2^nd Annual Experts Meeting on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Management November 07-08, 2016 Barcelona, Spain

Barbara Juen is holding the position of Associate Professor at University of Innsbruck. Her research has been mainly focused on psychotraumatology and acute interventions after emergencies and disasters. She has been acting as Scientific Advisor for IFRC reference center, Australian Red Cross and European network for psychosocial support. She has taught subjects on Crisis Intervention and Management and consulted various organizations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Iceland, Israel, India, Indonesia, Bulgaria and Croatia. Her contribution for European Union include projects on “Post Tsunami”, Lay Counselling, OPSIC, PrepAge and PrepCap.

Psychotraumatology and Acute Interventions after Emergencies and Disasters

Dr. Kevin Thomas is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at UCT. He has a PhD in clinical psychology, with a specialty in neuropsychology. Dr. Thomas received training in pediatric neuropsychology under Professor Eileen Fennell at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). He has been involved in autism research at UCT since arriving in Cape Town in 2005.

Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Cognitive Aging Meta-analysis Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma

Dr. Fountoulakis received his medical degree (1989), performed his residency in psychiatry (1998), and earned his doctorate in psychiatry (1999) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received a 3-year fellowship in psychosomatic medicine and a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship for research from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece. Until 2003 he served as a medical officer in the Greek Armed forces retired with the rank of major. In 2005, Dr. Fountoulakis was a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychiatry, at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. In 2009 was appointed member and in 2012-14 chair of the Greek Ministry of Health Committee for the Administrative, Economic and Scientific Supervision of the Mental Health Units of the deinstitutionalization project. In 2013 was appointed chair of the Independent Committee of Experts for the Assessment of Mental Health Services of the Greek Ministry of Health. He chairs the ISNP and since 2006, he served as Secretary, since 2008 as co-chair, and currently as Chair of the Private Practice Section and currently is chair of the section of Research Methods in Psychiatry, of the World Psychiatric Association. He served as Chair of the CINP Credentials and Membership Committee (2010-12) and currently he chairs the Neuropsychological and Psychometric Instruments Section, of the Greek Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Fountoulakis’ areas of clinical and research interest are reflected in the topics that he teaches: general psychiatry, biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, mood disorders, schizophrenia and personality disorders.

Martín Correa-Urquiza has done PhD in anthropology of medicine and international health from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2006-2008), Master and diploma in anthropology by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2000-2004), Master in Public Opinion and advertising by the Latin American Faculty of social sciences (1996-1997) and Bachelor\\\'s degree in Sciences of communication science from the University of Buenos Aires (1989-1994). He has worked as a teacher at the University Rovira i Virigili, in the graduate school at the University of Porto Alegre (Brazil), at the University School of the Red Cross and in the master of Health Mental community of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Currently he serves as Professor at the Universiadd Rovira i Virigili and at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is founder and coordinator of the Mental health, communication and participation project: Radio Nikosia.

Media, active social participation, Mental Health, Madness, Prostitution, Identity, Anthropology and Complicity

Since 1982 Dr. Müller is getting training in psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology at the University Hospital of LMU Munich. Since 1990 he has been acting as senior psychiatrist and consultant, Psychiatric Hospital, LMU Munich. He got appointed as Head of the schizophrenia special ward since 1998; Head of the research-ward for Psychoneuroimmunology and endocrinology since 2011; Head of the working group Psychoneuroimmunology; Co-chair of the working group ‘History of Psychiatry’ and Head of the Tourette’s and OCD research group and outpatient services. He is responsible for the new-building and reconstruction of the Kraepelinian Hospital. Since 2000 he has been serving as Professor of Psychiatry.

Psychoneuroimmunology, schizophrenia, depression, movement disorders, Tourette research, global mental health

Peter Vlerick, PhD, received his MA and PhD in Psychology from Ghent University Belgium. He obtained his PhD for a thesis on antecedents and consequences of burnout in general hospital nurses. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in economic psychology at the Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology of Ghent University, Belgium. He is now involved in research on the relationship between employee well-being and customer satisfaction.

Relationship between employee well-being and customer satisfaction

Timothy Lau, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)., M.Sc. is a Distinguished Teacher with the Faculty of Medicine, Associate Professor, Director of the Residency Training Program, Clinical Lead, Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Unit at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. Dr. Lau is a member of the Royal College Examination Board, the interim Chair of the test committee for the Royal College, the Royal College Specialty Committee, and the Standing Committee on Education with the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He is the Chair of the directors of undergraduate psychiatric education for Canada and Chair of the Board of Directors for Maryvale Academy. He is the Founding President of the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians\' Societies and has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally on various topics including Dementia, the DSM 5, parenting and human happiness.

Ethics, Professionalism, Happiness and Leadership

Jana (Darejan) Javakhishvili is a clinical psychologist who has been working in trauma research, training and treatment since 1995. Since 2002 she has been heavily engaged in the field of conflict transformation as a facilitator for peace building processes in Georgia and the South Caucasus. Jana currently works for the Foundation Global Initiative on Psychiatry– Tbilisi, directs Institute of Addiction Studies (Addictology) at Ilia State University. She is a co-founder and teacher at the two innovative masters programs in the same university: Mental Health Masters Program (functional since 2012) and Addictology Masters Program (starting in 2015). In June 2013 she was elected as a president of the Georgian Society of Psychotrauma, since July of the same year she became a Secretary of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies board of directorshttps. She is a Contact Person for the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in the South Caucasus. She is co-author and co-editor of a number of books and scientific articles in Georgian, Russian and English published in Georgia, Armenia, England, Norway, Russia and the United States.

Trauma research, Conflict transformation, Mental Health and Addicology

A graduate of Melbourne (MB BS Hons, MD) and Oxford (DPhil) Universities, Professor Fink is Hon Professor in the Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow of the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria (MHRI) of which he was formerly Executive Director. His research is published in more than 360 scientific publications including the award winning Encyclopedia of Stress of which he is founding editor and the Handbook of Neuroendocrinology.

George Fink is an expert in neuroendocrinology, neuropharmacology and psychopharmacology with special interest in reproduction, stress and the pathogenesis of mental disorders.

Dr. Crisanto Diez-Quevedo is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, since 1991, and senior psychiatrist at Germans Trias I Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain. He obtained his Medical Degree in 1985 and his PhD in 1992, both at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. He has coauthored more than 40 scientific papers, as well as several book chapters. He has also participated in the organizing committee of the 23 editions (since 1993) of the International Symposium about Current Issues and Controversies in Psychiatry, which is held annually in Barcelona, Spain.

His clinical and research activities have focused for many years in the relationship between psychiatric and medical disorders, with special expertise but not exclusively in: - Management of mental disorders in chronic hepatitis C patients - Management of mental disorders in patients living with HIV / AIDS - Management of mental disorders in chronic heart failure patients - Assessment of candidates to renal transplantation and life donors Research Interest - Psychosomatic Psychiatry - Prognostic implications of depressive disorders in chronic medical disorders (chronic infectious diseases, chronic heart failure) - Biological mechanisms of the relationship of depressive and other medical disorders, especially inflammation.

He trained in the United States, and the lure of a successful medical practice seemed well-paved for him in the land of milk and honey. Yet, he decided to give up his green card and return to the Philippines to practice. In return, he became the Father of Child Psychiatry in the country and a highly respected authority in this seemingly uncharted and still misunderstood field of medicine. Dr. Cornelio G. Banaag, Jr. is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist based in Manila, Philippines. Dr. Banaag is also a Consultant to the Programme on Substance Abuse of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and Coordinator of the WHO Project on Street Children and Substance Abuse in the Philippines. He is currently a Consultant with the National Project on Street Children in the Philippines and Head of the Child Psychiatry Division of the Philippine Children's Medical Center. He is a member of the board of trustees of several non-government organizations such as Kaisahan Buhay Foundation, Inc., Community and Family Services International, TASH Foundation (based in India). He has written a book on Resiliency and has written numerous published articles. He was an Assistant Professor at the Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1985 - 1989. Dr. Banaag is Fellow and past President for three terms of the Philippine Psychiatric Association. He is an International Member of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, Philippine Chapter. Dr. Cornelio P. Banaag, an expert in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry. He is Professor and immediate past Chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. Currently the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at The Medical City General Hospital, Metro Manila, President of the ASEAN Federation for Psychiatry and Mental Health (AFPMH) and Honorary Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 9th AFPMH Congress and 13th Child Psychiatry Forum to be held in the Philippines in December 2003.

Biology and Genetics of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Konečni has three primary research interests within experimental/social psychology. The first of these is a social-psychological analysis of legal decision-making. Second is psycho-aesthetics, the psychology of art, music, and theatre. And finally, he does work on the social, cognitive, and psychophysiological aspects of human emotion and motivation.

Social-psychological analysis of legal decision-making, psycho-aesthetics, social, cognitive, and psychophysiological aspects of human emotion and motivation

Esther Martinez is an associate professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She obtained her Bachelor degree in Psychology from Universitat de Barcelona in 2005 and received her PhD in Psychiatry from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2012. She did a predoctoral stay at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (2010). Her research focuses on the study of fear and anxiety and emotional learning (from rats to humans). In particular, she is interested in how stressors can modulate fear conditioning via HPA axis dysregulation or amygdala dysfunction. As a therapist, she has been focused on anxiety disorders and stress. She has co-authored more than 15 scientific articles and has six publications in first quartile journals. She has also coorganised several scientific conferences.

The focus of her research is to study the anxiety. Not only when it is conceived as state or even a disorder, but also as a trait. For instance, some individuals seem to be more vulnerable to a threat than others, with a highly responsive HPA system, e.g. releasing more corticosterone “the stress hormone” to the bloodstream and showing a “freezer” behavioral profile. In the animal laboratory of Dr. Alberto Fernández Teruel there is a great example of this phenomenon: the Roman Low Avoidance rat, which was psychogenetically selected for its high anxiety levels. To what extent does anxiety affect other processes like cognition and learning and other body functions (immune system)? For her doctoral thesis, there were found some associations between levels of stress, behavioral anxiety and susceptibility to neuroinflammation, showing the intricate relationship among all the variables. After her early-researcher stage, at the prospect of performing translational studies, she enrolled the human laboratory of Dr. Rafael Torrubia, aiming to study the psychological processes affected by stress and their neurobiological bases, mainly in children and young adults with risk factors.

Dr. Tommaso Farma was Head Psychiatrist in Inpatient Day Hospital Psychiatric Department and Outpatient Psychiatric Department at General Hospital Vimercate (Milano) Italy. Year 1986 onwards, he has served as a family doctor, family systemic therapist, MD psychiatrist and acupuncture practice. He holds a certificate on Adult Attachment Interview from University of California. He was vice president at EMDR Italy and SISST board member. Currently he is ESTSS board member, Chief of ESTSS Certification Committee and Co-chair of Treatment task force and Professor in Masters of psycho - traumatology .

Trauma focused psychotherapies, Attachment and Neuroscience discoveries.

Dr. Diana Kljenak is an Assistant Professor and a Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Lead for the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry. She is a staff psychiatrist in the Community Mental Health Program at the University Health Network in Toronto and a consulting psychiatrist for the Central Toronto and Regent Park Community Health Centers. Her primary teaching and clinical interests include both collaborative care and psychotherapy. She is a Psychotherapy Coordinator at the UHN Centre for Mental Health as well as the CBT Psychotherapy Core Curriculum Block Coordinator and CBT seminar co-lead. She is a collaborative care supervisor and CBT supervisor at the UHN Centre for Mental Health. Dr. Kljenak is the President of the Ontario Psychiatric Association and a Co-chair of the Ontario Coalition of Psychiatrists. She is active in the Canadian Psychiatric Association as a member of its Membership Affairs Committee. Dr. Kljenak was formerly a co-chair of the Collaborative Mental Health Working Group at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Family and Community Medicine. She serves on the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Faculty Development, Continuing Professional & Practice Development and Psychotherapy Committee. She is an accreditation reviewer for the Department of Psychiatry through University of Toronto Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development. Her continuous medical education activities include organizing a very successful Bi-Annual UHN Department of Psychiatry Community Education Day, now in its 5th year as well as co-chairing Continuing Professional & Practice Development Conference Planning Committee. Dr.Kljenak is a sought-after speaker and has presented at provincial, national and international conferences. Dr. Kljenak has also been invited as a visiting professor to University of Tampere and Southern Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Centre, Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Kljenak received the Best Poster Award, third place at the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s 61st Annual Conference.

Dr. Kljenak’s interests include continuous medical education, interprofessional education, public education, collaborative care and psychotherapy. Her special interest is in the development of a higher level of course evaluation that would reflect how CME enhances competency and performance.