Program

27-28 February 2025

February 27th

Time

Plenary hall

Hall 2

Hall 3

8.00-9.00

Lobby

Registration & Welcome coffee/tea

9.00-9.45
Plenary hall

Opening of the conference

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Shehan Williams (Sri Lanka)
Charlene Sunkel (South Africa)
Thomas Schulze (Germany) 
Robert van Voren (Lithuania/The Netherlands)
9.45-10.15
Plenary hall

Guest Speaker

Sonali Deraniyagala (Sri Lanka)

The Service User Perspective

10.15-11.15
Plenary hall

Keynote Panel 1

Moderator Janet Anderson (UK)
Anto Agus Sugianto (Indonesia)
Remke van Staveren (The Netherlands)
11.15-11.45

 

Lobby

Coffee & tea break

11.45-13.15
Plenary hall

Symposium 1
Best Practices of Lived Experience Inclusion Across Sectors

Sandra Ferreira (South Africa)
Agus Hassan Hidayat (Indonesia)
Mujataba Noorul Hussein (India)
Parth Sharma (India)
Hall 2

Workshop 1

Erminia Colucci (Italy / UK / Indonesia)
Anto Agus Sugianto (Indonesia)

Hall 3

Symposium 2

Reflecting on the Legacy of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Shaping Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services in Sri Lanka

Moderator Ananda Galappatti (Sri Lanka)
Mahesan Ganesan (Sri Lanka)
Gameela Samarasinghe (Sri Lanka)
Kusala Wettasinghe (Sri Lanka)

13.15-14.30

Lobby

Lunch break

Mental Health Care in a Digital World

14.30-15.30
Plenary hall

Keynote Panel 2

Moderator Janet Anderson (UK)
Anil Thapliyal (New Zealand)
Farah Shiraz (Denmark)
15.30-16.00
Lobby

Coffee & tea break

16.00-17.30
Plenary hall

Symposium 3
The Samopomoch/Samopomich Program

Moderator Robert van Voren (Lithuania / The Netherlands)

Petr Winkler (Czech Republic)
Nino Makhashvili (Georgia)
Jana Javakhishvili (Georgia)
Julia Piievska (Ukraine)
 
Hall 2

Workshop 2

Virtual Reality in Mental Health Care Delivery

Farah Shiraz (Denmark)
PLE – TBA

Hall 3

Symposium 4

Aparna Joshi (India)
Swetha Ranganathan (India)
Mohan Isaac (Bangladesh)
Chetana Iyer (India)
17.30-17.35

Logistical break

17.35-18.35
Plenary hall

Keynote Panel 3

Moderator Janet Anderson (UK)

M Tasdik Hassan (Australia)
Sachin Pense (India)
18.35-18.40

Logistical break

18.40-19.40
Plenary hall

Symposium 4
The Mental Health E-learning program in The Netherlands

Moderator Robert van Voren (Lithuania/The Netherlands)

Arjan Pronk (The Netherlands)
Rob Keukens (The Netherlands)

Jayani Masthoff (The Netherlands)

Hall 2

Workshop 3

M Tasdik Hassan (Australia)
Hall 3

Symposium 5
Digital Interventions for Substance Use Disorders in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and in India

Moderator Shehan Williams (Sri Lanka)

Roshan Bhad (Sri Lanka)
Nusrat Sabrin Choudhary
Amila Isuru (India)
20.00-21.30
Lobby

Reception – 45 years FGIP

February 28th

Time

Plenary hall

Hall 2

Hall 3

8.00-9.00
Lobby

Registration & Welcome coffee/tea

9.00-10.00
Plenary hall

Keynote Panel 4

Moderator: Janet Anderson (UK)

Smriti Joshi (India)
Davor Mucic (Denmark)
10.00-10.05

Logistical break

Current Challenges in Metal Health

10.05-11.35
Plenary hall

Symposium 7
Symposium organized by the Srilankan College of Psychiatrists

Moderator Shehan Williams (Sri Lanka)

 
 
 
 
Hall 2

Symposium 8
New Approaches in Mental Health 

Rob Keukens (Netherlands)
Brigita Baks (Lithuania)
Karile Levickaite (Lithuania)
Martynas Marcinkevicius (Lithuania)
Valentina Hristakeva (Bulgaria)
Hall 3

10.05-12.45

Course on Telepsychiatry

Davor Mucic (Denmark)
Special CME course for
maximum 50 participants
10.00-10.05

Logistical break

11.35-12.00
Lobby

Coffee & tea break

12.00-13.00
Plenary hall

Keynote Panel 5
Moderator: Janet Anderson (UK)

Erminia Colucci (Italy / UK / Indonesia)
Shekhar Saxena (India)
13.00-13.30
Plenary hall

Special Guest Speaker

Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
13.30-13.35
Lobby

Coffee & tea break

13.35-14.35
Plenary hall

Film
Warak Keruon: Healing the Mothers of Lost Souls.

By Erminia Colucci (Italy / UK / Indonesia)

Followed by discussion

Hall 2

Symposium 9

Mahesan Ganesan (Sri Lanka)
Sambasivamooorthy Sivayokan (Sri Lanka)
Soumitra Pathare (India)
Hall 3

Symposium 10

Symposium by The Banyan

14.35-15.30

Lunch break

Mental Health Ethics and Human Rights

15.00-16.00
Plenary hall

Keynote Panel 6

Moderator: Marianne Schulze (Austria)
Harry Minas (Australia)
Dovile Juodkaite (Lithuania)
Hall 2

15.30-17.55

 

Leadership meeting for young professionals

Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
Meeting Early Career Psychiatrists
17.00-18.00
Lobby

Coffee & tea break

16.30-18.00
Plenary hall

Symposium 11

Jasmine Kalha
Shekhar Saxena (India / USA)
Anto Agus Sugianto (Indonesia)
Marianne Schulze (Austria)
Hall 2

Workshop 4
The implications of CRPD

George Szmukler (UK)
Dovile Juodkaite (Lithuania)
18.00-18.05

Logistical break

18.05-19.00
Plenary hall

Commemorating Sally Hulugalle

19.00-19.15
Plenary hall

Closing of the conference

19.15-20.30

Lobby

Farewell gathering

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