As COVID-19 is hugely affecting the way we meet, communicate and share knowledge, the 19th International ESCAP Congress is postponed until 2022. ESCAP are determined not to let the restrictions affect how often we meet, therefore, we will host a 1-day virtual event on the 25th June 2021. This event will have keynote presentations on diverse topics that are relevant in child and adolescent psychiatry in today's challenging world.
In collaboration with UEMS-CAP and EFPT, ESCAP will also organise a Training Day prior to the event on the 24th June, available only to residents, trainees and early career CAPs.
The ESCAP General Assembly will also take place at the closure of the event on the 25th June Expert Day. All member countries will receive an invitation to participate.
The ESCAP Expert Day - Changing perspectives will aim to be an interactive and dynamic virtual event that will be centred around five keynote speakers addressing concerns that are relevant in todays changing world:
Keynote presentation: Treatment of ADHD: from evidence base to practice
Senior investigator at NIMH, Section on Clinical and Computational Psychiatry, NIMH, NIH
Keynote presentation: Should we get rid of the term depression? A reflection on history and heterogeneity of affective nosology.
Junior professorship for clinical and preclinical trauma consequences, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy at Ulm University Hospital, Germany
Keynote presentation: Childhood trauma – too complex for complex PTSD?
Professor of neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London, UK
Keynote presentation: Using pharmacology to improve treatment decisions
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Strasbourg University, France
Keynote presentation: Sleep-dependant mental health in children and adolescents
To be confirmed
This event will be a fixed fee of €80 for all (specialists and trainees) with a reduced €60 for those in lower-income countries.
Trainees will have the option of joining the 24th June training day for free upon registration.
An additional option is a €20 (plus VAT) subscription fee for the ESCAP official journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Registration will open on the 20th January 2021.
More information about the precise program will be available in the coming months.
