Conference programme

• Parallel sessions

Final programme may be subject to change.

 

Wednesday 15 June

 

Thursday 16 June

 

Friday 17 June

 

Saturday 18 June

 

Plenary lectures

 

Masterclasses  and Workshops

• Clinical Skills Track 1: Masterclass – Psychopharmacology
• Clinical Skills Track 2a: Workshop – Skating on thin ice – managing ethical dilemmas during acute psychiatric crisis (SWEDISH)
• Clinical Skills Track 2b: Workshop – Assessing cognitive dysfunction in young and old. When Mini Mental State is not enough…
• Clinical Skills Track 3:   Workshop – Suicide prevention in primary and community care (SWEDISH)
• Clinical Skills Track 4a: Masterclass – Functional disorders
• Clinical Skills Track 4b: Workshop – Finger on the pulse – ECG monitoring in mental health problems
• Clinical Skills Track 5: APM-EAPM Workshop – Psychodynamic bedside teaching.
• Research Skills Skills Track 1: CARUS Masterclass – Gender aspects in health and disease
• Research skills track 2: EAPM masterclass – How to succeed in clinical research
• Research Skills Track 3: CARUS Masterclass – Psychotherapy at the end of life
• Research Skill track 4: How to get your paper published – the editor’s point of view

 

Clinical Skills Track 1: Masterclass Psychopharmacology – Mastering the balance between effects and risks.

Thursday 16 June 13.30 – 17.00

Masterclass in collaboration with the Maudsley Hospital London

• Professor David Taylor
• Professor Carmine Pariante
• Ursula Werneke, Anders Berntsson (Facilitators)

Treating mental health problems can be challenging at the best of times. But what happens if matters become even more complicated and there are additional risks like physical illness or pregnancy? Monotherapies may not always work. But how confident do we feel to combine psychotropic drugs effectively and safely? In this Masterclass Psychiatry, world-leading experts from the Maudsley Hospital in London will share their clinical experience and discuss your cases.

By attending you will:

• Learn to use pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles to assess drug interactions.
• Manage depression in pregnancy more confidently.
• Get a state of the art update on the management of bipolar depression.
• Understand psychotropic medications in the presence of physical health problems.

Course book: The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry 2015, David Taylor, Carol Paton & Shitij Kapur

After this masterclass you will feel more confident prescribing antidepressants and antipsychotics in complex situations.

Previous Masterclasses Psychiatry

Masterclass Psychiatry 2015

Masterclass Psychiatry 2014

 

Clinical Skills Track 2a:  Workshop – Skating on thin ice – managing ethical dilemmas during acute psychiatric crisis.

Friday 17 June 09.00 – 10.30 (Swedish)

In collaboration with Psykiatri i Norr

• Hans Ericson
• Per-Axel Karlsson
• Anders Berntsson, Ursula Werneke (Facilitators)

Psychiatrists and A&E doctors on call must regularly carry out risk assessments and consider tough ethical dilemmas. Often there is only little time to think, since in acute settings, doctors have to make decisions on the spot. To take decisions quickly and comfortably, on-call doctors do not only need good clinical judgement, they also need to be firmly grounded in law.

In this workshop, two senior clinicians with outstanding expertise in psychiatric emergency work will share their experience with you and discuss difficult cases. As the course draws on Swedish law, the course will be given in Swedish. However, clinicians from other Nordic countries may find this course relevant to their practice.

By attending you will:

• Get better understanding of risk assessment in the A&E (akutmottagningen) environment.
• Improve your technique for assessing and managing non suicidal self injury.
• Update your knowledge on the legal principles guiding the provision of physical health care for people with severe mental disorders.
• Understand under which circumstances physical health care can be given against a person’s will.

After this workshop you will feel more assured about taking tough decisions in emergency situations and carry out clinical risk assessments.

 

Clinical Skills Track 2b: Workshop – Assessing cognitive dysfunction in young and old. When Mini Mental State is not enough…

Friday 17 June 09.00 – 10.30, lunch case presentation 12.30 – 13.15

In collaboration with Maastricht University, Netherlands and Aarhus University, Denmark

• Marjolein de Vugt
• Mille Moeller Thastum
• Anna Beck, Mikael Sandlund (Facilitators)

In everyday practice, assessing cognitive function is a clinically challenging and difficult task. Assessing cognitive function, we often resort to the mini mental state, but this test can miss important aspects of cognitive impairment. In young people, cognitive defects are often discrete, especially if it lies in  the realm of executive dysfunction.

As cognitive dysfunction is easily missed, cognitive symptoms may often be misinterpreted as “psychological” and “maladaptive”. Such patients may then inappropriately be referred to psychotherapy. This, in such circumstances, may be ineffective or even do more harm then good.

Brought to you by neuropsychologists from Maastricht and Aarhus University, this practical workshop, based on case examples, will teach a systematic approach to screening cognitive function and dysfunction in elderly patients, and to make you more capable of recognizing cognitive dysfunction in young patients.

By attending you will:

• Learn to detect and understand cognitive dysfunction in the context of presenting problems and behaviours.
• Understand the difference between cortical and subcortical dementias and ways to diagnose these.
• Improve your skills in recognizing cognitive and executive dysfunction in young people
• Gain insight into forms of psychological support suitable for patients with cognitive dysfunction.

You will leave the workshop with improved confidence in your skills diagnosing cognitive dysfunction and initiating appropriate therapeutic interventions.

 

Clinical Skills Track 3:  Lunchtime workshop – Suicide prevention in primary and community care.

Friday 17 June from 12.30 – 13.30 (in Swedish)

In collaboration with the Norrbotten County Council

• Erica Sigvalius
• Ursula Werneke (Facilitator)

Suicide prevention lies at the heart of mental health. But mental health services only see the tip of the iceberg. That is why clinicians working in primary care and community workers need to be equally well equipped to identify people who might be at risk of suicide.

In this workshop the lead of patient safety at the mental health services of Sunderby Hospital will take you through a systematic approach towards assessing suicide risk in accordance with the Swedish guidelines for suicide prevention and discuss cases.

As the course draws on guidance from the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), the course will be given in Swedish. However, clinicians from other Nordic countries may find this course relevant to their practice.

By attending you will:

• Review the principles of suicide risk assessment according to current National Guidelines
• Improve on your ability to rate suicide stages
• Learn lessons from failures and near misses
• Understand the legal requirements guiding risk assessment and documentation

After the workshop, you will feel more confident assessing and documenting suicide risk.

 

Clinical Track 4a:  Masterclass – Functional disorders.

Friday 17 June 13.30 – 17.00

In collaboration with Aarhus University, Denmark

• Professor Per Fink
• Lene Hardt Sanchez Toscano

The topic is Functional disorders – Assessing medically unexplained symptoms in primary care with Professor Per Fink and Dr Lene Hardt Sanchez Toscano

In primary care, many patients present with symptoms for which no physical association or cause can be found. The absence of a tangible physical cause often leads to an impression that symptoms are not real or do not be taken to be seriously. Yet, for the patient affected, they constitute a great source of suffering and disability.

Even after several rounds of physical investigations, an organic base may not be found. At that point, communication between patients and clinicians can easily become contentious. Patients may feel not taken seriously and rejected and clinicians may become frustrated and angry.

In this masterclass, international experts from Aarhus University will familiarize you with a systematic approach towards the diagnosis and management of functional disorders.

By attending you will:

• Gain a deeper understanding of the concepts and classifications of functional disorders and medically unexplained symptoms.
• Acquire skills to help patients better to cope with their symptoms.
• Learn how to leave the opiates in the cupboard.

Course book: Functional Disorders and Medically Unexplained Symtoms. Assessment and Treatment. Per Fink & Marianne Rosendal eds.

After this masterclass, you will feel more confident meeting and treating patients with functional disorders in your daily practice.

 

Clinical Skills Track 4b:  Finger on the pulse – ECG monitoring in mental health problems.

Friday 17 June 13.30 – 15.00

In collaboration with Umeå university

• Michael Ott (Facilitator)
• Ellinor Bergdahl

Cardiac problems can commonly occur in mental health settings. Dealing with cardiac effects of psychotropic medicines is one such example, but there are many other. Yet, many clinicians only have limited experience assessing cardiac function.

In this workshop, we will look at the role of ECG as a main diagnostic tool and interpret ECGs. Two experienced physicians from Umeå University Hospital, one a consultant cardiologist, the other a consultant nephrologist, will take you through classical ECG cases as applied to mental health.

By attending you will:

• Improve your understanding of screening of cardiac function for central stimulants.
• Learn to diagnose and manage drug associated QT prolongation.
• Get a better grasp of clozapine associated ECG changes.
• Gain insight into what to look for in ECG before ECT.
• Improve your management of anorexia nervosa induced hypokalemia.

You will leave the workshop with improved clinical skills regarding the use and interpretation of ECG.

 

Clinical Skills Track 5: APM-EAPM Workshop – Psychodynamic bedside teaching.

Friday 17 June 15.30 – 17.00

In collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, University of Mainz, Germany, and the Paracelsus University of Nuremberg, Germany

• Kemuel Philbrick, MD
• Manfred Beutel, MD, Professor
• Barbara Stein, PhD
• Wolfgang Söllner, MD, Professor

The EAPM and the APM (Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine) both support training of consultation-liaison psychiatrists and practitioners of psychosomatic medicine in the conduct of psychodynamically-informed assessments. A psychodynamic approach explores how patients conceptualize their illness, understand its meaning and develop coping strategies.

In this workshop, which builds on the discussion of two real-life cases, experienced psychotherapists from both sides of the Atlantic will equip you with the necessary skills to listen and think through the whole meaning of the patient’s illness and suffering and formulating therapeutic approaches that will better meet the needs of your patients.

 

By attending you will:

• Appreciate how a psychodynamic understanding of powerful emotional responses in both the patient and his or her relatives and the ward’s medical team and consultant.
• Become able to examine transference and countertransference phenomena and underlying unconscious conflicts.
• Learn how to support other members of your team by encouraging them to integrate dynamic formulation into their consultation work.

After this workshop you will be more confident to handle emotional responses emerging during encounters with patients, irrespective of whether theses emotional responses originate in your patients, your team members or yourself.

 

Research Track 1: CARUS Masterclass – Gender aspects in health and disease

Thursday 16 June from 13.30 – 17.00

In collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

• Professor Kristina Orth-Gomér
• Professor Sarah Wamala (TBC)
• May Blom, PhD
• Professor Hans-Christian Deter

Women and men share many similarities in health and disease, but there are also important differences. E.g. women need more often to see a doctor and they have more symptoms of ill health. Women also have more pain, they suffer more from sleep disturbances and take more medications than men do.

In contrast women have been thought to be “immune” against heart diseases, and acute myocardial infarction has been thought to be a disease, typical of the male manager. This and other myths about sex and gender will be clarified in the masterclass on gender, in which we summarize the research of the last decades in epidemiology, biological mechanisms of established risk factors and psychosocial prevention methods.

In this masterclass, international experts from the Karolinska Institute will familiarize you with gender aspects of health and disease, using their recent volume “Psychosocial stress and Cardiovascular Disease. Concepts, Findings, Future development  (Orth-Gomér,K Schneiderman,N, Vaccarino,V, Deter H-C, Springer Business and Science as a basis for lectures, discussions and exercises.

By attending you will:

• Improve your research methodology regarding the study of gender aspects in health and disease, specifically
• Understand and identify the significance of biological sex and biological differences between men and women
• Appreciate and recognize the social and psychological gender differences between men and women; differences that are due to the surrounding society structures
• Know how to distinguish between sex and gender
• Appreciate the panorama of health and illness in men and women and about the distribution of specific chronic diagnoses among men and women
• Learn about sex and gender specific preventative principles and therapeutic models.

After this masterclass, you will be able to integrate gender aspects in your research and clinical understanding and management of patients – in illness and in health.

 

ResearchTrack 2: EAPM Masterclass – How to succeed in clinical research

THURSDA 16 June from 13.30 – 15.00

In collaboration with Oxford University

• Michael Sharpe

Getting research done is important to both the researcher and to out field. But it can be hard. Planning studies, getting them funded, completed and the results published are rewarding but sometimes daunting tasks.

In this interactive workshop you will get first hand tips from an academic with many years of experience of completing and publishing clinical research in psychosomatic medicine.

By attending you will:

• Learn the importance of formulating a research question
• Understand different study designs
• Get trips on writing grant proposals
• Learn about how to approach a mentor
• Understand the main strategies for successful study completion
• Gain tips on writing up your results for publication

You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of the research process and how to succeed in it.

 

Research Track 3: CARUS Masterclass – Research on Psychological and Palliative Interventions with Life-Threatening and Advanced Disease: From Empathy to Evidence

Friday 17 June 09.00 – 10.30

In collaboration with the University of Toronto, Canada

• Professor Gary Rodin

Clinical trials with vulnerable populations raise unique and complex challenges related to informed consent, recruitment and retention, the validity outcome measures, the integrity and consistency of interventions and to the demonstration of benefit in the context of a deteriorating medical condition.

Psychological and palliative interventions must be feasible to deliver in such populations and tailored to the nature and stage of disease, to the life stage and social circumstances of the patients, and to the specific treatment setting.

The methodological challenges and solutions in such research will be reviewed in this workshop and illustrated by experience with mixed methods randomized controlled trials of psychosocial and palliative intentions conducted with acute life-threatening disease and with metastatic cancer. The evidence generated from such research has the potential to bridge the gap between empathy and evidence when scientific rigor ensured.

In this masterclass, Professor Gary Rodin, a world-leading expert from the University of Toronto will take us through the process to develop and study the impact of psychosocial and palliative interventions to relive distress and to improve the quality of life of individuals facing life threatening or advanced illnesses.

By attending you will:

• Understand challenges and solutions in the conduct of clinical trials in patients with life=threatening and advanced disease.
• Gain greater insight into qualitative and quantitative methods to assess psychosocial and palliative interventions.
• Obtain practical tips how to get started in research to assess clinical interventions.

You will leave this masterclass with improved skills to research psychological and palliative interventions with vulnerable populations.

 

Research Track 4: How to get your paper published – the editor’s point of view

FRIDAY 17 June from 15.30 – 17.00

In collaboration with Maastricht University, Netherlands, and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research

• Albert Leentjens

Getting your research published is essential in any scientific career. But often it is easier said than done. To get your first academic paper into print may seem like an insurmountable task.

In this highly interactive workshop you will get first hand tips from the editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, the official journal of the EAPM, on how to increase your chances to get your paper published.

By attending you will:

• Learn how to choose an appropriate journal for your research
• Understand what it takes to submit a high quality paper
• Appreciate the importance of writing an excellent abstract
• Learn how the editor handles your paper
• Learn how to deal with rejection constructively

You will leave the workshop with improved skills and strategies for writing up and submitting your research for publication.

 

Organising and scientific committee

Head

• Ursula Werneke, Luleå

Members

• John Sandström, Luleå (organising)
• Anna Beck, Luleå (organising)
• Jordi Blanch, Barcelona
• Silvia Ferrari, Verona
• Albert Leentjens, Maastricht
• Carsten Leue, Maastricht
• Maria Nordin, Umeå
• Marta Novak, Toronto/Budapest
• Michael Ott, Umeå
• Wolfgang Söllner, Nuremberg

Potential conflicts of interest

• Jordi Blanch: Receipt of honoraria or consultation fees and participation in a company’s sponsored speakers’ bureau: Gilead, Ferrer; attendance to conferences supported by Pfizer/Janssen.
• Albert Leentjens: Honorarium as Editor-in-Chief J Psychosom Res (which is affiliated with the EAPM); travel support.
• Ursula Werneke: Exhibitors at educational events UW has organized: Masterclass Psychiatry Programme and EAPM 2016, Luleå, Sweden: Astra Zeneca, Janssen, Lilly, Lundbeck, Novartis, Servier, Otsuka, Shire in 2014, 2015 and/or 2016.
• All others: No conflict of interest to report.

Peer reviewers

• Rolf Adolfsson, Umeå
• Lucia Tomas-Aragones, Alcañiz
• Marie Bendix, Stockholm
• Margarita Beresnevaite, Kaunas
• Alexandre Berney, Lausanne
• Manfred Beutel, Mainz
• Jordi Blanch, Barcelona
• Antonio Bulbena, Barcelona
• Graça Cardoso, Lisbon
• Hans-Christian Deter, Berlin
• Dan Dumitrascu, Cluj-Napoca
• Silvia Ferrari, Verona
• Francisca Geiser, Bonn
• Elsepeth Guthrie, Manchester
• Monika Keller, Heidelberg
• Carsten Leue, Maastricht
• Alvert Leentjens, Maastricht
• Bernd Löwe, Hamburg
• Robert Maunder, Toronto
• Marta Novak, Toronto/Budapest
• Maria Nordin, Umeå
• Michael Ott, Umeå
• Carmine Pariante, London
• Joanna.Rymaszewska, Wroclaw
• Elinor Salander Renberg, Umeå
• Mikael Sandlund, Umeå
• Michael Sharpe, Oxford
• Barbara Stein, Nuremberg
• Wolfgang Söllner, Nuremberg
• Christina Van der Feltz-Cornelis, Tilburg
• Frank Vitinius, Cologne
• Danuta Wasserman, Stockholm
• Ursula Werneke, Luleå

Speakers plenary sessions, workshops and masterclasses

Plenary sessions

• Törbjörn van Elvsåshagen, Oslo
• Robert Maunder, Toronto
• Gun Heimer, Uppsala
• Carmine Pariante, London
• Gary Rodin, Toronto
• Colin Shapiro, Toronto
• Michael Sharpe, Oxford
• James Strain, New York
• Jim van Os, Maastricht
• Sir Simon Wessely, London
• Rikard Wicksell, Stockholm
• Gladys Witt-Strain, New York

Workshops and masterclasses

• Elinor Bergdahl, Umeå
• May Blom, Stockholm
• Hans-Christian Deter, Berlin
• Marjolein de Vugt
• Hans Ericson, Sundsvall
• Per Fink, Aarhus
• Lene Hardt Sanchez Toscano, Aarhus
• Gun Heimer, Uppsala
• Per-Axel Karlsson, Ojebyn
• Albert Leentjens, Maastricht
• Mille Moeller Thastrum, Aarhus
• Michael Sharpe, Oxford
• Carmine Pariante, London
• David Taylor, London
• Kristina Orth Gomér, Stockholm
• Michael Ott, Umeå
• Kemuel Philbrick, Rochester
• Erika Sigvalius, Luleå
• Wolfgang Söllner, Nuremberg
• Barbara Stein, Nuremberg
• Sarah Wamala, Stockholm
• Ursula Werneke, Luleå

Potential Conflicts of interest speakers of plenary sessions, workshops and masterclasses

• Törbjörn van Elvsåshagen: Honoraria for lecturing from GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Lundbeck.
• Per-Axel Karlsson: Partcipation in several drug studies, particularly phase IV studies concerning potential adverse effects. Lately, collaboration with Lundbeck (om LAI), Janssen (Risperdal), Lilly (om Zypadhera) and Medivir (Adasuve). Many presentations for various hospitals and drug companies, but no economic interests.
• Albert Leentjens: Honorarium as Editor-in-Chief J Psychosom Res (which is affiliated with the EAPM); travel support.
• Robert Maunder: Royalties from a book written together with Jon Hunter on the topic of the talk.
• Carmine Pariante: Research grant from Johnson & Johnson and from a collaborative award with Wellcome Trust, Johnson & Johnson, GSK and Lundbeck.
• Colin Shapiro: I have shares in a company Neurozone and I will make reference to ways in which the company hopes to decrease stigma in psychiatry inter alia.
• David Taylor: Employment NHS, KCL, MHRN, DfT, DVLA; advisory Board member: Lundbeck, Servier, Sunovion; lectures: Janssen, Otsuka, Servier, Lundbeck; research Funding :  BMS, Janssen, Lundbeck; attendance at conferences: nil; shares or other interests: nil.
• Jim van Os: In the past 5 years, the Maastricht University psychiatric research fund managed by Prof. Jim van Os has received unrestricted investigator-led research grants or recompense for presenting research from Servier, Janssen-Cilag and Lundbeck, companies that have an interest in the treatment of psychosis.
• Ursula Werneke: Exhibitors at educational events UW has organized: Masterclass Psychiatry Programme and EAPM 2016, Luleå, Sweden: Astra Zeneca, Janssen, Lilly, Lundbeck, Novartis, Servier, Otsuka, Shire in 2014, 2015 and/or 2016.
• Simon Wessely: Trustee of Combat Stress, a veteran’s charity, the Science Media Centre and the Police Rehabilitation Trust.  I have received a speakers fee from  Janssen for a non promotional talk on psychological management of chronic fatigue syndrome.
• All others: No conflict of interest to report.