Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events

A Worldwide Calendar and Locator Resource
Maintained by Myron L Pulier

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Objectives:

• Enhance awareness of early psychosis and the process of recovery
• Provide a network for international communication and collaboration between stakeholders, including mental health professionals, consumers and their families, and policy makers
• Contribute to the development of knowledge about early psychosis and its treatment
• Facilitate research including multicentre trials, cross-cultural research and long term studies
• Facilitate the development and promotion of best practice in identifying early psychosis and providing optimal treatment
• Improve services to young people with emerging psychosis and their families, through encouragement of appropriate mental health policies
• Improve access to information on the identification and treatment of early psychosis
• Arrange conferences and professional meetings on an international level that focus on the early phase of psychotic disorders
• Provide links to existing educational resources and training options

1. 6-th International Conference on Early Psychosis October 20-22, 2008: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Jean Addington, PhD, Director, PRIME Clinic; Director, Psychosocial Intervention Service, First Episode Psychosis Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Professor of Psychiatry,University of Toronto, Canada; President, International Early Psychosis Association [IEPA]
• Anthony A Grace, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; member, Board of Directors, Schizophrenia International Research Society
• René Kahn, Head, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience; Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Universitair Medisch Centrum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• John M Kane, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine [AECOM], New York, New York
• Jeffrey A Lieberman, MD, Director, Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research and Treatment; Lieber Professor and Lawrence E Kolb Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Psychiatrist-In-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
• Thomas H McGlashan, MD, Director, Yale Psychiatric Institute; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
• Jean-Paul Selten, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Lex Wunderink, Head, Department of Education and Research; Director of Psychiatric Training, Friesland Mental Health Services, Leeuwarden; Rob Giel Onderzoekcentrum [RGOc], Groningen University Medical Center Centre, The Netherlands
• Alison Yung, MD, MBBS, MPM, FRANZCP, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne; Principal Research Fellow, ORYGEN Research Centre [ORC]

The IeHA was formed in 2000 to promote health technologies and develop global, regional and national solutions to healthcare issues everywhere. The IeHA brings together health professionals, healthcare administrators, scientists, researchers, business executives, IT professionals, consultants, educators and legislators. To achieve this, the IeHA will collaborate with related professional associations, patient-related organisations, governmental and non-governmental organisations, academic centres and other entities involved in healthcare.

• Promote the use of epidemiology and its application to the solution of health problems.
• Encourage the development and improvement of epidemiological methods.
• Promote the communication of epidemiological methods and findings amongst epidemiologists throughout the world as well as amongst all others concerned with health.
• Co-operate with both national and international organizations concerned with health protection, in order to apply epidemiological methods while searching solutions to problems.
• Improve the dissemination of epidemiological findings nationally and internationally.
• Improve the recruitment, education and training of epidemiologists.

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