Keynote Speaker Professor Emeritus Mental Health & Cultural Diversity, Kings College London Past-President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011), World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017), British Medical Association (2018-2019), Mental Health Foundation (2014-2020) Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London Professor Dinesh Bhugra has authored/co-authored over 600 scientific papers, chapters, editorials and 49 books […]

Keynote Speaker Professor of Psychiatry, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Professor Dixon Chibanda is a professor of psychiatry and global mental health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the University of Zimbabwe.  He is  the founder of the Friendship Bench, a low intensity psychological intervention that […]

Keynote Speaker Associate Professor, Department of Surgery and Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Dr Karen Devon is an Endocrine surgeon at Women’s College Hospital and the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Joint Center for Bioethics in the Dalla Lana school […]

Keynote Speaker Dr. Todd Farchione is a Research Professor at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University (BU). He received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed a clinical internship at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. Before joining the faculty at BU, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at […]

Keynote Speaker (Joining Remotely) Psychotherapist and Best-selling Author of Grief Works, This Too Shall Pass, and Every Family Has a Story Julia Samuel MBE is a leading UK psychotherapist who worked for decades in the NHS. She is the Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK; an organisation she played a significant part for 25 years. […]