistance in psychiatry

Professor Oliver Howes, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Should we prescribe clozapine in children?

Professor James MacCabe, National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Experimental medicine models in psychosis

Professor Mitul Mehta, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Chair: Professor Peter Tyrer, Imperial College London

Aetiology severe COVID anxiety

Professor Mike Crawford, Professor of Mental Health Research, Imperial College London

Prognosis and impact of severe COVID anxiety; does it fade with time?

Dr Jacob King, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Fellow, Imperial College London

Treating severe COVID anxiety; case studies and results of a feasibility trial

Ms Aisling McQuaid, Research Associate, Imperial College London

Chair: Dr Shubulade Smith, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Rajesh Mohan, Royal College of Psychiatrists

The background and development of the Advancing Mental Health Equality resource

Laura-Louise Arundell, Lead Researcher and Developer, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Advancing mental health equality using a quality improvement approach

Matthew Milarski, Quality Improvement Coach

The importance of co-production in advancing mental health equality

Mark Farmer, Patient and Carer Representative at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Chair of Leicestershire Partnership’s People’s Council

Chair: Professor Ian Jones, Congress Co-Chair and Director, National Centre for Mental Health, Cardiff University

What have we learned from women who have died from psychiatric causes in the perinatal period?

Dr Roch Cantwell, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Lead Clinician Perinatal Mental Health Scotland

Mental disorder and risk of serious abuse related harm in young children

Dr Angelika Wieck, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Greater Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester

Neonaticide and infanticide: what does the clinician need to know?

Dr Liz McDonald, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Lead Clinician for HEE funded Perinatal Training Programme at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Visiting Lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

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

Developing new and innovative ways to improve the mental health of students and empower change

Louise Goux-Wirth, Programme Manager for StudentSpace, StudentMinds, UK

Student mental health – time to review the service model

Dr Michele Hill, Consultant Psychiatrist, Student Health Department, University College Cork

Preventing and responding to student suicide in further education and higher education settings

Professor Jo Smith, Emeritus Professor of Early Intervention and Psychosis, University of Worcester

Chair: Professor Fiona Gaughran, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Catatonia: a treatable entity in treatment resistant psychosis

Dr Jonathan Rogers, University College London

Autism and psychotic disorders in adults

Dr Susannah Whitwell, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Can we avoid relapse and treatment resistance in schizophrenia?

Professor Sir Robin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Dr Nicola Kalk, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London

Alcohol use and its association with suicide attempts, suicidal thoughts, and non-suicidal self-harm in a nationally representative English sample

Miss Sarah Ledden, University College London

One size fits all? The different forms of alcohol use in suicidal crisis and their associations with repeated crisis care and death

Mr John Robins, King's College London

Exploring the views of people with personal experience of alcohol, self-harm and suicide

Mr Alex Rossiter, Samaritans

Chair: Dr Rachel Gibbons, Co-chair of the Patient Safety Group and Working Group on the Effect of Suicide and Homicide on Clinicians and Vice-Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty

Is there a root cause? Even if there is - can we ever identify it?

Dr Mayura Deshpande, Chair of the Ethics Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists

The emotional toll of the investigation: personal experience

Dr Elizabeth Venables, East London Foundation Trust

Moving from blaming to learning - how the perspectives and experiences of patients, friends and families can contribute to learning from, and prevention of, serious incidents

Dr Mary Ryan, Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme, Royal College of Psychiatrists

0930 clinic appointment with Skynet? This house believes that the RCPsych should embrace Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in guiding clinical decision making and service development

Chair: Dr Romayne Gad el Rab, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Dr David Rigby, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Discussants

Dr Lia Ali, NHSx

Dr Peter MacRae, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Mark Brown, One in Four Magazine

Delegates will be able to participate in a debate with a twist on the usual format on a hot and often hotly contested topic led by the Digital SIG and involving psychiatrists and a mental health journalist. Delegates will be able to ask questions and take an active role in the debate

Chair: Dr Suhana Ahmed, South West London and St George's NHS Trust

How to write

Professor Rob Poole, Centre for Mental Health and Society, Bangor University

Approaches and the experience of writing

Professor Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham

The RCPsych process

Professor Anne Doherty, UCD School of Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

Chair: Professor Asit Biswas, University of Leicester

Staff training to reduce the overmedication: SPECTROM

Professor Shoumitro (Shoumi) Deb, Imperial College London

Positive behaviour support to reduce the overmedication of people with intellectual disabilities

Mr David Gerrard, St. Nicolas Hospital, Gosforth

Tools to help reduce the overmedication: CONNECT

Chair: Dr Sotiris Posporelis, Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist, KCH, London

A five minute neurological examination

Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive Neurology, Exeter

Cognitive examination beyond the MMSE

Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive Neurology, Exeter

Chair: Dr Thomas Hewson, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

A patient perspective on recording consultations

Mr Nathan Randles, Keele University School of Medicine

Clinical and ethical considerations for the recording of mental health consultations

Dr Adeola Akinola, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester

Legal issues relevant to recorded healthcare interactions

Ms Andrea James, Brabners LLP Law Firm

Impacts of recording on clinical and educational practice

Chair: Professor Sir Robin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Increase in proportion of schizophrenia due to cannabis use in Denmark

Carsten Hjorthøj, University of Copenhagen

Increased incidence of psychosis in Trinidad in the Intrepid Study

Dr Joni Lee Pow, University of the West Indies

Striking increase in incidence of schizophrenia in South London 

Chair: Professor David Cotter, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Complement pathway dysregulation in schizophrenia; prediction of transition from the clinical high risk to psychotic disorder

David Mongan, Queens University Belfast

Response to treatment in first episode psychosis linked to levels of complement and coagulation proteins

Dr Subash Raj Susai, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Dysregulation of complement and coagulation pathways: emerging mechanisms in the development of psychosis

Chair: Dr Dimitrios Chartonas, Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service

The science of the art of pharmacotherapy and the pharmacotherapeutic alliance

Dr David Mintz, The Austen Riggs Centre, MA,USA

The psychodynamics of pharmacologic treatment - resistance

Dr Haroula Konstantinidou, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, MRCPsych, Leicestershire Partnership Trust

Trying to get it right: guidelines and the unconscious processes of prescribing

Mr David Rogalski, Lead Pharmacist, Islington Practice Based Mental Health Team (PBMHT) and Core Mental Health Team

Chair: Dr Sotiris Posporelis, Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist, KCH, London

Multiple sclerosis - depression, fatigue and disease progression

Dr Peter Foley, Consultant Neurologist, Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Edinburgh

Repairing the Parkinsonian brain - where are we?

Professor Roger Barker, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant Neurologist, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair Cambridge

Chair: Dr Maria Papanastassiou, North East London Foundation Trust

Why is suicide so hard to mourn?

Dr Rachel Gibbons, Co-chair of the Patient Safety Group and Working Group on the Effect of Suicide and Homicide on Clinicians and Vice-Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty

Grappling with issues of agency and responsibility - how personal experience can inform clinical understanding

Professor David Mosse, SOAS University

What we have learned working with those bereaved by suicide

Dame Clare Gerada, President, Royal College of General Practitioners

Chair: Professor Owen Bowden-Jones, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London

Substance misuse treatment in sexual health settings

Dr Ann Sullivan, Consultant in Sexual Health, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT

Substance misuse treatment in populations experiencing rough sleeping or homelessness

Dr Emmert Roberts, MRC Clinical Research Fellow, King's College London

Substance misuse treatment in student populations

Dr Joshua Buckman, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University College London and Sophie Hytner, Psychologist, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Professor Jon Grant, University of Chicago

Trans-diagnostic tools for measuring impulsivity: new insights into neurobiology

Professor Sam Chamberlain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton

The role of impulsivity in disordered eating

Dr Konstantinos Ioannidis, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Impulsivity in gambling disorder and gambling-related harms: treatment implications

Chair: Professor Belinda Lennox, University of Oxford

The principles of the Neuroscience based Nomenclature (NbN)

Professor Yossi Zohar, Tel Aviv, Israel

The structure and content of NbN: worked examples of common drug classes

Dr Sue Wilson, Imperial College, London

Putting NbN into practice: mode of action as the message

Chair: Dr Sotiris Posporelis, Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist, KCH, London

Long COVID: a personal journey

Professor Paul Garner, Professor of Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Could this be epilepsy?

Chair: Professor Rachel Upthegrove, University of Birmingham

Top ten facts about schizophrenia

Professor Stephen Lawrie, University of Edinburgh

Top ten facts about bipolar disorder

Dr Sameer Jauhar, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Top ten facts about depression

Chair: Professor Anne Doherty, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UCD School of Medicine, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Head of Courses and E-Learning, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, Editor in Chief, Books Programme, Royal College of Psychiatrists

A national clinical programme for self-harm in the Republic of Ireland - why it was introduced and how it has impacted

Dr Anne Jeffers MB MRCPsych FCpsychI MBA, National Clinical Lead for Self-Harm Clinical Programme 2017- 2021

Presentations following self-harm or with suicide related ideation - clinical data from Republic of Ireland emergency departments 2018 -2021

Dr Katerina Kavalidou MMSc PhD, Database manager, National Clinical Programme for Self-harm and Suicide-related ideation (NCPSHI)

Evaluation of the impact and implementation of a national clinical programme for the management of self- harm in hospital emergency departments

Chair: Dr Ross Dunne, University of Manchester

Inflammation as a therapeutic target in alzheimer's disease

Dr Vanessa Raymont, University of Oxford

Lithium and other inhibitors of tau phosphorylation

Dr Ross Dunne, University of Manchester

Protein production, degradation and glucose metabolism

Chair: Professor Allan Young, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

ADHD and bipolar disorder: development, pathophysiology, comorbidity and pharmacological treatment

Professor Steven Marwaha, University of Birmingham 

Rhythms and blues: dynamics of bipolar disorder; implications for prevention and intervention

Professor Kathleen Merikangas, NIMH, Washington D.C., USA

Treatment efficacy for rapid cycling in people with bipolar disorder: a meta-analytic evidence synthesis

Dr Rebecca Strawbridge, King's College London

Let us start at the very beginning - pathophysiology and treatment of first episode mania

Chair: Dr Sotiris Posporelis, Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist, KCH, London

Late neurosurgical complications of brain injury

Mr John Emelifeonwu, Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neurosciences Edinburgh

Early management of a patient found unconscious

Chair: Dr Chrishanthy Grace Jayarajah, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Hillingdon Perinatal Mental Health Service CNWL

Childhood adversity and the transition to motherhood: implications for a female prison population

Dr Hannah Kate Williams, ST7 Specialist Registrar Forensic Psychotherapy, South West London, St Georges and Dr Gwen Adshead, Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, West London Trust

Perinatal mental health in prisons compared to community

Dr Caroline Pontvert, Consultant Perinatal psychiatrist

A complex case on prison MBU

Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Shared decision-making and psychiatric genetics

Dr David Crepaz-Keay, Head of Applied Learning, Mental Health Foundation

Genetics and epigenetics of mental disorders

Dr Christopher Murgatryod, Reader in Genetics, Manchester Metropolitan University

Genetic counselling in serious mental illness

Professor Jehannine Austin, Professor, University of British Columbia, Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics and Executive Director of the British Columbia Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute

Chair: Dr Jessica A Eccles, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Complex chronic conditions: the connection with hypermobility and neurodivergence

Dr Jessica A Eccles, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Neurodevelopmental atypisms in the context of joint hypermobility, hypermobility spectrum disorders and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes

Carolina Baeza-Velasco, University of Paris, University Hospital of Montpellier, France

Pain in autism

Chair: Dr Ros Ramsey, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Specialist advisor for the Psychiatrist Support Service

A discussion of our experience following a patient suicide

Dr Anne Carbonnier and Dr Rachel Gibbons, Co-chair of the Patient Safety Group and Working Group on the Effect of Suicide and Homicide on Clinicians and Vice-Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty

Facilitated discussion of the emotional effect on clinicians of a patients death by suicide

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Chair: Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, MD, FRCPsych, DLAPA, FAES, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Research integrity: bad...but getting better?

Dr William Lee, MBChB, MRCPsych, MSc, PhD, University of Exeter

Discussant

Professor Allan Young, MBChB, MPhil, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, MD, FRCPsych, DLAPA, FAES, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Professor Stephen Lawrie, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Professor Kamaldeep Bhui CBE, University of Oxford

Chair: Dr Cate Bailey, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Going through an actual paper to review

Professor Patricia Casey, Hermitage Medical Clinic and University College Dublin

Reflections from the New Reviewer Programme - from a mentor

Dr Alexandra Pitman, UCL Division of Psychiatry

Reflections from the New Reviewer Programme - from a new reviewer

Chair: Judge Mark Sutherland Williams, Chamber President of the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber in England

How mental disorders in adults, children and young people come to the attention of the Family Court, and how they present

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

How physical disorders in children and young people come to the attention of the Family Court and the overlap between paediatric services and child and adolescent mental health services

Dr Stephanie Tolan, Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, MA in Medical Ethics and Law, King’s College London

Parenting Assessments for families in crisis

Mrs Jenny Cross JP CQSW, Specialist Lay Member of the Mental Health Tribunal, and Member JP and CQSW

Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Consultant Adult and Perinatal Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Making public mental health central to the College’s work

Dr Adrian James, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Consultant Psychiatrist

Public mental health: an agenda for action by the World Psychiatric Association

Dr Afzal Javed, President of the World Psychiatric Association

The importance of public mental health: a lived experience perspective

Sian Ogle, Patient Representative, Public Mental Health Implementation Centre, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Public mental health: the case for action and the RCPsych’s Public Mental Health Implementation Centre

Chair: Dr Katherine Beck, King's College London and Professor Oliver Howes, King's College London

The association between N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor availability and glutamate levels: a multi-modal PET-MR brain imaging study in first episode psychosis

Dr Katherine Beck, King's College London

Measuring offline replay in schizophrenia and the potential relevance for cognition

Dr Matthew Nour, Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

What underlies treatment response in schizophrenia?

Professor Oliver Howes, King's College London

Chair: Professor Ian Jones, University of Cardiff

Non-invasive neurostimulation for the treatment of depression during pregnancy – how much progress have we made?

Professor Simone Vigod, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Psychotherapy needs in pregnancy

Dr Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist West London Trust

Medication plasma levels in pregnancy: what do we know and what do we need to do in clinical practice?

Dr Angelika Wieck, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester

Chair: Dr Ian Hall, Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust, and Chief Examiner, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Terrors of the Past

Dr Ken Courtenay, Consultant Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disability, Barnet Enfield and Haringey MH NHS Trust London, Chair, Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, Royal College of Psychiatrists 

When the policeman calls

Dr David O'Regan, Consultant Psychiatrist in Sleep Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, London, President of the Sleep Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Punching the Wall

Dr Alexander Nesbitt, Consultant Neurologist in Sleep Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, London

Chair: Dr Declan Hyland, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, the Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry

The under-utilised resource of undergraduate education in psychiatry: global to local perspectives

Dr Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa 

How is undergraduate psychiatry being delivered across UK medical schools?

Ms Deepika Sharma and Dr India Lunn

Supporting and inspiring medical students in undergraduate psychiatry

Dr Thomas Hewson

Chair: Dr Sarah Eales, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth University

Suicide and criminal justice

Dr Andrew Molodynski, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Suicide-related police and court interventions in practice: a patient perspective

Dr Emma McAllister, Expert by Experience

Criminal sanctions for suicidality: a scoping review

Dr Alex Thomson, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Vice Chair, RCPsych Liaison Psychiatry Faculty

Chair: Professor David Taylor, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College, London

Winding back the clock? Potential reversibility of hypothyroidism after lithium discontinuation

Ingrid Lieber, Umeå University, Sweden

Point of no return? Potential reversibility of renal damage after lithium discontinuation 

Filip Fransson, Umeå University, Sweden

Statistically significant or clinically relevant? Cardiac changes during lithium intoxication

Chair: Dr Regi Alexander, Associate Dean for Advanced Learning and Conferences

The ICD-11 is the first comprehensive revision of the ICD in 30 years, and incorporates major advances in scientific evidence, best clinical practices, and health information systems. The WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use has led the development of the Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural or Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CDDR), which provide the information needed by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to reliably apply the ICD-11 classification of Mental, Behavioral or Neurodevelopmental Disorders in their work with patients. 

This presentation will provide an overview of the ICD-11 mental disorders classification and the CDDR and their development and describe important innovations relative to ICD-10. An important innovation is the incorporation of dimensional approaches within a categorical system. New disorders have been added to the ICD-11, several of which have generated controversy, and a substantial number have been deleted. The Cartesian separation of “organic” and “non-organic” disorders has largely been eliminated. Importantly, ICD-10 gender identity disorders have been reformulated as gender incongruence of adolescence and adulthood and gender incongruence of childhood and are no longer considered mental disorders.

The transition to a new version of the ICD requires careful planning at the national and health system level to guarantee functionality, interoperability of systems, and quality of data. Early engagement in the transition, such as is occurring in Scotland, leads to improved identification of local needs and the opportunity to design change management approaches. National professional societies such as the Royal College of Psychiatrists will be fundamental in the development and implementation of country-specific transition and implementation plans for ICD-11, as well as in the training of the health care workforce. 

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Chair: Professor Rafey Faruqui, University of Kent

Neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Professor Shoumitro (Shoumi) Deb, Imperial College London

Neural substrate of neuropsychiatric manifestation of TBI

Dr Lucia Li, Imperial College London

Treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Dr Niruj Agrawal, St. George's University Hospital, London

Chair: Dr Mihaela Bucur, Associate Registrar for Well-being and Retention, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Moral injury – what is it and what to do about it?

Professor Neil Greenberg, Professor of Defence Mental Health, King's College London

A model of care for healthcare staff: dealing with the Impacts of secondary stressors

Professor Richard Williams OBE, Professor Emeritus of Mental Health Strategy, University of South Wales, Presidential Lead for COVID-19, Emergency Preparedness and Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Organisational culture and accountability for staff well-being

Dr Ananta Dave, Chief Medical Officer designate for the Black Country Integrated Care System/Board

Chair: Saul Levin, MD, MPA, FRCP-E, FRCPsych

James R. (Bob) Batterson, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP

Gino A Mortillaro, MD

Chair: Professor Louise Howard, King's College London

A service user perspective on preconception care

Dr Clare Dolman, Bipolar UK and King's College London

Healthy conversations during routine reviews (e.g. CPA)

Chris McCree, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 

What should preconception care include? A brief evidence review

Professor Louise Howard, King's College London

Chair: Belinda Lennox, University of Oxford

What works for treatment resistant schizophrenia?

Professor Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge

How to start clozapine in a patient friendly way and is it cost-effective?

Professor Oliver Howes, Imperial College London

Robert Kerwin prize winning talk

Dr Jurjen Luykx, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Translational Neuroscience, UMC Utrecht Brain Center

Chair: Professor I Nicol Ferrier, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Newcastle University

How to manage a pandemic with Malaria Fever Therapy? General Paralysis of the Insane in the early 20th century

Dr Ingrid M. Daey Ouwens, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland

Convulsive and electroconvulsive therapy, a UK perspective from 1922-1944

Professor Steven Jones, University of Chester, and Mr Colin Jones

“Shock therapies” – perspective(s) from Berlin Charité (-1949)

Dr Lara Rzesnitzek, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Chair: Professor Fiona Gaughran, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and King’s College London and Dr Toby Pillinger, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and King’s College London

Reducing the risk of hospital associated venous thromboembolism in psychiatric settings

Professor Beverley Hunt OBE, King’s Healthcare Partners and Medical Director of Thrombosis UK

What do psychiatrists need to know about diabetes management?

Dr Sophie Harris, Consultant Diabetologist, King’s College Hospital and Deputy Clinical Director, Health Innovation Network

Rapid tips on physical health in the mental health of older adults ward

Dr Conor Maguire, Consultant Geriatrician, Western General Hospital Edinburgh and International Vice President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Chair: Dr Shubhangi Karmakar, Trainee Editorial Editor, British Journal of Psychiatry, Academic Intern, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Reviewer, International Journal of Medical Ethics, Race and Ethnicity Advisory Group, NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, Journalist, Medical Independent, Sunday Business Post

Global perspectives in psychiatry: education, inclusion and outreach

Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Chairperson, Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Global perspectives in psychiatry: education, inclusion and outreach

Professor Lisa Fore-Arcand, President of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP, USA), Assistant Dean, Continuing Medical Education, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Global perspectives in psychiatry: education, inclusion and outreach

Professor Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Professor and Head, Dept of Psychiatry, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Tiruvalla, Secretary General, World Psychiatric Association, Geneva (2014-2020), President, World Association of Social Psychiatry (2016-19), President, Indian Psychiatric Society (2012-13)

Chair: Dr Brad Hillier, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, West London NHS Trust, Chair, Health and Justice Liaison Group Project Sagamore

An introduction to Chemsex and its association with mental illness

Dr Elliott Carthy, Specialty Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

What are the current psychosocial treatments available?

Monty Moncrieff, Chief Executive London Friend, providing Antidote Service

The interface between sexual health, drug use and mental health

Dr Mark Pakianathan, Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Professor David Nutt, Imperial College London

Ketamine assisted therapy – the results of the new KARE trial in alcohol use disorder

Professor Celia Morgan, Exeter University and Awaknlifesciences

MDMA assisted psychotherapy for alcohol use disorder

Dr Laurie Higbed, Imperial College London

Drowning on daily opioids to flourishing on long-acting injectable buprenorphine: a Welsh pandemic success story.

Professor Jan Melichar, Wales NHS