(16th May, final day with social activities and departure)

The Swedish Eastern Europe Committé (SEEC/ÖEK) has for many years been involved in projects in Eastern Europe, and an effort has been made to address specifically needs and concerns of young psychiatrists. A grant from SIDA´s Baltic Sea Unit (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) made it possible to arrange for the first time an international meeting for young psychiatrists from the Baltic Sea Region, involving also Belarus through a prior collaboration with SEEC and many other Young Psychiatrists from eastern and western Europe and from trainee and young psychiatrist organisations such as European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees and WPA Early Career Council.

The focus of this meeting is to share educational experiences across Eastern and Western countries.  Topics in the programme include Neuropsychiatry, Addiction, use of diagnostic measures in Psychiatry, outcome measures in mental health services. There will be workshops (clinical topics, research oriented topics, workshops about possible future activities) and study visits. There will also be scheduled social events.

The organising committee consists of Young Psychiatrists from Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, the UK and Sweden, many of whom are also involved with European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees.

For more information please contact:
Jerker Hanson
Professor, Consultant Psychiatrist
Coordinator SEEC
E-mail: Jerker.hanson@telia.com

Marie Bendix
Consultant Psychiatrist
WPA Early Career Council
E-mail: Marie.bendix@glocalnet.net

More information can be found at: http://groups.google.com/group/young-psychiatrists-eastern-europe

The program of the Young Psychiatrists Meeting in Vilnius Lithuania

Speakers

• Aruna Germanivicius, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Clinic of Psychiatry, Vilnius University, Lithuania
• Bengt Lagerkvist, Professor, Umeå University Hospital, Sweden
• Irina Manouilenko, MD, PhD Student Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• Jeanette Georgieva, Professor, Addiction Centre, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Sweden
• Jerker Hanson, Professor, Coordinator SEEC, Senior Consultant, Södertälje, Sweden
• Linda Gjertsson, Head Psychologist, Umeå University Hospital, Sweden
• Marie Bendix, Consultant, Psychiatric Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden, WPA-Early Career Concil
• Marija Rusaka MD, PhD Student, Riga Stradins University, Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Riga, Latvia, President of Latvian Association of Psychiatric Trainees.
• Martynas Andrijevskis, Consultant, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Oleg Aizberg, MD, PhD, Associated professor, Belarussian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Minsk, Belarus
• Olga Paravaya, MD, Psychiatric Clinic, PhD student, Belarussian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Minsk, Belarus
• Piirika Piir, MD, Tallinn, Estonia, WPA Early Career Council
• Ramon Pebenito Jr., USA, Fullbright Student, Researcher on Mental Health Policy in Eastern Europe with Focus onto Lithuania, Associated at Clinic of Psychiatry, Vilnius University
• Sameer Jauhar, MD, Senior Registrar, Edinburgh, UK, Head of EFPT Research Group
• Tonny Andersén, Professor, Umeå University Hospital, Sweden