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PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 10

Prescription in pregnancy and breastfeeding

Facilitators

Half Day workshop- Forenoon (9am to 12pm)

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Prof Gihan ElNahas

Prof. Florence Thibaut

Psychiatry
Head WMH Unit, Medical School Ain Shams University, Egypt

Psychiatry
Head WMH, University of Paris,
France

Bio

Dr. Gihan ElNahas is Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Women’s Mental Health Program Neuropsychiatry Dept-WPA Collaborate Center, at Ain Shams Medical School. Egypt. She has pioneered advancements in women’s mental health through updated evidence-based guidelines for clinical education in partnership with OBG departments. She served as Mental Health Advisor for Egypt’s ‘Safe Women’ initiative, supporting gender-based violence survivors, and edited the IAWMH’s first CME-accredited course on Psychotropic Medications in Pregnancy and Lactation. She’s also part of the World Psychiatric Association's women’s mental health section.

Bio

Prof. Florence Thibaut is Professor of Psychiatry at the University Hospital Paris and the Paris Cité University, France. With a background in Psychiatry and Endocrinology, and a Ph.D. in Neurosciences, her expertise spans women's mental health, sexual violence, psychopharmacology, and addictive disorders.

Maximum Participants- 25 to 30

Note- Please confirm your eligibility for the workshop before applying.
If not eligible, the fee will not be refunded.

Eligible participants:

Practising psychiatrists, perinatal psychiatrists, obstetricians and gynaecologists and nurses, clinical pharmacologists

Objectives:

  1. The course will provide up to date guidelines on pharmacological treatment of perinatal depression and anxiety.

  2. The course will provide tips of practice that will enable participants to: 

  3. Discriminate the level of relative safety or risk of a specific psychotropic medications in pregnancy, 

  4. Comprehend and put to practise the basic principles of perinatal prescription of psychotropic medications in mood and anxiety disorders. 

  5. Practise the use of the risk-benefit approach in perinatal psychopharmacology • Recognize and put to action rational perinatal management through joint informed decision making. 

  6. Practise the use of reliable resources of information on the reproductive safety or risk of medications. 

Introduction:

Treatment of pregnant women essentially embraces strategies for pregnancy planning, and perinatal care, taking into consideration planning for the postpartum and breastfeeding period as well. In this session we are sharing up to date and comprehensive knowledge on the topic in order to help make rational collaborative and individualised treatment decisions concerning the prescription of psychotropic medications for common mental illnesses in the perinatal period. The course is structured to include a combination of short didactic presentations, two case-based scenarios and engaging exercise injects for group practice and discussions. 

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