APA's Office of International Activities (OIA) and its reporting
components, the Council on Global Psychiatry, Committee on Psychiatric
Dimensions of Disasters, and Corresponding Committee on Misuse and Abuse of
Psychiatry, are pleased to announce that numerous scientific presentations
dealing with international psychiatric issues are slated for the 2009 annual
meeting in San Francisco. Among them:
Issue Workshop: Incest—A Cultural Perspective
APA Council on Global Psychiatry and the APA Council on Children,
Adolescents, and Their Families
Chair/Director: Rodrigo A. Muñoz, M.D.
Room 113, Exhibit Level North, Moscone Center
Issue Workshop: Need to Reformulate "Risk" and Its"
Assessment" in Clinical Practice
World Psychiatric Association
Room 320, Esplanade Level, Moscone Center
Issue Workshop: Man- and Non-Man-Made Disasters in Asia: The Role of
Resilience
Chair/Director: Pedro Ruiz, M.D.
Room 224, Mezzanine Level East, Moscone Center
Symposium: Monitoring Equity in Mental Health From a Cross-National
Perspective
Chair/Director: Donna Stewart, M.D.
Room 309, Esplanade Level, Moscone Center
Component Workshop: National Security, the Hippocratic Oath, and the War
on Terror
APA Council on Global Psychiatry Director/Chair: Shirin Ali,
M.D.
Room 306, Esplanade Level, Moscone Center
Lecture: The Movement for Global Mental Health: Why You Should
Join
Virkram Patel, M.Sc. M.R.C.Psych., Ph.D.
Room 130/131, Exhibit Hall Level, Moscone Center
Symposium: The Effects of City Life on Mental Health Around the
World
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Director/Chair: Nigel Bark, M.D.
Room 122, Exhibit Level North, Moscone Center
Component Workshop: Immigrant Mental Health: Challenges and
Considerations
APA/SAMHSA and APA/AstraZeneca Minority Fellows
Chair/Director: Shirin Ali, M.D.
Room 111, Exhibit Level North, Moscone Center
Scientific and Clinical Reports: Survey of World Psychiatric Association
Member Societies on Child Sexual Abuse and Physician-Patient Sexual
Relations
Director/Chair: Donna Stewart, M.D.
Room 122, Exhibit Level North, Moscone Center
Lecture: Developments in Mental Health Services in India
Lecturer: Matthew Varghese, M.D.
Room 130/131, Exhibit Hall Level, Moscone Center
Symposium: "Me-Too" Medications, Really?
APA Council on Global Psychiatry and the APA Council on Children,
Adolescents, and Their Families
Room 307, Esplanade Level, Moscone Center
Issue Workshop: Psychiatry in the Americas: Update from the World
Psychiatric Association
Director/Chair: Michelle Riba, M.D.
Room 301, Esplanade Level, Moscone Center
Symposium: Bad Versus Mad: The Failure of the Penal System in
California
APA Council on Global Psychiatry and the APA Council on Children,
Adolescents, and Their Families
Room 124, Exhibit Level North, Moscone Center
Other international activities hosted by the Office of International
Activities and the Council on Global Psychiatry include international
discussion groups or forums on issues in psychiatry pertinent to these
regions:
In addition to the many international activities being held at the annual
meeting, the APA Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters will host
the following sessions dealing with trauma and disaster psychiatry:
More information about the Office of International Activities and
its components can be accessed at the APA's Web site at<www.psych.org/MainMenu/Research/InternationalPrograms.aspx>
or obtained by e-mailing the office at
internationaloffice@psych.org.