Welcome to the
EAPM Virtual Conference 2021
Dear colleagues
We are living very unusual times, socially and professionally. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought suffering, but also learning. We lost many things, but we also gained knowledge. We lost personal contact to friends and colleagues, but we improved in the technology for communication and networking. Learning, knowledge, and networking are the essence of any scientific meeting. Indeed, the pandemic could be seen as a big worldwide conference in which most of us improved our experience and knowledge, both personally and professionally. During this time, we faced new challenges and learnt new approaches, especially in the field of the Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation – Liaison Psychiatry.
Now, when there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel as a result of the vaccination programmes, most of us want to return to a new normality in our lives and our work. For this presidency and our executive council, coming back to normality means making sure that we have our EAPM annual meeting so we can all learn, gain knowledge and network in the same way as we did in the past.
Because there are still restrictions in most of the countries, we decided to organize a virtual meeting – and to postpone the meeting in Vienna until next year, 2022. That means, that for the first time, the annual meeting of the EAPM on June 3 and 4 will be hosted not by the local organization, but by the EAPM itself and organized by the members of the executive council.
The theme of the Conference will be “Psychsomatics during the pandemic”.
We have done our best to make this year’s EAPM annual meeting a leading conference, to attract physicians, mental health professionals, and researchers from all around the world. As with previous meetings presentations at the meeting will include eight high quality keynote lectures, 21 scientific symposia, and poster sessions. The program will cover a diverse range of subjects, including:
- Aspects of COVID-19 and ‘long COVID’
- Models of care in psychosomatic medicine
- Psychosomatic aspects of a number of clinical fields (e. g. Psycho-Oncology, Psycho-dermatology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Transplantation, Gynecology, Diabetology, Internal Medicine)
- Doctor-patient communication
- Psycho-Neuro-Immunology
- Stress and trauma
- Teaching in Psychosomatics and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Chronic pain
- Psychosomatics in primary care
- Psychosomatic aspects in child and adolescent medicine
- Psychotherapy with the medically ill
We are also delighted to announce a social event evening to promote networking.
This website of the EAPM meeting will provide timely, comprehensive information about the conference. Please, look out for the deadlines for the late poster submission, and for early registration.
We will be very happy to meet all of you again – at least virtually. We are sure that it will be the best online conference of the EAPM in history. Do not miss it – you will really enjoy it.
Finally, I would very sincerely thank all the members of the executive council for their hard work and support, and especially to those most involved in the organization of the meeting. Their great teamwork will make this conference a very big success.
Many, many thanks!
Jordi Blanch
President of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine
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Keynote Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ulrich Schnyder
Zurich
Judith Rosmalen
Groningen
Paul Garner
Liverpool
Michael J. Bostwick
Rochester
Jordi Blanch
Barcelona
Christiane Waller
Nuremberg
Winfried Rief
Marburg
Roger Kathol
Minneapolis
Robin Groen
Groningen
Anne van Gils
Groningen
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.
MISSION STATEMENT
BY THE CONGRESS TEAM
“To strengthen our international ties and promote knowledge exchange in psychosomatic research we have the honor to host this year’s EAPM conference virtually. For the very first time the EAPM annual scientific meeting goes virtual. The focus of the conference will be on mental health aspects of the COVID pandemic. We look forward to inspiring 2 days of international scientific exchange in a pandemic time.”
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