2021 Christchurch Mood Disorders Workshop

10 and 11 June 2021 | 8:30–17:00 |

The George Hotel, Christchurch

This two-day workshop follows the publication of the 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Mood Disorder Guidelines and is facilitated by four of the authors of those guidelines. It is designed for Consultant Psychiatrists or Senior Psychiatric Registrars.

We will extend knowledge and themes from the previous workshops (held in 2016, 2017 and 2019) while still providing a stand-alone educational package and significant updates based on the 2020 Guidelines published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatrists (ANZJP) in January 2021. We will examine all aspects of the clinical psychiatric management of mood disorders.

Professors Malhi and Murray will likely provide input remotely but we will facilitate a highly interactive format for their input. Should COVID-19 alert levels become unfavourable at the time of the workshop, we will revert to a fully online format.

Cost: $1,595

Registration

Workshop programme

For session outlines please see the programme tab above. The programme will updated as details become available

Convenors

Professor Richard J Porter

Richard Porter is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist in a service for adults with intellectual disability. He also works in an ECT service and sees many patients with treatment resistant mood disorder.

He trained in psychiatry mainly in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne where his clinical training focused on the treatment of resistant mood disorders. Recently his research has focused on neuropsychological impairment in depression and bipolar disorder and the relevance of this to treatment. He has published over 150 scientific papers in these areas. He was a Member of the RANZCP Psych Mood Disorders Guidelines Group and is Deputy Editor of ANZJP.

Professor Roger T Mulder

Professor Mulder’s academic interests include personality disorders, mood disorders, genetics, neurobiology, suicide, substance abuse, and early psychosis. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters.

He is Editor of the journal Personality and Mental Health, Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and the New Zealand Medical Journal and serves on several editorial boards. He is Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Co-chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Personality Disorders and a member of the ICD 11 Committee for Classification of Personality Disorders.

Professor Gin S Malhi

Professor Malhi holds a chair in psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is Head of the Department at Royal North Shore Hospital and is Director of the CADE Clinic and an Associate Director of the Kolling Institute.

He has been a Chief Investigator on National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grants for more than a decade and has published more than 400 papers. He was Editor-in-Chief of Acta Neuropsychiatrica (2006-2010) and is now Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. He is Deputy Editor of Bipolar Disorders and British Journal of Psychiatry Open.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and was awarded the RANZCP Senior Academic; Researcher Prize in 2013, the RANZCP College Citation in 2015 and the Mogens Schou award for Education and Teaching at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) in 2015.

Professor Greg Murray

Professor Greg Murray has an international reputation for psychology research, being ranked in the top 1% of researchers worldwide in bipolar disorders, circadian rhythms, personality and affect.

He has published more than 200 articles on the conceptualisation, aetiology and psychological treatment of mood disorders. After a first career in music, he took out his PhD from University of Melbourne in 2001, and has been a full Professor at Swinburne since 2011. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and a contributor to the forthcoming DSM-5-TR.