MONASH PSYCHIATRY ACADEMIC DAY, 12 September

Tuesday 12 September, 8.30AM - 4.30PM

Lecture Theatres G29 and G30, New Horizons, 20 Research Way, Monash University Clayton Campus

This is a free event but registration is essential. Please email Andrea Peres at andrea.peres@monash.edu by Thursday, 7 September.

Monash Psychiatry Academic Day Workshop Program 2017
8.30am	REGISTRATION
Session 1	Chair: Prof David Kissane
9.00am	Prof Maurice Eisenbruch	How is violence shaped by culture?  Gender based violence and acid attack, and sexual and physical abuse of children in Cambodia
9.20am	Dr Vaidy Swaminathan	Is epidermal growth factor system dysfunction associated with schizophrenia subtypes?
9.40am	Dr Joanne Brooker	Mindful Self-Compassion Program for people diagnosed with cancer: A feasibility and acceptability study
10.00am	Ms Alexandra Creighton	An examination of anxiety among older adults in residential care
10.20am	MORNING TEA
Session 2	Chair: Dr Phyllis Chua
10.50am	Dr Jo Enticott	Taking psychological distress epidemiology to scale: a cross-national equity study comparing Australia and Canada
11.10am	Ms Felicity Moon	End of life care in dementia
11.30am	Dr Irene Bobevski	Preventing postnatal demoralisation: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychoeducational intervention
11.50am	Ms Katrina Long	Evaluating the role of modelling in healthcare decision-making: A case study
12.10pm	Ms Vesna Begic	Initial Validity and Reliability of a New Measure of Distorted Maternal Representations (in a high-risk clinical sample): The Mother-Infant Relationship Scale
12.30pm	LUNCH
Session 3	Chair: Dr Glenn Melvin
1.30pm	Mr Sam Cooper	Post-migration determinants of mental illness among humanitarian migrants; longitudinal analysis of findings from the first two waves of large cohort study
1.50pm	Ms Emily Wallman	Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Anxiety in Adolescents with Depression
2.10pm	Mr Jae Oh	Young adults’ view on heath apps
2.30pm	Ms Samantha Teague	Associations between attachment and child behaviour and emotional problems in Autism Spectrum Disorder
2.50pm	AFTERNOON TEA
Session 4	Chair: Prof Suresh Sundram
3.10pm	Ms Sarah Buchanan-Pascall	Child behaviour outcomes of a multi-component early intervention program in primary school settings: a cluster randomized trial
3.30pm	Ms Adrienne Grech	Investigating learning and memory by disrupting BDNF/TrkB-signalling at parvalbumin-inhibitory interneurons
3.50pm	Dr Frank Giorlando	Can We Reduce Clozapine Dose and Side-Effects by Augmenting with Fluvoxamine?
4.10pm	Dr Melissa Casey	Re-presentations to Emergency Department: Continuously learning what our complex patients require
4.30pm	FINISH

 

Sharing our research in a day that will bring clinicians and academics together