Série de conférences CACM/ARUM
En collaboration avec la Communauté d’apprentissage proceed de McGill (Rick Jones, coordinateur de conférences), l’ARUM (Dr. Ante L. Padjen, coordinateur de conférences) est heureuse d’offrir une série de cinq conférences virtuelles en anglais les vendredis à partir du 3 février 2023 à 10 heures en anglais. Selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, une personne sur cinq vit avec une forme de bother psychological. Pendant la pandémie, l’isolement et la solitude ont eu un affect majeur sur la santé mentale des personnes âgées.
Les conférences seront présentées par des consultants de renommée internationale sur des sujets sélectionnés en matière de santé mentale. Bien que de nature scientifique, les conférences conviennent à un public général. Au nom de CACM et de l’ARUM, nous sommes impatients de vous voir lors de ces événements spéciaux et informatifs.
Le coût est de 10 $ pour chaque conférence.
Après votre inscription, vous recevrez un e-mail avec un lien vers la réunion. Si vous êtes membre du CACM, vous pouvez utiliser ce lien pour vous inscrire à ces conférences.
The issue: Psychological well being prices to people and society are monumental, with one in 5 individuals dwelling with some type of a psychological dysfunction, the World Well being Group estimates. Within the final decade there was a considerable enhance in psychological well being situations and substance use problems. These situations now trigger one in 5 years of lives with incapacity. About 20 per cent of youngsters and adolescents endure from some psychological well being situation, with suicide because the second main reason for demise within the age group of 15-19 years outdated. The world continues to be affected by conflicts as 25 per cent of individuals in post-conflict settings have a psychological well being situation.
The burden of psychological well being points is substantial in all areas of life, together with college, work, household life and participation in the neighborhood. Melancholy and anxiousness price the worldwide financial system over $1 trillion, the World Well being Group estimated in 2017. Regardless of this price, whole authorities expenditures for psychological well being in all international locations accounts for lower than two per cent of whole spending.
In response to this rising disaster we’ve invited 5 internationally acknowledged consultants to current chosen subjects in psychological well being. No try was made to current an entire evaluation of the area, however the subject ought to present us with a greater understanding of the issues.
International Psychological Well being and the WHO’s View of It
Time: Friday, February 3, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Marc Laporta, MD, FRCP(C)
Psychological well being got here onto the world public well being radar fairly late. By means of slowly gained statistics, the worldwide affect of psychological sickness on individuals’s day by day lives, on households and on economies, is now clear to the World Well being Group. Many international locations are discovering methods to cut back their affect, however many components get in the best way. Nonetheless, progress is seen, and hope is justified. We’ll focus on totally different points of what psychological well being psychological problems are, and change concepts about methods to enhance the scenario. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Dr. Laporta is an Assistant Professor within the Division of Psychiatry at McGill College. He’s the Director of the Montreal World Well being Group (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Psychological Well being on the Douglas Psychological Well being College Institute. He is also the Director of the MUHC Early Psychosis Interventions Centre and is the coordinator for undergraduate training on the MUHC.
Can We Stop Cognitive Decline Related to Growing older?
Time: Friday, February 10, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Serge Gauthier, CM, MD, FRCP(C)
There may be rising data about danger and protecting components related to mind growing old. The proof is primarily derived from epidemiological research in giant populations. Potential randomized research have been initiated to find out how a lot of a delay in age-associated cognitive decline we will hope for utilizing a multidomain strategy. There may be already ample proof that vascular danger components must be managed beginning in mid-life: what is nice for the center is nice for the mind! Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Medical research at Université de Montréal, Neurology coaching at McGill College, Analysis Fellowship at Prof. Theodore L. Sourkes laboratory, Allen Memorial Institute, Montreal. Medical investigator and workers neurologist on the Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute (1976-1986), Director of the McGill Centre for Research in Growing older (1986-1996), Senior Scientist of the CIHR-Rx&D program (1997-2007). At present Professor within the Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Drugs, at McGill College, and Director of the Alzheimer Illness and Associated Issues Analysis Unit of the McGill Heart for Research in Growing older, Douglas Hospital. Contributions to analysis embrace design and implementation of randomized medical trials with the intention to set up the security and efficacy of cholinesterase inhibitors, muscarinic agonists, and brokers probably modifying development for Alzheimer’s illness and vascular dementia. Particular pursuits embrace consensus strategy to the administration of dementia in numerous phases, the ethics of analysis involving individuals with dementia, and first prevention methods in opposition to cognitive decline and dementia.
Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors
Time: Friday, February 17, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD
Suicide and suicidal behaviors are necessary public well being issues which have main affect on our society. On this lecture, Dr. Turecki will evaluation danger components for suicide and focus on prevention and intervention methods. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Tried and accomplished suicides are main issues in our society, making the understanding, prevention, and remedy of suicidal behaviors a high precedence. People who are suffering from main despair are particularly in danger. Dr. Turecki conducts research to higher perceive the traits of those people, specializing in early improvement, character traits and neurobiological components, with explicit consideration to how the setting interacts with the genome to extend danger. Dr. Turecki’s research deal with questions reminiscent of: “Why do some individuals who develop into depressed commit suicide whereas others who’ve the identical sickness don’t?” At a molecular stage, he’s concerned with investigating the function of epigenetic danger components, and significantly, how life expertise adjustments gene perform and will increase danger for suicidal conduct. Dr. Turecki is the director of the McGill Group for Suicide Research (MGSS), a middle comprising eight impartial investigators and finishing up multidisciplinary research on suicide, together with the examine of organic, behavioral, medical and psychosocial danger components for suicide. The MGSS manages the Quebec Suicide Mind Financial institution, which offers tissue for postmortem work on suicide and psychological diseases. Dr. Turecki can be the Head of the Depressive Issues Program, a superspecialized service for youngsters and adults who’re affected by main despair and/or extreme types of different depressive problems. It provides cutting-edge remedy for depressed sufferers and develops data on main despair, its danger components, and coverings, by conducting analysis initiatives which can be built-in into the medical observe. Dr. Turecki has a number of administrative obligations. He’s the vice-chair of analysis and educational affairs of the division of psychiatry, McGill College and is the director of the RQRS (Réseau québecois de recherché sur le suicide). He’s additionally the president of the Worldwide Academy of Suicide Analysis.
Complete Particular person Care, Relationship, and the Iceberg Metaphor
Time: Friday, February 24, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Tom Hutchinson, MD, FRCP(C)
We’ll define the curing and therapeutic parts of complete particular person care and the way these processes relate to the stances we mechanically undertake in regarding different individuals. We’ll have a look at the thought of congruence in relationships and discover the iceberg metaphor from the work of Virginia Satir as means of experiencing our personal congruence. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Dr. Tom Hutchinson graduated in Drugs from the Nationwide College of Eire with honours in 1971. He educated as an Internist and Nephrologist at McGill College from 1972-1976. From 1976 to 1978 he was a Robert Wooden Johnson Medical Scholar at Yale College with Dr. Alvan Feinstein. Dr. Feinstein led a revolution in medical analysis that included sufferers’ subjective expertise and reported signs as a supply of analysis knowledge. In 1978 Dr. Hutchinson returned to McGill the place he mixed medical observe of Nephrology and Inside Drugs with analysis on the medical determinants of survival in sufferers with kidney failure. Concern for the lived expertise of sufferers with kidney and different continual illnesses, in addition to for his or her caregivers, led Dr. Hutchinson to satisfy pioneering therapist Virginia Satir in 1986, to finish a 4 12 months coaching course in Household Remedy on the McGill Institute for Neighborhood Psychiatry in 1995 and to publish a guide on the tales of kidney sufferers in 1998.
In 2002, with the intention to enlarge his concentrate on the standard of sufferers’ lived expertise, Dr. Hutchinson modified his medical observe to Palliative Drugs and joined Dr. Balfour Mount in creating McGill Applications in Complete Particular person Care. The Applications are geared toward enlarging the Western Well being Care mandate from treatment and prolongation of life to an equal concern with sufferers’ high quality of life. The Applications search to check, perceive and promote the function of well being care in relieving struggling and selling therapeutic in acute and continual sickness as a complement to the illness focus of biomedicine. Since 2005, the Applications have taught therapeutic in medication to all medical college students all through all 4 years of the brand new Physicianship Curriculum at McGill. Dr. Hutchinson edited the primary educational guide on Complete Particular person Care that was revealed by Springer in 2011, “Complete Particular person Care: A New Paradigm for the twenty first Century”. In 2012, he was named to the School Honour Record for Educating Excellence at McGill in recognition of “excellent contributions to training within the School of Drugs”. Dr. Hutchinson chaired the First Worldwide Congress on Complete Particular person Care, sponsored by McGill’s School of Drugs, October 2013. In 2017, Dr Hutchinson chaired the 2nd Worldwide Congress on Complete Particular person Care and revealed a brand new single creator guide outlining the imaginative and prescient and implications of complete particular person care “Complete Particular person Care: Remodeling Healthcare” revealed by Springer.
The Way forward for Drugs and Psychiatry
Time: Friday, March 17, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, DPH
The presentation will describe present tendencies in society – reminiscent of commodification, urbanization, horizontalization – after which proceed to evaluation adjustments that will have to be launched into the observe of medication and the training of future well being employees to make them higher ready to reply to the brand new challenges. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Norman Sartorius was born in Germany in 1935 and grew up in Croatia. He specialised in neurology and psychiatry and moreover obtained a PhD in psychology. In 1967 he joined the World Well being Organisation, the place he performed quite a few worldwide research on schizophrenia, despair and healthcare supply. Between 1977 and 1993 he served as director of the WHO’s division of psychological well being. He was subsequently president of the World Psychiatric Affiliation and the European Psychiatric Affiliation. Dr Norman Sartorius taught on the universities of Zagreb, London and Geneva and has been known as “psychiatry’s dwelling legend” by British medical journal The Lancet. He lives together with his spouse in Geneva. Use this link to view his information on Wikipedia.
Krupchanka D et al (2019) Lancet Psychiatry 6:983. Norman Sartorius: psychiatry’s dwelling legend.
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