January 25th, 2023
Wednesday
17:00
GMT
Free
Registration is required
Certification
To all attendants via email
“January 25th, 2023 at 17:00 GMT”
New York
12:00
London
17:00
Athens
19:00
San Diego
09:00
Paris, Rome
18:00
Beijing
01:00 (26/01)
The Webinar continues the series of MSc Webinars – the online-ZOOM events for the clinicians and educators in the field of psychiatry.
The MSc Webinar is organized for mental health professionals by the Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences and Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the auspices of:
WPA 2020-23 Action Plan group on Evidence Based Psychopharmacology
WPA section on Evidence Based Psychiatry
The aim of these educational sessions is to provide a global and comprehensive update of the newest developments in neurobiology, psychopharmacology, treatment guidelines and personcentered care of mental disorders.
The strategic approach of the invited speakers is to avoid content-free eloquence and authority and to face hard questions on the base of research findings.
SPEAKER
Prof. Norman Sartorius
M.D., M.A., D.P.M., Ph.D., FRC. Psych.
"The Mental health Workforce for the future"
Professor Sartorius obtained his M.D. in Zagreb (Croatia). He specialized in neurology
and psychiatry and subsequently obtained a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in
psychology (Ph.D.). He carried out clinical work and research and taught at graduate
and postgraduate levels at the University of Zagreb, at the Institute of Psychiatry in
London, at the University of Geneva and elsewhere.
He joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1967 and soon assumed charge of
the programme of epidemiology and in social psychiatry. He was the principal
investigator of several major international studies on schizophrenia, on depression and
on health service delivery. He was responsible for WHO’s work on the classification of
mental and neurological disorders. The growth of the programme under his leadership
lead to the elevation of the programme from a Unit to the Division of Mental Health of
which he was the first director. He held this position until 1993 when he was elected
President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He served as the President of
WPA until August 1999. Subsequently he became President of the Association of
European Psychiatrists (EAP) a position held until December 2001.
He is the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health
Programmes and a member of the Geneva Prize Foundation having previously been its
President. Professor Sartorius holds professorial appointments at the Universities of
London, Prague and Zagreb and at several other universities in the USA and China.
Professor Sartorius has published more than 400 articles in scientific journals, authored
or co-authored books and edited a number of others.
Professor Sartorius is a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and
Sciences and of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine and a honorary member of the
Medical Academies of Croatia, Mexico and Peru. He holds honorary doctorates of the
Universities of Bath, Copenhagen, Prague and Umea and is a honorary fellow of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, of the American
College of Psychiatry and of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
He is an Honorary Member of numerous professional associations and advisory boards,
both national and international. He is the co-editor of three scientific journals and a
member of editorial and advisory boards of many scientific journals. He speaks
Croatian, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.
Organization
MSC ‘CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH’
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI GREECE
In collaboration with
WPA 2020-23 Action Plan group on Evidence Based Psychopharmacology
WPA section on Evidence Based Psychiatry
