Série de conférences CACM/ARUM
En collaboration avec la Communauté d'apprentissage continue 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 trouble mental. Pendant la pandémie, l'isolement et la solitude ont eu un impact majeur sur la santé mentale des personnes âgées.
Les conférences seront présentées par des experts 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 problem: Mental health costs to individuals and society are enormous, with one in five people living with some form of a mental disorder, the World Health Organization estimates. In the last decade there has been a substantial increase in mental health conditions and substance use disorders. These conditions now cause one in five years of lives with disability. About 20 per cent of children and adolescents suffer from some mental health condition, with suicide as the second leading cause of death in the age group of 15-19 years old. The world continues to be affected by conflicts as 25 per cent of people in post-conflict settings have a mental health condition.
The burden of mental health issues is substantial in all areas of life, including school, work, family life and participation in the community. Depression and anxiety cost the global economy over $1 trillion, the World Health Organization estimated in 2017. Despite this cost, total government expenditures for mental health in all countries accounts for less than two per cent of total spending.
In response to this growing crisis we have invited five internationally recognized experts to present selected topics in mental health. No attempt was made to present a complete review of the domain, but the topic should provide us with a better understanding of the problems.
Global Mental Health and the WHO's View of It
Time: Friday, February 3, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Marc Laporta, MD, FRCP(C)
Mental health came onto the world public health radar quite late. Through slowly gained statistics, the global impact of mental illness on people's daily lives, on families and on economies, is now clear to the World Health Organization. Many countries are finding ways to reduce their impact, but many factors get in the way. However, progress is visible, and hope is justified. We will discuss different aspects of what mental health mental disorders are, and exchange ideas about ways to improve the situation. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Dr. Laporta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. He is the Director of the Montreal World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Mental Health at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. He also is the Director of the MUHC Early Psychosis Interventions Centre and is the coordinator for undergraduate education at the MUHC.
Can We Prevent Cognitive Decline Associated with Aging?
Time: Friday, February 10, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Serge Gauthier, CM, MD, FRCP(C)
There is increasing knowledge about risk and protective factors associated with brain aging. The evidence is primarily derived from epidemiological studies in large populations. Prospective randomized studies have been initiated to determine how much of a delay in age-associated cognitive decline we can hope for using a multidomain approach. There is already sufficient evidence that vascular risk factors should be managed starting in mid-life: what is good for the heart is good for the brain! Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Medical studies at Université de Montréal, Neurology training at McGill University, Research Fellowship at Prof. Theodore L. Sourkes laboratory, Allen Memorial Institute, Montreal. Clinical investigator and staff neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute (1976-1986), Director of the McGill Centre for Studies in Aging (1986-1996), Senior Scientist of the CIHR-Rx&D program (1997-2007). Currently Professor in the Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Medicine, at McGill University, and Director of the Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Research Unit of the McGill Center for Studies in Aging, Douglas Hospital. Contributions to research include design and implementation of randomized clinical trials in order to establish the safety and efficacy of cholinesterase inhibitors, muscarinic agonists, and agents possibly modifying progression for Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Special interests include consensus approach to the management of dementia in different stages, the ethics of research involving persons with dementia, and primary prevention strategies against 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 important public health problems that have major impact on our society. In this lecture, Dr. Turecki will review risk factors for suicide and discuss prevention and intervention strategies. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Attempted and completed suicides are major problems in our society, making the understanding, prevention, and treatment of suicidal behaviors a top priority. Individuals who suffer from major depression are especially at risk. Dr. Turecki conducts studies to better understand the characteristics of these individuals, focusing on early development, personality traits and neurobiological factors, with particular attention to how the environment interacts with the genome to increase risk. Dr. Turecki’s studies address questions such as: "Why do some people who become depressed commit suicide while others who have the same illness do not?" At a molecular level, he is involved with investigating the role of epigenetic risk factors, and particularly, how life experience changes gene function and increases risk for suicidal behavior. Dr. Turecki is the director of the McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS), a center comprising eight independent investigators and carrying out multidisciplinary studies on suicide, including the study of biological, behavioral, clinical and psychosocial risk factors for suicide. The MGSS manages the Quebec Suicide Brain Bank, which provides tissue for postmortem work on suicide and mental illnesses. Dr. Turecki is also the Head of the Depressive Disorders Program, a superspecialized service for children and adults who are suffering from major depression and/or severe forms of other depressive disorders. It offers cutting-edge treatment for depressed patients and develops knowledge on major depression, its risk factors, and treatments, by conducting research projects that are integrated into the clinical practice. Dr. Turecki has several administrative responsibilities. He is the vice-chair of research and academic affairs of the department of psychiatry, McGill University and is the director of the RQRS (Réseau québecois de recherché sur le suicide). He is also the president of the International Academy of Suicide Research.
Whole Person Care, Relationship, and the Iceberg Metaphor
Time: Friday, February 24, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Tom Hutchinson, MD, FRCP(C)
We will outline the curing and healing components of whole person care and how these processes relate to the stances we automatically adopt in relating to other people. We will look at the idea of congruence in relationships and explore the iceberg metaphor from the work of Virginia Satir as way of experiencing our own congruence. Registration and Payment Link
Biography:
Dr. Tom Hutchinson graduated in Medicine from the National University of Ireland with honours in 1971. He trained as an Internist and Nephrologist at McGill University from 1972-1976. From 1976 to 1978 he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University with Dr. Alvan Feinstein. Dr. Feinstein led a revolution in medical research that included patients’ subjective experience and reported symptoms as a source of research data. In 1978 Dr. Hutchinson returned to McGill where he combined clinical practice of Nephrology and Internal Medicine with research on the clinical determinants of survival in patients with kidney failure. Concern for the lived experience of patients with kidney and other chronic diseases, as well as for their caregivers, led Dr. Hutchinson to meet pioneering therapist Virginia Satir in 1986, to complete a 4 year training course in Family Therapy at the McGill Institute for Community Psychiatry in 1995 and to publish a book on the stories of kidney patients in 1998.
In 2002, in order to enlarge his focus on the quality of patients’ lived experience, Dr. Hutchinson changed his clinical practice to Palliative Medicine and joined Dr. Balfour Mount in developing McGill Programs in Whole Person Care. The Programs are aimed at enlarging the Western Health Care mandate from cure and prolongation of life to an equal concern with patients’ quality of life. The Programs seek to study, understand and promote the role of health care in relieving suffering and promoting healing in acute and chronic illness as a complement to the disease focus of biomedicine. Since 2005, the Programs have taught healing in medicine to all medical students throughout all 4 years of the new Physicianship Curriculum at McGill. Dr. Hutchinson edited the first academic book on Whole Person Care that was published by Springer in 2011, “Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century”. In 2012, he was named to the Faculty Honour List for Teaching Excellence at McGill in recognition of “outstanding contributions to education in the Faculty of Medicine”. Dr. Hutchinson chaired the First International Congress on Whole Person Care, sponsored by McGill's Faculty of Medicine, October 2013. In 2017, Dr Hutchinson chaired the 2nd International Congress on Whole Person Care and published a new single author book outlining the vision and implications of whole person care “Whole Person Care: Transforming Healthcare” published by Springer.
The Future of Medicine and Psychiatry
Time: Friday, March 17, 10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, DPH
The presentation will describe current trends in society - such as commodification, urbanization, horizontalization - and then proceed to review changes that would need to be introduced into the practice of medicine and the education of future health workers to make them better able to respond to the 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 additionally obtained a PhD in psychology. In 1967 he joined the World Health Organisation, where he conducted numerous international studies on schizophrenia, depression and healthcare delivery. Between 1977 and 1993 he served as director of the WHO's division of mental health. He was subsequently president of the World Psychiatric Association and the European Psychiatric Association. Dr Norman Sartorius taught at the universities of Zagreb, London and Geneva and has been called "psychiatry's living legend" by British medical journal The Lancet. He lives with his wife in Geneva. Use this link to view his information on Wikipedia.
Krupchanka D et al (2019) Lancet Psychiatry 6:983. Norman Sartorius: psychiatry's living legend.
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