 The Society is dedicated to the understanding of mental health and illness in relation to childbearing, and our membership includes all professional disciplines with an interest in this field while also encouraging a strong consumer involvement. The Perth meeting will offer quality scientific content and lively interaction in a splendid setting at the famous port city of Fremantle.
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Who should attend
Nurses, psychologists, GP’s, psychiatrists, paediatricians, obstetricians, social workers, child care workers, policy developers, midwives, physiotherapists, and early childhood nurses.
Program format
The first day of the Conference will be devoted to optional half-day workshops. A panel, keynote and invited addresses, paper sessions, posters and mini-workshops will fill the remaining two days.
Invited speakers
Craig Allatt
In 2008 Craig’s partner developed puerperal psychosis after the birth of their son. She had no history of mental illness and he no experience of caring. The illness has had severe and ongoing consequences for the whole family. Craig is currently writing a booklet to help other fathers in a similar situation.
Philip Boyce
(2011 Marcé Lecturer)
Philip Boyce is Professor of Psychiatry at Westmead Hospital and Head of the Perinatal Psychiatry Clinical Research Unit at Westmead Hospital.
He went to medical school at Guy’s Hospital in London. He started training in psychiatry in London
before moving to Australia where he completed his psychiatry training. He trained in psychotherapy in Adelaide then returned to Sydney to work at the Mood Disorders Unit at Prince Henry. He completed his MD on the association between personality and non- melancholic depression. He was then appointed as the foundation chair in Psychiatry at the Nepean Hospital, where his work focused on perinatal psychiatry, before moving to his current position as Head of the Perinatal Psychiatry Service, Westmead Hospital.
He has had a long involvement with the Marcé Society, being a member of the international executive committee, one of the founders of the Australasian branch, and served as Marcé Society president from 2000 to 2002.
Anne Buist
Anne Buist is the Professor/ Director of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She runs two mother- baby units at Austin Health and Northpark and has over 20 years clinical and research experience in perinatal mental health. Following
the success of the beyondblue postnatal depression program which she directed, her interests have focused on attachment and interventions to improve child outcomes. She has recently had a six month sabbatical at Yale University.
Vivette Glover
Vivette Glover is Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology at Imperial College London. Her first degree was in biochemistry at Oxford University, and she did her PhD in neurochemistry at University College London. She then moved to Queen Charlotte’s
Maternity Hospital, London. More recently she has applied her expertise in biological psychiatry to the problems of mothers and babies. In 1997 she set up the Fetal and Neonatal Stress Research Group which studies fetal and neonatal stress responses, methods to reduce them, and long term effects. The effects of the emotional state of the mother, both on the developing fetus and longer term on the child are being studied. This is a new field for study, and one which links obstetrics, paediatrics, psychology and psychiatry. She has published over 400 papers.
Recent projects include studies showing that maternal prenatal stress or anxiety increases the probability for a range of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes for the child. These include ADHD, conduct disorder, and cognitive impairment. Her group are also studying the biological mechanisms that may underlie such fetal programming.
Sanjay Nandam
Dr L. Sanjay Nandam graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1999, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) in 2008. He was President of the RANZCP from 2003 to 2005.
He currently works as a clinical psychiatrist in public and private adult practice. In addition, Dr Nandam holds an appointment as a Conjoint Research Fellow in neuroscience at the prestigious Queensland Brain Institute. His research on neural stem cells and the neurochemistry of cognition has been presented
at international conferences, published in leading scientific journals and attracted both national and international grants.
He has a long-standing clinical and research interest in perinatal mental health, having conducted research into psychosocial aspects of postnatal depression, examining risk factors for the disorder, particularly the role of personality and obstetric risk factors. His current research focus is into the impact of psychotic disorders on women in pregnancy and postpartum and predictors of bipolar relapse following childbirth.
John P Newnham
John Newnham is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and is a sub-specialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine. He is Head of the UWA School of Women’s and Infants’ Health based at King Edward Memorial Hospital; Deputy Dean of
the UWA Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; and Executive Director of the Women and Infants Research Foundation.
Born in Western Australia, he graduated from The University of Western Australia in 1976 and pursued postgraduate medical training in Australia, South Africa, UK, and USA. Over the last 25 years he has published more than 200 original papers in international science journals.
He heads a research group which involves extensive collaborations with centres in USA, Canada, China and Australia. His research interests are based on the
prevention of pre-term birth and the developmental origins of health and adult disease.
Proposals are invited for the following:
- Papers(30minutesincluding10minutesforquestions/discussion)
- Papers(20minutesincluding5minutesforquestions/discussion)
- Symposia(90minutesincluding3or4relatedpapers)
- Posters
- Workshops(90or120minutesessions)
Please note:
Presentation of accepted abstracts is contingent on registration for the conference; persons whose abstracts are accepted will be required to register at least 6 weeks prior to the conference in order for their presentation to appear on the final program.
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