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Scientific Program 

Time

Program

Title

Venue

Day 1: 05 March, 2025

08:00 Hrs Onwards

Registration

Breakfast with Mentors 

08:00 Hrs - 09:00 Hrs

Guest House Terrace 

Preconference Workshops

09:00 Hrs - 16:00 Hrs

HALL B, C, D, E, F, G

17:00 Hrs 

Opening Ceremony, Inaugural Talks, Dinner

Hall A

Plenary- Prof. Gina Rippon

The Gendered Brain: Do you have a female

brain or a male brain? Or are we asking the wrong question?

Hall A

Plenary-Ms. Neha Kirpal

Women's Mental Health: Weaving Lived Experience, Expertise and Action

Hall A

Inaugural Dinner

Dining Area

Day 2: 06 March, 2025

07:30 Hrs - 8:45 Hrs

Breakfast with Mentors

Guest House Terrace 

08:00 Hrs - 09:00 Hrs

Oral Presentations and Moderated Poster Session

08:00 Hrs Onwards

Registration

09:00 Hrs - 09:30 Hrs

Plenary 1- Prof Prabha S Chandra

Presidential Address

Hall A

09:30 Hrs - 10:00 Hrs

Plenary 2- Prof. Norman Sartorius

Priorities for Mental Health, 2025

Hall A

10:10 Hrs - 11:15 Hrs

Panel Discussion / Case Conference

11:15 Hrs - 11.45 Hrs

Including transition time

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11:45 Hrs - 12:45 Hrs

Symposia/Workshops

13:00 Hrs - 14:00 Hrs

Lunch

Dining Area

14:00 Hrs - 14:30 Hrs

Plenary 3- Prof. Gihan EL Nahas

From Struggle to Strength: Navigating Women's Mental Health in the Arab States

Hall A

14:30 Hrs - 15:00 Hrs

Plenary 4- Prof. Vindhya U

Surfeit of Caregiving and Mismatch of Gender Role Expectations: Women’s Mental Health at the Cusp of Social Change

Hall A

15:00 Hrs - 16:00 Hrs

Including transition time

Coffee Break and Moderated Poster Session 

16:00 Hrs - 17:00 Hrs

Symposia/Workshops

17:30 Hrs 

Conference Fringe 

Convention Centre

Day 3: 07 March, 2025

07:30 Hrs - 08.45 Hrs

Breakfast with Mentors

Guest House Terrace 

08:00 Hrs - 09:00 Hrs

Oral Presentations

08:00 Hrs Onwards

Registration

09:00 Hrs - 09:30 Hrs

Plenary 5 - Prof. Donna Stewart Award - Prof.Jane Fisher 

Hall A

Consideration of gender: essential to effective prevention, practice and policy

in women's mental health 

09:30 Hrs - 10:00 Hrs

Plenary 6 - Prof. Lakshmi Yatham

Management of Bipolar Disorders in Women 

Hall A

10:10 Hrs - 11:15 Hrs

Panel Discussion / Case Conference

11:15 Hrs - 11.45 Hrs

Including transition time

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11:45 Hrs - 12:45 Hrs

Symposia/Workshops

13:00 Hrs - 14:00 Hrs

Lunch

14:00 Hrs - 14:30 Hrs

Plenary 7- Prof. Vidita Vaidya

Hall A

Early Adversity and Accelerated Aging :

The persistent scars of early trauma

14:30 Hrs - 15:00 Hrs

Plenary 8- Prof. Iris Sommer - Virtual Talk 

Hall A

“Sex and estrogens; relevant for pharmacotherapy”

15:00 Hrs - 16:00 Hrs

Including transition time

Coffee Break and moderated poster session

16:00 Hrs - 17:00 Hrs

Symposia/Workshops

17:30 Hrs 

Conference Fringe 

Convention Centre

19:00 Hrs Onwards

Banquet

Dining Area

Day 4: 08 March, 2025

07:30 Hrs - 08.45 Hrs

Breakfast with Mentors

Guest House Terrace 

08:00 Hrs - 09:00 Hrs

Oral Presentations

09:00 Hrs - 09:30 Hrs

Plenary 9 - Dr. Hela Ouennich

Hall A

Perinatal Mental Health in MENA

region : Best practices 

09:30 Hrs - 10:00 Hrs

Plenary 10 -Prof Christina Hoven

Role Assignment: Infant Girls to

Women's Mental Health

Hall A

10:10 Hrs - 11:15 Hrs

Panel Discussion / Case Conference

11:15 Hrs - 11.45 Hrs

Including transition time

Coffee Break

11:45 Hrs - 12:45 Hrs

Symposia/Workshops

13:00 Hrs - 14:00 Hrs

Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 Hrs - 14:30 Hrs

Plenary 11 -Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar

Suicide in women- the knowns

and the unknowns

Hall A

14:30 Hrs - 15:00 Hrs

Plenary 12- Dr Judith Usall

Women and psychosis: challenges for

future research- Valedictory talk 

Hall A

15:00 Hrs - 16:00 Hrs

Including transition time

Coffee Break and moderated poster session

16:00 Hrs - 17:00 Hrs

Workshops/Symposia

17:30 Hrs 

Invitation to Barcelona

Convention Centre

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