2009 RANZCP New Zealand Conference

The 2009 RANZCP New Zealand Conference was held in Rotorua from 14-16 October 2009. The theme of the Conference was "Learning from the Past; Lessons for the Future". As part of its commitment to continuing medical education and improved services to members, the College is pleased to provide access to video recordings of the following keynote presentations via webstreaming:

KEYNOTE SESSIONS

Usefulness and limits of considering cultural variation in the practice of psychiatry
Professor Norman Sartorius
President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, a Geneva based NGO, and expert in schizophrenia, depression and health service delivery
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Revising the meta-structure we use in our classification: towards DSM-5 and ICD11
Professor Sir David Goldberg
Professor Emeritus and Fellow of King's College, London and specialist in the teaching of psychological skills to doctors and improving the quality of services to those with severe mental illnesses
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ADHD across the lifespan
Professor Luis Rohde
Professor of Child Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil and Director of the Program for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil
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The pathology of schizophrenia and the concept of neural networks
Professor Wolfgang Gaebel
Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf and a researcher on clinical, pharmacological and neurophysiological aspects of schizophrenia, experimental psychopathology, treatment guidelines and quality management, and stigma and discrimination
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The emergence of sub-threshold psychiatry
Professor Ahmed Okasha
Founder Professor and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Training and Research in Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Cairo and President of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association
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Huntington's disease
Professor Richard Faull
Professor of Anatomy at the University of Auckland and leading researcher on brain diseases such as Huntington's, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy
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Symposium on Commercial Sponsorship of Psychiatrist Education
Panel Session

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