Judith Rosmalen

Keynote

on

Long-COVID in the general population: definitions, prevalence and risk factors

Judith Rosmalen

Judith Rosmalen is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of Groningen. She studied medical biology (University of Utrecht 1995) and psychology (University of Leiden 1998, cum laude), and obtained her PhD on interactions between immune and endocrine system (Erasmus University Rotterdam 2000). Her multidisciplinary research focusses on the etiology and treatment of persistent physical symptoms. She is the chair of the Dutch national network on medically unexplained symptoms. Details on her publications and activities can be found at www.rug.nl/staff/j.g.m.rosmalen

Jordi Blanch

President of EAPM and Conference President 2021

Welcome Session

Opening Ceremony

Jordi Blanch

Jordi Blanch, MD PhD, is Consultant in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Associate Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Barcelona, and Chief Operating Officer of the Program for Mental Health and Addictions of Catalonia.

He has been Chief of the Inpatient Psychiatry Clinic in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona; Medical Coordinator in Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu; Chair for Educational Affairs of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and president of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry

For more than twenty years he has conducted clinical, research and educational work in HIV Psychiatry. His areas of expertise in HIV Mental Health include depression, psychopharmacology, drug interactions, and psychotherapy in HIV.

He has also been done clinical work in psychiatric and psychological disorders in severely ill medical patients (oncology, bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, and others), as well as in personality disorders and anxiety disorders.

Ulrich Schnyder

Keynote

on

Culture-sensitive psycho-traumatology and refugee mental health

Ulrich Schnyder

Emeritus professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Past President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), and the International Federation for Psychotherapy (IFP). Recipient of the ESTSS Wolter de Loos Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychotraumatology in Europe, and the ISTSS Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Paul Garner

Keynote

on

Recovering from post COVID-19 syndrome: personal experience

Paul Garner

Paul Garner – is a medical epidemiologist and Professor of Evidence Synthesis. He worked in Papua New Guinea, helped set up Cochrane and co-ordinates the production of reviews in infectious diseases. In 2020 his personal account of COVID-19 was one of the first published narratives of a protracted illness and widely distributed.

Michael J. Bostwick

Keynote

on

“Not for Myself? The Ethics of Autonomy vs. Collaboration in End-of-Life Decision-Making”

Michael J. Bostwick

Professor of Psychiatry at Mayo Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychology, at Rochester, MN. Recipient of the Hackett Award 2020 and the Alan Stoudemire Award for Innovation and Excellence in Psychosomatic Medicine Education; research topics: suicidal behavior, transgender, medical education

Christiane Waller

Keynote

on

The effects of the COVID pandemic on health care professionals 

Christiane Waller

Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at paraceleus medical private university Klinikum Nürnberg, specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, internist and cardiologist. Research interests are cardiovascular stress and trauma research, effects of the corona pandemic on psychosomatic health. 

Winfried Rief

Alison Creed Award lecture

Keynote

on

Placebo and nocebo research: The power of expectations                                     

Winfried Rief

Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Head of the Clinic for Psychological Interventions. License for psychotherapy and supervision. Dr. Rief worked for many years in hospital settings (e.g., Roseneck Hospital for Psychosomatic Medicine, Prien a. Ch.). He is specialized in placebo- and nocebo effects, classification of chronic pain conditions, perception and coping with somatic symptoms, optimization of clinical studies and interventions. He was guest professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston (2004/2005), University of Auckland Medical School (2002), and University of California San Diego (2009/2010). Additionally, he was nominated for the expert committee of WHO/APA for the revision of the classification of mental disorders according to DSM-5, and he is co-chairing the WHO working group on chronic pain diagnoses in ICD-11. This ICD-11 classification proposal for chronic pain was adopted by the World Health Assembly 2019. Dr. Rief is elected coordinator for grant applications to the German Research Foundation and he is spokesperson of the DFG-research unit on placebo and nocebo mechanisms. He received the Distinguished Researchers Award in Behavioral Medicine of ISBM in 2014.

Roger Kathol

Frits Huyse Award lecture

Keynote

on

A Forty-Year Reflection: Fostering Integrated Medical and Psychiatric Care          

Roger Kathol

M.D., C.P.E., is Board certified in internal medicine and psychiatry and specializes in assistance to and the care of complex patients with concurrent general medical and psychiatric disorders.  He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles and 5 books.  For the past 21 years, he has provided integrated care consultations to hospital systems, insurance companies, and government agencies through his company, Cartesian Solutions, LLC.

Robin N. Groen

Young Investigator Award lecture

Keynote

on

Temporal relationships among worrying, anxiety, and somatic symptoms – a clinical and methodological perspective

Robin N. Groen

Robin Groen finished a Research Master in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Maastricht; Anne van Gils is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. They jointly performed research on somatic symptom disorder during their PhD-studies at the University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation.

Anne van Gils

Young Investigator Award lecture

Keynote

on

Temporal relationships among worrying, anxiety, and somatic symptoms – a clinical and methodological perspective

Anne van Gils

MD PhD. Anne studied Medicine at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and graduated cum laude. She performed her PhD research on medically unexplained symptoms and e-health next to a clinical traineeship in Psychiatry. Anne is currently a registered psychotherapist and recently started her own company, providing online self-help, coaching and therapy for patients with medically unexplained symptoms.