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