Plenary Speakers

Professor Patrick Corrigan
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology
Principal investigator of the National Consortium for Stigma and Empowerment (NCSE)
Presentation Title: Animal Models for Psychosis

Professor Darryl Eyles
Neurobiology Laboratory Director Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, (QCMHR), Queensland Brain Institute, (QBI)

Professor Vera Morgan
Head of the Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit & Deputy Director (Epidemiology), Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia
Operational Epidemiologist, North Metropolitan Health Service Mental Health
Adjunct Professor, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
Presentation Title: What are the challenges for service providers in promoting recovery for people with psychotic illness?

Professor Iris Sommer
Faculty of Medical Sciences, Academic Centre of Psychiatry, The Netherlands
Presentation Title: To continue or not to continue Aims and Methods of the Dutch HAMLETT study

Professor Cynthia Shannon Weickert
NSW Chair of Schizophrenia Research
Professor at the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Principal Research Fellow
Presentation Title: Putative perivascular macrophages are increased in people with schizophrenia with increased cytokine expression

Professor Stephen Wood
Associate Director, Research and head of the Clinical Translational Neuroscience Research Program
Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
Presentation Title: The curious relationship between autism and psychosis
Local Plenary Speakers

Dan Siskind
MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRANZCP
Presentation Title: Managing the Cardio-metabolic co-mobidities of psychotic disorder