Annual Educational Workshop in Psychiatry 19 June 2025

Join us on 19 June 2025 for the Annual Educational Symposium in Psychiatry.

Registration is necessary and will open soon.

The program offers a rich mix of educational sessions, expert insights, and networking opportunities:

  •     Interactive Morning Workshops tailored for younger students and clinicians, respectively
  •     Poster Exhibition with a prize of 1,000 EUR for the best poster
  •     Excellence Symposium featuring world-class experts in the field of Translational Psychiatry
  •     Regional Annual Meeting for Psykiatriens Specialeråd (Specialist Council in Psychiatry).
  •     Extensive Networking Opportunities

Programme

08.00 REGISTRATION OPENS

08.00 - 09.00: POSTER MOUNT

08.30 – 09.45:  WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS

  • Workshop 1: Overview of preclinical models in psychiatry
    Staff From Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Aarhus University
  • Workshop 2: Use of Imaging in psychiatry.
    Staff from AUH, MR & PET Centre

09.45 - 10.00:  COFFEE BREAK

10.00 - 11.15:  WORKSHOP FOR CLINICIANS

  • Workshop 3: Progress in Immunopsychiatry.
    Woo Ri Chae (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)

11.15 – 12.00:  POSTERWALK

12.00 – 13.00: PARALLEL SESSION

  • LUNCH & POSTERWALK  (Sandwiches and drinks)
  • LUNCHEON CLINICAL WORKSHOP (Sandwiches and drinks)
    Pathophysiologies of Sleep Disorders in Mental Health Disorders: How to handle?
    Lone Baandrup (University of Copenhagen) og Nina Bak (Aarhus University)

13.00 – 17.30: TRANSLATIONAL EXCELLENCE SYMPOSIUM

  • 13.00 – 13.10: Welcome
  • 13.10 – 13.50: Evangelos Vassos (King’s College London)
    Combining Genetic and Environmental Risk in Psychosis Prediction Models
  • 13.50 – 14.30: Rudolf Uher (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)
    Personalising treatment for major depressive disorder
  • 14.30 – 15.10: Gin Malhi (University of Sydney & University of Oxford)
    Rethinking Psychiatry: Why, How and When

15.10 – 15.30: COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

  • 15.30 – 16.10: Frederik Hieronymus (University of Gothenburg)
    The response pattern to SSRIs as assessed by the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale: a patient-level meta-analysis.
  • 16.10 – 16.50: Isobel Heyman (University College London)
    Bringing physical and mental health care together in a children's hospital – new approaches
  • 16.50 - 17.30: Nadia Micali (University of Copenhagen)
    New perspectives in understanding Eating Disorders.
  • 17.30 – : Concluding remarks

17.30 – 18.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS

  • POSTER WALK - Networking with refreshments
  • PARALLEL: MEETING IN ‘PSYKIATRIENS SPECIALERÅD’.

18.45 - 19.00 TRANSPORT

19.00 – : DINNER

Auditorium G206-142 & Conference rooms
Aarhus University Hospital
Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99
8200 Aarhus N

Registration will open soon

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Meet the invited speakers/workshop hosts

Organizing Committee

  • Gregers Wegener, Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Aarhus University & Department of Affective Disorders , Aarhus University Hospital - Psychiatry
  • Ole Köhler-Forsberg, Department of Psychosis , Aarhus University Hospital - Psychiatry
  • Rasmus S. Hjuler, Department of Forensic Psychiatry , Aarhus University Hospital – Psychiatry; Chairperson for Psykiatriens Specialeråd.