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Conference Programme

Keynote speakers, programme and guidance

The conference will take place from 9.30am - 5.00pm. You can download the speaker biographies and abstracts below.

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ScheduleSpeaker and Topic
09.30

Welcome

Alan Thompson, Dean of UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
09.40

Mind and Body interactions

  • Professor Sarah Garfinkel, UCL, Mind and Body in mental health
  • Professor Carmine Pariante, King's College London, What has the immune system got to do with depression?
10.40Short break
11.10

Mini-symposium

  • Professor Martin Knapp, London School of Economics, How to fund a National (mental) Health Service 
  • Dr Lade Smith CBE, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,
  • Professor Tim Kendall, National Clinical Director for Mental Health, NHS England
  • Isabel Hardman, The Spectator
12.25

Panel discussion

13.00Lunch break & poster presentations
14.30

Suicide prevention and assisted suicide

  • Prof Sir Louis Appleby, University of Manchester, Suicide Prevention: is it possible? 
  • Dr Scott Kim, National Institutes of Health, Assisted Suicide and mental disorder  
15.30

Panel discussion

Discussion chaired by Profe Sarah Edwards
15.45

Tea and coffee break

16.15PhD and conference poster prize giving
16.30

Q&A

16.40Professor Sophie Scott, Laughter is the best medicine
17.00Finish
17.45Drinks reception