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2016 SMHR Annual Conference 7-9 December

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25.01.2022 Invited Speaker: Professor Sally Merry, Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Register for SMHR 2016 now for the early bird rate: http://www.smhr2016.com.au/registration/ Professor Merry is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. She holds positions as the Cure Kids Duke Family Chair in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, the Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University ...of Auckland and Director of the Werry Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Auckland. Professor Merry’s main area of research interest is in the development and implementation of effective therapies in child and adolescent mental health. She has developed an effective computerised intervention for teenage depression, SPARX, which has won international awards and isnow available as a national e-therapy service in New Zealand. Professor Merry has been involved in the development and implementation of other technology-based interventions, and in testing interventions for infants. She has conducted a number of Cochrane Collaboration reviews and has been involved in the design and implementation of national surveys of the health and wellbeing of New Zealand adolescents. She is running a trial to test modular delivery of evidence-based therapies in child and adolescent mental health services in funded to develop and test a programme of behavioural intervention technologies for young people as part of the National Science Challenge, a Better Start E Tipu E Rea.

18.01.2022 Invited Speaker: Professor Mark Dadds, Sydney Child Behaviour Research Clinic, Faculty of Science, the University of Sydney. Register for SMHR 2016 now for the early bird rate: http://www.smhr2016.com.au/registration/ I am a clinical psychologist interested in the development of health versus psychopathology, especially common problems like aggression, antisocial behaviour, anxiety and depression. Originally trained in behavioural approaches to parent and family methods of m...aximising positive child development, I direct the Sydney Child Behaviour Research Clinic which operates as a clinical service for parents of children with developmental, behavioural and emotional problems, as well a training and research centre. A major thrust of this work is understanding interparental processes whereby parental systems work together to maximise child outcomes and their own health and happiness. I also have a growing interest in how the parenting environment operates and gets trapped in, causal loops with fundamental biological characteristics of the child related to the major neurodevelopmental systems of dopamine, cortisol, serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin.To this extent, I have become increasingly interested in research and clinical work that tries to map our most human interpersonal processes such as love, empathy, cooperation and coercion onto the genetics and neural function of these major systems and builds them into new more efficacious treatments for young children.

17.01.2022 International Speaker: Professor Karsten Kristiansen, Genome Research and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Copenhagen. Register for SMHR 2016 now for the early bird rate: http://www.smhr2016.com.au/registration/ Karsten Kristiansen is Professor of Molecular Biology and heads the Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. He is also Professor and Scientific Leader of the Metagenomics Section at BGI-Shenzhen. Af...ter graduation from the University of Copenhagen, he held postdoctoral positions at the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik in Berlin and at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, in Paris. He was full professor and head of Department of Molecular Biology, later Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 1992-2005, before he was recruited as professor and Head of the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen in 2008. He served as Head of Department until March 2015, when he stepped down to be able to spend more time with BGI-Shenzhen. Central themes of the research of Professor Kristiansen concern the interaction between the host genome, the host immune system and the gut microbiota in regulating energy metabolism, and how interaction between different nutrients modulates energy homeostasis and adipocyte differentiation and function. To achieve these goals his research groups use a combination of molecular biology approaches, animal studies, metagenomics and genomics. He has published more than 270 articles in refereed journals, many of which in high ranking journals such as Science, Nature, and Cell. See more

11.01.2022 Invited Speaker: Professor Roger Mulder, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand. Register for SMHR 2016 now for the early bird rate: http://www.smhr2016.com.au/registration/ Roger Mulder’s academic interests include mood disorders, personality disorders, genetics, neurobiology, suicide, and early psychosis. He is interested in the history and philosophy of psychiatry, particularly the classification of abnormal behaviour. He is also involved in research on the psychiatric aspects of medical illnesses. He has published over 150 articles and book chapters. He is editor of the journal Personality and Mental Health, associate editor of the New Zealand Medical Journal and serves on several editorial boards.

11.01.2022 International Speaker: Professor Mary Cannon, Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Register for SMHR 2016 now for the early bird rate: http://www.smhr2016.com.au/registration/ Mary Cannon is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Youth Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin. Her research area of interest is the study of early life risk factors for psychosis and other mental disorders. Her current research programme focuses on psychotic symptoms in childhood and adolescence which index risk for later mental illness and could provide a significant opportunity for prevention. She won a Doctor Award (Psychiatry) in 2013 from the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and was listed on the Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher list in 2014.