 |
Professor Henry Brodaty
AO, MB BS, MD, FRACP, FRANZCP (Australia), President-Elect
Opening Presenter
Henry Brodaty is the Scientia Professor of Ageing and Mental Health and Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. A member of IPA since 1991, he served on the Board of Directors from 1994-2002. He was a founding executive member of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and became President-Elect of IPA in 2011.
|
 |
Professor Byrne is Professor and Head of Psychiatry within the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is also Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital. He is a Past-President of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
|
 |
Professor Len Gray
MB BS, MMed, PhD, FRACP, FACHSE, FAAG
Professor Gray is a Professor in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia, an appointment that he began in early 2002. Previously, he held a variety of senior general and aged care management positions within the public health system in Melbourne, Victoria, and an academic appointment at Melbourne University.
Professor Gray, an expert in the area of best practice in hospital care for older adults, will present on dementia care in the general hospital - what we know and what needs to be done to do the job properly.
|
 |
Dr Huang was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1972. In 1997, he received his M.D. degree from National Yang-Ming University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 2002 and 2001, respectively.
From 2003 to 2007, he was an attending physician in psychiatry in Chia-Yi Veterans Hospital, Taiwan. He serves the director in department of psychiatry, Chia-Yi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan since 2007.
|
 |
Dr Manabu Ikeda
MD, PhD (Japan), Board of Directors
Dr Ikeda has been a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropathobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences at Kumamoto University since 2007. Much of his work has dealt with the clinical research in old age psychiatry and neuropsychology. His main interest is in behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in dementia with underlying neuroanatomical basis.
Dr Ikeda will speak about the Tohoku Tsunami disaster, and the responses to the event from a mental health perspective, particularly the challenges of coordinating such a disaster response in an urban environment.
|
 |
Dr Edward Strivens is the Regional Geriatrician and Clinical Director for Older Person Health Services in Cairns and Hinterland Health Service District in Far North Queensland. Dr Strivens is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with James Cook University School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Dr Strivens will be speaking to the topic of dementia care in indigenous Australians - challenges and insights from the field, informed by his many years of clinical practice in this area.
|
 |
Julie Wetherell, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and Staff Psychologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, where she directs the Behavioral Medicine program in Home-Based Primary Care, which provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary care services in the homes of older veterans with chronic and disabling disease.
Dr Wetherell will discuss pharmacological and psychological approaches for treating anxiety in older people, including anxiety presenting as comorbid with depression.
|
