Programme

 

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  • 11.00 - 13.00 Registration
  • 13.00 - 13.05 Welcome
  • 13.05 - 13.30 KN1 President's Opening Lecture
  • 13.30 - 14.00 KN2 Melanie Reid, Journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times
  • 14.00 - 14.30 KN3 Professor Andrew McIntosh, Chair of Biological Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
  • Chair: Dr Sridevi Kalidindi, CBE, National Clinical Lead for Mental Health Rehabilitation, GIRFT, NHS England and NHS Improvement
    NICE guidance for people with complex psychosis and related conditions
    Professor Helen Killaspy, University College London
    Addressing the human cost of disinvestment in rehabilitation services
    Carer Representative, Rehabilitation & Social Executive Committee, Royal College Psychiatrists
    Improvement methodology for implementing NICE guidance: from teams to whole system
    Dr Rajesh Mohan, Chair of Rehabilitation Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists
     
  • Chair: Dr Peter Aitken, Director of Research & Development, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Honorary Associate Professor, University of Exeter Medical School
    Hypnotherapy for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
    Professor Peter Whorwell, Consultant Gastroenterologist, University of Manchester
    The Nature of Hypnosis for Dissociative Neurological Symptom Disorder
    Dr Jason Price, Consultant Neuropsychologist, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    The Body keeps the Score. (How to integrate hypnotic techniques into the Liaison Psychiatric service.)
    Kate Chartres, Nurse Consultant Liaison Psychiatry, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
     
  • Chair: Dr Fiona Gaughran, Lead Consultant, National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Reader, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
    Cannabis and violence: is any association mediated by Paranoia?
    National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
    Treatment resistant psychosis in children and adolescents
    Dr Johnny Downs Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and Dr Marinos Kyriakopoulos, CAMHS, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
    Mechanisms underlying treatment response in schizophrenia
    Professor Sukhi Shergill, National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
     
  • Chair: Dr Lenny Cornwall, Consultant Psychiatrist, Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust
    The employer perspective – what knowledge and skills are employers looking for?
    Dr Lenny Cornwall, Consultant Psychiatrist, Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust
    The trainee perspective – what do trainees get from leadership training and what can they get?
    Dr Alex Till, Dr Alex Till, Specialty Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry & Chair of the Psychiatric Trainees Committee 2018-19, Royal College of Psychiatrists
    The College perspective – what does the College understand to be the leadership role for psychiatrists and how will the new higher training curricula support this?
    Dr Helen Crimlisk, Deputy Medical Director, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Trust; Associate Registrar,Leadership and Management, Royal College of Psychiatrists
     
  • Chair: Professor Mike Crawford, Professor in Mental Health Research, Centre for Psychiatry, Imperial College, London
    The essential elements of the ICD-11 classification of personality disorders
    Professor Peter Tyrer, Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry, Imperial College, London
    Where have all the labels gone?: the domain structure of ICD-11 personality disorders
    Professor Roger Mulder, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Otago
    Implications of ICD-11 personality disorders in clinical practice: an eight-year clinical trial
    Dr Rahil Sanatinia, Research Associate, Centre for Psychiatry, Imperial College, London
     
  • 15.50 - 16.20 Tea
  • Chair: Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anaesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; New Jersey, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London
    Ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness: a new approach
    Professor Kamaldeep S. Bhui, CBE, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRCPsych; Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology, Centre Lead for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist, East London Foundation Trust, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
    Unravelling the complexities of inequalities in mental health care and outcomes for cultural and linguistic minorities
    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
    Mental health care for the underserved in Brazil
    Professor Sara Evans–Lacko, PhD; Associate Professor, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science
    Health system strengthening for mental health in low- and middle-income countries: introduction to the Emerald programme
    Professor Mark Jordans, PhD; Professor of Global Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, and Director, Research and Development, War Child Holland, The Netherlands; Reader in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Humanitarian Settings, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
     
  • Chair: Professor Peter Tyrer, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Imperial College, London
    Pathological illness worries (health/illness anxiety) in the general population:The DanFunD study
    Professor Per Fink, Head of the Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital
    Multi-centre randomised controlled trial (RCT) for health anxiety in primary and general hospital care: clinical and economic outcomes
    Professor Richard Morriss, Professor of Psychiatry and Community Mental Health, University of Nottingham
    Health anxiety and its management in medical settings 
    Professor Peter Tyrer, Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry, Imperial College, London
     
  • Chair: Dr Fiona Gaughran, Lead Consultant, National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Reader, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
    Personalised Psychiatry for Psychosis; preliminary results from the MRC-STRATA Programme
    Professor James MacCabe, National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
    A fine balance; quality and safe use of clozapine
    Professor Dan Siskind, Conjoint Principal Research Fellow, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
    Inflammation, Poo and Psychosis
    Professor Iris Sommer, Director of Research Institute Brain and Cognition, UMCG, University of Groningen
     
  • Chair: Dr Ross Runciman, Chair Psychiatric Trainees' Committee 19/20 - Royal College of Psychiatrists
    Dr Ros Ramsay, Specialist Advisor for the Psychiatry Support Service 
    Consultant Psychiatrist/Deputy Medical Director, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, National Psychosis Unit - Tony Hillis Unit, Lambeth Hospital/Trust HQ Maudsley Hospital
    Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Past President of the World Psychiatric Association. Past President of the British Medical Association

    Dr Alpana Rose
     
  • 17.35 - 18.10 KN4 Dr Rob Poole, Consultant Psychiatrist
  • 18.10 - 18.45 KN5 Pat Sowa
  • 18.45 - 19.30 Welcome Reception
  • 8.00 - 9.00 Registration and coffee
  • 9.00 - 9.30 KN6 Dr Claire Murdoch, NHS England National Mental Health Director
  • 9.30 - 10.00 KN7 Professor Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor, Wellcome Research Fellow, University College London
  • Chair: Prof Allan H Young, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
    Childhood maltreatment and the physical burden of patients with bipolar disorders
    Prof. Bruno Etain, University Paris Diderot and Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, France
    Telomere length is associated with childhood trauma experiences in patients with a severe mental disorder
    Dr Monica Aas, NORMENT K.G Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
    HPA axis, Genetic Biomarkers and Early Life Stress impact in Affective disorders
    Dr Mario F P Juruena, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
     
  • Chair: Prof Alan Carson, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
    Neurological examination for psychiatrists
    Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter
    Cognitive examination beyond the mini mental state
    Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter
     
  • Chair: Prof Anne Lingford-Hughes, Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London
    Introducing ADHD: diagnosis, comorbidities, and neurobiology
    Dr Samuel Chamberlain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
    How does ADHD present across the lifespan, and how do services handle it? Findings from the CATCh-uS project
    Professor Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
    Evidence-based treatment of ADHD in children and adolescents
    Prof Samuele Cortese, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton
     
  • Chair: Julia Sinclair, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, University of Southampton

    Fighting The Friendly Foe. Personal Experience of Alcohol Addiction
    Diane Goslar, Expert by Experience

    Our Invisible Addicts; The changing face of alcohol and drug addiction
    Dr Tony Rao, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrists, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

    Frightened, alone and away from home” Personal experience of drug addiction and co-morbid mental disorder
    Rachel Bannister, Expert by Experience

  • Chair: Dr Joanne Black, Devon Partnership NHS Trust

    Suicidality in the Perinatal Period: A Service-User Perspective
    Expert by experience
    Suicide in Women with Perinatal Mental Disorders
    Dr Karyn Ayre, Section of Women’s Mental Health (SWMH), Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
    Perinatal Suicide in Low and Middle-Income Countries
    Dr Gertrude Seneviratne, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

     
  • 11.25 - 11.50 Coffee
  • Chair: Prof Julia Sinclair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton
    Alcohol use disorder as the archetypal addiction: definitions, neural circuitry, and evidence-based treatment
    Prof Anne Lingford-Hughes, Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London
    From recreational gambling, to problem gambling, to gambling disorder: how does it progress and when should we intervene?
    Professor Jon Grant, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago
    The role of technology in addiction
    Dr Samuel Chamberlain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
     
  • Chair: Dr Jon Stone, Professor of Neurology, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dissociative Seizures: the CODES trial outcome data
    Professor of Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
    Functional cauda equine syndrome
    Dr Ingrid Hoeritzauer, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
     
  • Chair: Dr Angelika Wieck, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
    Influence of maternal depression on foetal growth and neonatal neurobehavioural development
    Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Lab, Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College London

    Review of the evidence regarding the possible association between autism spectrum disorders and in utero SSRI exposure
    Professor Ian Jones, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University
    Prescription of valproate-containing medicines in women of childbearing potential with psychiatric disorders – is it worth the risk?
    Professor David Baldwin, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
     
  • Chair: Dr Niall Boyce, Editor, The Lancet Psychiatry
    Scientific journals and social media: an unhappy marriage?
    The British Journal of Psychiatry
    Facilitating democratic conversations about mental health research: welcome to the woodland!
    André Tomlin, The Mental Elf
    “Why on earth would you want to do that?”: One psychiatrist’s experience of writing for the mainstream media
    Dr Mariam Alexander, West London NHS Trust
     
  • From UK Military Mental Health to Civilian Care: Lessons Across Populations
    Professor (Sir) Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London
    Australian Military Mental Health, PTSD and Suicide: How Does Risk Change Over Time
    Professor David Forbes, Phoenix Australia-Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
    Trauma and Stress Disorders in the US Military: Learning more about PTSD, Suicide and TBI
    Professor Robert J Ursano, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland USA
     
  • 13.10 - 14.00 Lunch
  • 13.35 - 14.00 Rapid fire presentations
  • 14.05 - 14.35 KN8 Professor Michael Meaney, Professor of Medicine, McGill University
  • 14.35 - 15.05 KN9 Professor David Nutt, Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London
  • Chair: Professor Rupert Mcshane, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Department of Psychiatry
    Medical cannabis: The future is green
    Dr Chloe Sakal, Drug Science
    MDMA therapy for treating alcoholism
    Dr Ben Sessa, Imperial College London
    Psilocybin therapy for treating depression
    Dr Tim Williams, Clinical Director AWP
     
  • Chair: Prof Alan Carson, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
    What’s new in prion disease
    Reader in Biochemistry, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh
    Genetic therapies in neurodegenerative diseases
    Dr Edward Wild, UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre, University College London
     
  • Chair: Dr Samuel Chamberlain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
    Is there still a role for MAOI treatment in patients with treatment-resistant depression?
    Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London Kings College London
    When might MAOI treatment be an option in patients with anxiety (or anxiety-related) disorders?
    Professor David Baldwin, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
    How to balance potential benefit and risk when developing guidance on potential MAOI treatment.
    Dr Antonio Metastasio, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
     
  • Chair: Professor of Mental Health & Capacity Law, Edinburgh Napier Universty
    The Alternative Review of the Mental Health Act (England): Challenges for Scotland to do better
    Akiko Hart, Chief Executive Officer, National Survivor User Network
    What could be achieved in the review of Scotland’s act and what should we learn (or not) from other jurisdictions’ Act’s and the English Independent Review?
    Medical Director, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
    The review of the Scottish Mental Health Act: Interim Report and progress
    Colin Mckay, Review Executive Committee Member & Chief Executive, Mental Welfare Commission
     
  • Chair: Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychiatry, KCL
    A psychiatrists experience of his own mental illness
    Consultant in Neuropsychiatry, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, Hon. Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University of Birmingham
    A medical student’s experience of his own mental illness
    Mr Usama Ali, Medical Student, Imperial College London
    How medical students and doctors can access help and treatment for mental illness
    Clare Gerada, MD of NHS Practitioner service
     
  • 16.25 - 16.45 Tea
  • Chair: Professor Anthony David, Director, UCL Institute of Mental Health, London
    Social adversity, Salience processing and Dopamine
    Dr Rob McCutcheon, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, KCL, London
    Structural Brain changes mediate the association between environmental risk factors and psychotic experiences in young people
    Dr Kate Merritt, Research Fellow, University College London
    Social stress and Proteomic prediction models for transition to psychosis in the At Risk Mental State
    Professor David Cotter, Professor of Molecular Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
    Adversity and the Brain in Psychosis – future directions for research
    Professor Avi Reichenberg, Professor of Psychiatry and Environment and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and Reader in Epidemiology, Department of Psychosis Studies Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London
     
  • Chair: Prof Jon stone, Professor of Neurology, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh

    Do footballers get more dementia?
    Daniel Mackay, University of Glasgow

    A clinical approach to traumatic brain injury patients
    Prof Alan Carson, Centre for Clinical Brain sciences, University of Edinburgh
  • Chair: Prof Rupert McShane, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Dept Psychiatry, University of Oxford
    Ketamine to prevent Alcohol RElapse (KARE): an MRC funded study in Exeter and UCL
    Professor Celia Morgan, Professor of Psychopharmacology, Exeter University
    Open label extension data from an RCT of daily oral esketamine from Netherlands
    Prof Robert Schoevers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, Netherlands
    Use of ketamine and related antidepressants in UK
    Prof Rupert McShane, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Dept Psychiatry, University of Oxford
     
  • Chair: Nikki Nabavi, University of Manchester
    Online Risks for the Mental Health of Young People
    Dr Jon Goldin, FRCPsych, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Specialty Lead DCAMH, Joint Training Programme Director, Vice-Chair CAP Faculty, RCPsych, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health
    Net gains?? Exploring the brighter side of social media and young people’s mental health
    Dr James Woollard, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. National Specialty Advisor in Digital Mental Health, NHS England and Improvement
    Lived experience of being online and in the public eye
    TBC
     
  • 18.10 - 19.00 Film screening and Q and A – Magic Medicine: Can Magic Mushrooms Cure Depression - Professor David Nutt
  • 8.00 Registration and coffee
  • 8.0 - 9.00 KN10 APA President
  • 9.00 - 9.30 KN11
  • Chair: Dr Kate Lovett, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists
    Alzheimer’s Disease in Down Syndrome: a Genetic Condition with Variable Onset
    Prof. Andre Strydom, Professor of Intellectual Disabilities
    Genetic Testing in Clinical Practice: Towards a Cross-disciplinary Framework
    Consultant Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disability, Forensic Network Clinical Lead for Intellectual Disabilities
    Single Gene Disorders: Relevance to Patients, Families, and Clinicians
    Dr Lindsay Mizen, Consultant Psychiatrist West Lothian Community Learning Disability Team, Senior Clinical Research Fellow University of Edinburgh
     
  • Chair: Prof. Sophia Frangou, Research Chair in Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Canada and Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
    Brain correlates of psychopathology in children growing up in social disadvantaged or enriched environments
    Prof. Sophia Frangou, Research Chair in Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Canada and Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
    The course of anhedonia in depression: insights from a multi-modal, longitudinal neuroimaging study
    Dr Argyris Stringaris, Chief, Mood Brain & Development Unit, National Institute of Mental Health and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Georgetown University, USA
    Trajectory of brain structural development in young individuals at familial risk of mood disorder?
    Dr Heather Whalley, Reader in Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
     
  • Chair: Dr Sarah Markham, Visiting Researcher, Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
    Inside the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Reflections from a NICE Scholarship
    Dr. Howard Ryland, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
    No Quality without Equality! Advancing Mental Health Equality to improve outcomes for all
    Dr Shubulade Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, Clinical Director, Forensic Services, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Clinical Director National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH), Royal College of Psychiatrists
    Getting It Right First Time in Rehabilitation: A National Programme Supporting Transforming Lives
    Dr Sridevi Kalidindi, Consultant Psychiatrist in Rehabilitation & Recovery SLaM NHS FT, National Clinical Lead, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Mental Health Rehabilitation, NHS England & Innovation (NHSE&I), NHSE Clinical Entrepreneur, NHSE&I and Visiting Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IOPPN)
     
  • Chair: Eva Petkova, PhD, Professor, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA and Senior Researcher, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
    Machine learning for psychiatric research: Current reality and future prospects
    Melanie Wall, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health and Director of Mental Health Data Science in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
    Latent variables and structural equation modelling for contemporary mental health research
    Irini Moustaki, PhD, Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science
    Lying with statistics
    Steve Kisely, MD, PhD, DMedRes, Professor, Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland
     
  • Chair: Professor Angela Hassiotis, UCL Division of Psychiatry and Camden and Islington Foundation NHS Trust
    The clinical and ethical imperative to optimise medication use
    Dr Rory Sheehan, University College London and East London NHS Foundation Trust
    Challenges to making medication decisions
    Dr Dheeraj Rai, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Bristol

    Multi-stakeholder solutions to achieve medication optimisation
    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
     
  • 10.55 - 11.25 Coffee
  • Chair: Prof John O’Brien, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
    Can we prevent dementia?
    Prof Craig Ritchie, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
    Can imaging detect changes 20 years before dementia onset?
    Prof John O’Brien, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
    Virtual reality as a putative tool for the early diagnosis of dementia
    Ms Coco Newton, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
     
  • Chair: Dr. Ken Courtenay, Chair, Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, Royal College of Psychiatrists
    The patient experience
    Phillip Wills

    The Dutch experience
    Dr Gerda de Kuijper, MD, intellectual disability physician, Centre for Intellectual Disability and Mental Health GGZ Drenthe, Assen, the Netherlands/senior researcher University Medical Centre Groningen/department psychiatry, the Netherlands

    The UK experience
    Dr Rohit Shankar MBE, FRCPsych Consultant in Adult Developmental Neuropsychiatry Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & Associate Professor (Hon.)/Senior Clinical Lecturer University of Exeter Medical School
     
  • Chair: Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anaesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; New Jersey, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London; London, UK
    Getting published: practice tips for students, trainees, and tenacious researchers
    Professor Kamaldeep S. Bhui, CBE, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRCPsych; Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology, Centre Lead for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist, East London Foundation Trust, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London

    Predatory journals and dubious publishers: how to avoid being their prey
    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

    RCPsych – Cambridge University Press portfolio: an update on quality open access journals
    Professor Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anaesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; New Jersey, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

    The changing landscape of publishing and Plan S
    Ms. Ann Avouris, BA; Executive Publisher, Journals at Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
     
  • Chair: Dr Ken Busch, Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association
    Psychotherapy training in psychiatry in the UK and the US
    Dr Jessica Yakeley, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London

    The Royal College of Psychiatrists Medical Student Psychotherapy Scheme Strategy
    Dr Sarah Majid, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London 

    Psychotherapy with the LGBT population in the US
    Dr James R. Batterson, UMKC School of Medicine, Immediate Past Speaker, Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association

    Comparing and contrasting perspectives on psychotherapy in psychiatry from both sides of the Atlantic
    Dr Joseph Napoli, Speaker-Elect, Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association
     
  • Chair: Dr Kate Lovett, Royal College of Psychiatrists
    The whys and wherefores of research training.
    Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

    How to publish: (crystal clear) points means prizes. Writing abstracts and posters
    Dr Sam Chamberlain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

    Navigating the submission maze: what do publishers look for in a good paper?
    Dr Niall Boyce, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Psychiatry
     
  • 12.45 - 13.40 Lunch
  • 13.20 - 13.45 Rapid fire presentations
  • 13.50 - 14.00 KN12 Chief Executive's Address - Paul Rees, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • 14.00 - 14.30 KN13 Professor Alan Carson, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
  • Chair: Prof John O’Brien, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

    Watch your step: Potential clinical applications of gait analysis in dementia
    Dr Ríona Mc Ardle, Newcastle University

    New insights from Epigenetics: DNA methylation alterations in Lewy Body Dementia
    Dr Leo Chouliaras, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

    Improving the diagnosis and management of Lewy body dementia: The DIAMOND-Lewy study
    Prof John O’Brien, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
     
  • Chair: Tom Ayers, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

    Saiqa Akhtar, NCCMH, Quality Improvement Coach

    Kate Lorrimer, NCCMH, Quality Improvement Coach
     
  • Chair: Dr Andreas Papadopoulos, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

    Why “difficult to treat depression” rather than “treatment resistant depression”
    Dr Koen Demyttenaere, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven

    How to manage difficult to treat depression
    Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams, Newcastle University

    Treatment of other sleep problems
    TBC
     
  • 15.45 - 16.10 Tea
  • Chair: Philip Asherson, King’s College London

    Assessment, research findings & reasonable adjustments
    Jane Sedgwick-Müller, King’s College London

    Pharmacological treatment of ADHD
    Philip Asherson, King’s College London

    Service models & management of co-morbidity
    Ulrich Müller-Sedgwick, Barnet Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust & University of Cambridge
     
  • Chair: Vanessa Ford, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

    Sally Smith

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

    Improving sexual safety in mental health inpatient settings: A National Quality Improvement Collaborative
    Dr Matthew Milarski, Quality Improvement Coach, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
     
  • Chair: Dr Chris O’Loughlin, Head of School East of England

    Taking the lead – the trainee’s role in personalised training
    Royal Navy – Institute of Naval Medicine, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

    Supporting International Graduates – using personalised training to address differential attainment
    Dr Saadia Alvi, Speciality Training Registrar, South Yorkshire. 

    International Medical Graduates representative to Royal College
    Dr Charlotte Blewett Consultant Psychiatrist in Student Mental Health and Old Age Psychiatry, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
     
  • Chair: Dr Maire Cooney, Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry Grater Clyde and Glasgow NHS Trust

    The use of novel stimulants in the general population and LGBT+ community
    Derek Tracy, King's College London

    The social context of drinking amongst LGBT+ people in Scotland
    Carol Emslie, Glasgow Caledonian University

    Understanding the pleasure and benefits of drug use
    Ian Hamilton, University of York
     
  • 17.30 - 18.45 AGM and Presentation Ceremony
  • 8.00 - 9.00 Registration and coffee
  • 9.00 - 9.30 KN14 Professor Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex
  • Chair: Professor Eileen Joyce, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

    Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS) for Mental Illness
    Dr Eduardo Cinosi, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

    Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Mental Illness
    Professor Richard Morriss, Professor of Psychiatry & Community Mental Health Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

    Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Severe Mental Illness
    Professor Eileen Joyce, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
     
  • Chair: Professor David Baldwin, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton

    Schizophrenia is associated with adverse changes in cardiac structure independent of conventional cardio-metabolic risk factors: a cardiac MR imaging study
    Dr Emanuele Osimo, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London; University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

    Comparative effects of 18 antipsychotics on metabolic function in schizophrenia: a network meta-analysis
    Dr Toby Pillinger, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London

    Modification of lifestyle risk factors in patients undergoing antipsychotic drug treatment
    Dr Adrian Heald, School of Medicine, University of Manchester
     
  • Chair: Dr Liz McDonald, Clinical Lead for PMH Bursary Programme, RCPsych, Visiting Lecturer, Tavistock and Portman Trust, Hon. Consultant, ELFT

    Bipolar disorder and Postpartum Psychosis – can we individualise risk?
    Professor Ian Jones, Cardiff University

    Schizophrenia in women: what risk issues need to be considered in the perinatal period?
    Dr Liz McDonald, Clinical Lead for PMH Bursary Programme, RCPsych, Visiting Lecturer, Tavistock and Portman Trust, Hon. Consultant, ELFT

    Reducing risk of maternal suicide: lessons from the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths
    Dr Roch Cantwell, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Lead Clinician, Perinatal Mental Health Network Scotland
     
  • Chair: Dr Sophie Thomson, Chair of VIPSIG at RCPsych

    What is humanitarian psychiatry?
    Dr Lynne Jones, FXB Center for Health and Human rights, Harvard University, Honorary consultant, Cornwall Partnership foundation Trust; South London and Maudsley Foundation trust

    Sustainable Humanitarian Psychiatry: Mental Health in Primary Care
    Dr Peter Hughes, South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

    Live demonstration of Distant Volunteering: Mental Health Care for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
    Dr Anis Ahmed, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
     
  • Chair: Dr Catherine Hayhurst, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of Mental Health Subcommittee, Royal College of Emergency Medicine

    What’s the Evidence? An Overview of Research on Frequent Attendance
    Dr Alex Thomson, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Committee Member, RCPsych Liaison Psychiatry Faculty Executive Committee

    What’s it Like? The Experience of Attending Emergency Departments Frequently with Mental Health Needs
    Dr Emma McAllister, Lived Experience Advisor, UK and Patient Representative, RCPsych Liaison Psychiatry Faculty Executive Committee

    What Helps? Top Tips for Achieving a Service with Impact
    Ms Rhian Monteith, Advanced Paramedic and Specialist Advisor, NHS RightCare
     
  • 10.55 - 11.20 Coffee
  • Chair: Professor David Baldwin, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton 

    Lithium augmentation: tortoise or hare?
    Dr David Cousins, MRC Clinician Scientist, Newcastle University

    Review of the evidence regarding reduction of suicide during treatment with lithium
    Dr Ute Lewitzka, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden

    Timing of onset of relapse prevention with  lithium in bipolar disorder: evidence from randomised controlled trials
    Dr Matthew Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
     
  • Chair: Professor Allan Young, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

    Next Generation Rapid Acting Antidepressants
    Carlos A. Zarate, Jr., M.D, National Institute of Mental Health

    An Update on Pharmacological Augmentation Strategies for Major Depressive Disorder
    Professor Anthony Cleare, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

    Is transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) a treatment for depression?
    Professor Cynthia Fu, University of East London, Centre for Affective Disorders, IoPPN, King's College London, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
     
  • Chair: Dr Cate Bailey, Fellow in Medical Education, East London Foundation Trust, Barts and the London Medical School and Queen Mary University and Dr Juliette Brown, Consultant Psychiatrist, East London Foundation Trust

    Occupational and counselling psychologist and the founder of Career Planning for Doctors/Dentists

    Consultant psychiatrist in addictions working in Edinburgh and committee member for the RCPsych Psychiatrists’ Advice Service.

    Psychiatrist, therapist, trainer, coach and speaker who specialises in doctors’ wellbeing and founded “The Joyful Doctor”.
     
  • Chair: Dr Mark Paramlall, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist in Neurorehabilitation, North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre

    The Neuropsychiatry of Stroke
    Dr Michael Dilley, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist in Neurorehabilitation, Clinical Director & Programme Board Chair, South London Neurosciences ODN, Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Services, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Neuropsychiatry in a Cognitive Neurorehabitation Service
    Dr Stefania Bruno, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Medical Director Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre

    Neuropsychiatry in a Physical Neurorehabilitation Service
    Dr Himanshu Tyagi, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist in Neurorehabilitation and Medical Psychotherapist (CBT), Neurorehabilitation Unit (NRU), National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
     
  • 12.40 - 13.35 Lunch
  • 13.10 - 13.35 Rapid fire presentations
  • 13.40 - 14.10 KN15 Professor Helen Minnis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow
  • 14.10 - 14.40 KN16 Professor Sophie Frangou, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
  • Chair: Dr Angharad de Cates, Wellcome Trust Clinical Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford & Honorary Specialty Registrar, Oxford Health NHS FT

    Spreading the word
    Dr S. George Morris, Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Dr Gabrielle Churchhouse, SAS Doctor, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

    Overcoming obstacles
    Dr Jack Underwood, Wellcome Trust GW-CAT Clinical Research Fellow, Cardiff University and Dr Cinzia Giuntoli, CT3 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    Learning by example
    Dr Gareth Cuttle, Project Manager - Gatsby/Wellcome Neuroscience Project, Royal College of Psychiatrists
     
  • Chair: Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams, Newcastle University

    Assessment of sleep problems
    Dr Kirstie Anderson, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Treatment of insomnia
    Dr Sue Wilson, Imperial College London

    Treatment of other sleep problems
    Dr Hugh Selsick, The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
     
  • Chair: Prof. Wendy Burn, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Has Transforming Care transformed people’s lives?
    Dr Ken Courtenay, Chair, Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    A family’s experience of hospital care and community aspiration
    Mary Busk, mother and Family Carer Adviser NHS England

    Safe and sustainable transitions to community for vulnerable adults
    Dr Rajesh Mohan, Consultant Psychiatrist and Chair, Faculty Social and Rehabilitation Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists
     
  • Chair: Dr Billy Boland, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and Chair, Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Money and Mental Health - the evidence and changing policy environment
    Katie Alpin, Interim Chief Executive, The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

    Money and Mental Health - insights from the latest research
    Dame Professor Til Wykes, Professor and Vice Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

    Money and Mental Health - a personal perspective
    Lee Brookes, Expert by Experience
     
  • Chair: Prof Petrus J de Vries, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    A retrospective case review of long-acting second generation injectable antipsychotics for the treatment of adults with schizophrenia in Kenya
    Dr Catherine Syengo-Mutisya, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nairobi, Kenya

    Education and training in psychiatry in low-resource environments – the story of Sierra Leone
    Dr Abdul Jalloh, Specialist Psychiatrist and Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Why we have to think differently about intervention research for autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities in Africa
    Prof Petrus J de Vries, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
     
  • 16.00 - 16.20 Tea
  • Chair: Prof Hugo Critchley, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

    Autonomic biofeedback in management of neuropsychiatric conditions
    Dr Yoko Nagai, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

    Applications of real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging to alleviation of psychological symptoms
    Professor David Linden, Maastricht University

    Harnessing physiology in anxiety management
    Dr Cristina Ottaviani, Sapienza University of Rome
     
  • Chair: Professor Allan Young, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

    Professor Argyris Stringaris, Chief, Mood Brain & Development Unit (MBDU), National Institute of Mental Health, USA

    Neurobiology and treatments for mania
    Dr Sameer Jauhar, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London

    Dissecting bipolar disorder using clinical and mobile assessments
    Professor Kathleen Ries Merikangas, Ph.D., Senior Investigator & Chief, Genetic Epidemiology Research Unit
     

  • Chair: Dr Adrian James, President Elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Intellectual Disability and Autism-a challenge to Mental Health Legislation
    Dr Ken Courtenay, Chair, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
    The experience of 25 years of excluding people with Intellectual Disability from Mental Health legislation in New Zealand
    Dr Mhairi Duff, Auckland Regional Forensic Mental Health Services, New Zealand
    Scotland's independent review of learning disability and autism in the Mental Health Act: a human rights based approach
    Dr Simon Webster, former Secretary to the independent review of learning disability and autism in Scotland’s Mental Health Act, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

     
  • Chair: Dr Fergus Law, Consultant Psychiatrist in Substance Misuse and Clinical Lead Yeldall Manor

    The clinical use of Flumazenil in the Management of Benzodiazepine dependence and associated Anxiety Disorders
    Professor Gary K Hulse, Professor of Psychiatry, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Division of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia

    European experience in the use of Flumazenil infusions to treat 1400 patients with high dose benzodiazepine dependence
    Dr Fabio Lugoboni, Chief of Addiction Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona, Verona

    Clinical experience in the use of the Flumazenil infusions and implant to treat conditions thought to be associated with high endogenous benzodiazepines, including idiopathic hypersomnia, narcolepsy without cataplexy and the late luteal menstral phase
    Dr George O’Neil, Associate Professor University of Western Australia, and Medical Director Fresh Start Clinic, Perth, Western Australia