WPA REGIONAL CONGRESS, BUCHAREST, 2013

Facilitating Mental Health, Primary Care & Public Health Integration for Southeast Europe & Eurasia

Bucharest, Romania, 10-13 April, 2013, The Palace of the Parliament www.wpa2013bucharest.org

Prof. Pedro Ruiz, Congress President
Prof. Dinesh Bhugra & Prof. Eliot Sorel, Co-Chairmen, Scientific Committee
Prof. Tarek Okasha & Prof. Dan Prelipceanu, Co-Chairmen, Organizing Committee

Colleagues and Friends, Greetings!

The WPA 2013 Bucharest Congress invites your involvement and scientific participation via
www.wpa2013bucharest.org…!
You will be part of an unprecedented scientific event for Southeast Europe and Eurasia of an extraordinary scientific caliber as evidenced by the following, confirmed, keynote and professorial, plenary lectures:

– The Brain: Optimism, Wisdom and Resilience
Prof. Dilip Jeste, San Diego, USA
– Heartache and Heartbreak: The Curious Relationship Between Depression and
Cardiovascular Disorders
Prof Charles Nemeroff, Miami, USA
– The Metabolic Syndrome: Family Medicine, Psychiatry & Public Health Integration
Prof Hans-Jurgen Moeller, Munich, Germany
– Integrating Primary Care, Mental Health & Public Health in Europe: The Slovenia
Experience
Prof Igor Svab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
– Mental Health Care in General Medicine: Limits and Opportunities
Prof Norman Sartorius, Geneva, Switzerland
– The Mental Health of European Youth
Prof Danuta Wasserman, Stockholm, Sweden
– 21st Century Psychiatric Training in the United States
Prof Radu Saveanu, Miami, USA
– Mental Health for All – By All
Prof Vikram Patel, Goa, India & London,UK

The Congress will also focus on practical applications of primary care, mental health & public health integration – through identifying national and regional challenges, stimulating collaborations, creative integrative solutions, and sharing evidence of best practices & lessons learned to strengthen & modernize health systems.

It will be organized in plenary sessions, keynote lectures, professorial lectures, symposia, workshops, free paper presentations, posters and debates. There will also be a designated countries’ track, to stimulate and facilitate mental health, primary care and public health integration at local, national and regional levels.

The congress leading topics are the following:

– Populations’ health promotion, protection, illness prevention
– Training, education, mentoring, leadership, ethics
– Non-communicable diseases and comorbidity research
– Health systems’ modernization, strengthening & health policies
– Information, communication technology & new models of integrated care
– New Research: Integrated, Collaborative care, access, quality, cost, outcomes
– Advocacy models in integrated health care systems
– Eurasia & Southeast Europe: country reports

Have you got a new research or best practices project that you would like to share with thousands of delegates at the WPA 2013 Bucharest Congress? Would you like to learn about integrated health and what it means for you and your patients? If you do, please join us and bring your creative ideas & projects…we look forward to welcoming you all in beautiful Bucharest in bloom in April 2013…!