Mental Health SIG Symposium
Educational event provided by Mental Health SIG
Including Foundation Level Seminar on Friday 11th August
A great range of speakers on wide variety of topics including gender affirming healthcare, endocrine considerations in psychiatry, lithium and the kidneys, addiction medicine, overdoses, and older person’s psychiatry.
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New Zealand Hospital Pharmacy Association Mental Health Special Interest Group Symposium
12th & 13th August
Ōtepoti Matahuhua – Diverse Dunedin
We have confirmed a great range of speakers on wide variety of topics including gender affirming healthcare, endocrine considerations in psychiatry, lithium and the kidneys, addiction medicine, overdoses, and older person’s psychiatry.
Symposium will run 8am-5pm Saturday and 8:15am-1.30pm Sunday.
PROGRAMME 12 August
0800 Registration Tea and coffee on arrival
0830 Formal opening (Lisa Kremer)
0835 Welcome (Marleen Van Oeveren)
0840 Dr Patrick Manning (Consultant Endocrinologist) Mental health Pharmacy meets endocrinology
0930 Associate Professor Ailsa McGregor (Associate Professor & Deputy Director, Brain Health Research Centre)
Huntington’s disease - more than just a movement disorder
1020 Morning Tea
1050 Dr Jo Hikaka (Pharmacist & Senior Research Fellow) Medicines, Mental Health & Māori
1140 Dr Rochelle Bradley (Psychiatric Registrar) Sexual side effects of antidepressants
1230 Lunch
1330 Dr John Schollum (Consultant Nephrologist) Nephrology and lithium
1410 Dr Lawrence Leung (Senior Psychiatric Registrar) & Dr Megan Bryan (Medical Director & Psychiatrist, Ashburn Clinic)
1450 Afternoon tea
1515 Dr Samantha Chow (Consultant Psychiatrist) Psychology of gender affirming healthcare
1600 Helga Stauffenberg (Intern Pharmacist) Lived experience with Gender affirming healthcare
1630 NZHPA MHSIG Annual General meeting
1700 Close
1800 Pre-dinner drinks, dinner at 7pm
PROGRAMME 13 August
0815 Registration Tea and coffee on arrival
0840 Associate Professor Yoram Barak (Consultant Psychogeriatrician) Suicide in the psychogeriatric setting
0920 Professor Bruce Russell (Deputy Dean, School of Pharmacy) Addictions – An update
1000 Ruby Cole (Mental Health Pharmacist) Mental health pharmacists supporting physical health monitoring
1030 Morning Tea
1100 Associate Professor Adam Pomerleau (Director of National Poisons Centre) Risk assessment and pearls from a clinical toxicologist
1140 Marleen van Oeveren (Mental Health Pharmacist) & Dr. Valarie Tan (Clinical Psychologist) Psychology of Prescribing
1230 Linda McLay (Mental Health Pharmacist) IM Clozapine
1300 Close and thanks
1315 Lunch and depart
