Bulletin 14.02.08

1. Message from President
2. ASPR Committee Contacts
3. ASPR Matters
4. Conferences and Related
5. Scholarships and Positions Available

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1. Message From President

Dear All,
As you are probably aware Professor Henry Jackson is away on long service leave until March. On his return he will detail items that came out of the AGM and directions for 2008.
I am Rachael Guy (replacing Andrea Sumner) – during the past month I have been collating and updating membership for the ASPR. Thankyou to all those who confirmed their details with me!

Regards
Rachael Guy

2. ASPR Committee Contacts

Henry Jackson (President)                    henryjj@unimelb.edu.au
Trevor Norman (Secretary)                  trevorrn@unimelb.edu.au
Andrew Mackinnon (Treasurer)            Andrew.Mackinnon@anu.edu.au

ACT:  Dr Peter Butterworth                  Peter.Butterworth@anu.edu.au
NSW: Dr Helen Stain                           Helen.Stain@newcastle.edu.au
NZ:    Dr Caroline Bell                          caroline.bell@chmeds.ac.nz
QLD: Dr Geoff Waghorn                      geoff_waghorn@qcmhr.uq.edu.au
SA:    Prof Cherrie Galletly                   cherrie@drgalletly.com
VIC:   Prof Graham Burrows                gdb@unimelb.edu.au
WA:  Giulietta Valuri                             giulietta.valuri@uwa.edu.au
TAS:  NIL
Clair Kelly (coopted)                            ckel@unimelb.edu.au
Brian Dean (coopted)                           bdean_mhri@iprimus.com.au  
Elizabeth Scarr (coopted)                     elscarr@unimelb.edu.au
Eoin Killackey (coopted)                      eoin@unimelb.edu.au

3. ASPR Matters

4. Conferences And Related

Australian Society for Experimental Psychology
March 28-29, Fremantle WA

The next annual meeting of the Australian Society for Experimental Psychology will be held March 28-20 Fremantle, WA.
The society webpage www.asep.com.au
The conference webpage http://www.asep.com.au/EPC08Web/index.htm

Women’s Mental Health

Melbourne is the host city for the 3rd International Congress on Women’s Mental Health that will be held from 16-20 March 2008.  Building on the success of the two previous Congress' held in Berlin (2000) and Washington (2004), this multidisciplinary Congress is expected to attract in excess of 1000 mental health professionals, researchers, educators, healthcare workers, administrators, policy makers, academics, consumers, carers and field workers from across the globe. Under the sponsorship of the International Association for Women’s Mental Health and other Associates, and hosted by the Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, we will present an innovative program focusing on the psychosocial, biological and clinical sciences of women’s mental health from individual, family, society, community and global perspectives.  The call for papers is now open. For further information, please visit the Congress website www.iawmhcongress2008.com.au

3rd International Congress on Women’s Mental Health 

17th - 20th March 2008 

 REGISTER NOW!!

The Congress is now less than 60 days away!  Click here to register now, if you have not already done so!  If you would like to receive a hard copy of the registration brochure, please e-mail iawmhcongress2008@wsm.com.au with your postal address details.
Group Registrations
If you would like to register ten or more people from your organisation, a group registration discount is available.  For further information, please e-mail iawmhcongress2008@wsm.com.au with details on how many people you wish to register and we will be able to advise you of the applicable discount.

Program Highlights

The Congress program is almost finalised.  Here some of the topics you can expect to see addressed at the Congress:
- International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Mental Health
- Issues in Perinatal Mental Health
- Women, Trauma, Abuse and Violence
- Neurobiology of Estrogen Action in Mental Illness
- Depression during the Menopausal Transition: A Critical Review of Risk Factors and Evidence-Based Treatment Strategies
- Issues in Drug Abuse Treatment of Women: Translation from the Lab to the Clinic
- Women's Mental Health in Refugee, Immigrant, and Displaced Populations
- Hormones, Mood, Sleep, and Cognition
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Girls
- Prevention of Eating Disorders

To view a current draft of the Congress program, please click here.

For further information please contact:
3rd International Congress on Women’s Mental Health
Congress Managers
WALDRONSMITH Management
61 Danks Street West
Port Melbourne  VIC  3207
Tel: +61 3 9645 6311
Fax: +61 3 9645 6322
E-mail: iawmhcongress2008@wsm.com.au

Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disease Conference
3-5 september 2008
prato, tuscany

A world-first conference on psychoneurocardiology
in prato, tuscany, italy
The Baker Heart Research Institute inaugural “Heart and Mind” conference will be held in the delightful Tuscan town of Prato, Italy, from 3-5 September, 2008. The Baker Heart Research Institute is Australia’s highest profile and most productive cardiovascular research institute.

The conference will have as its centrepoint the link between psychological medicine and cardiovascular disease, delineating the relationship between stress, mental illness, and the development and course of heart disease and hypertension. It will showcase the crucial epidemiology, mediating neural and other mechanisms, and social and psychological measures applicable to prevention and treatment. There will be invited addresses by international leaders in the field. The target audience will be general practitioners, cardiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, epidemiologists and social scientists.

For program details, registration and abstract submission visit www.heartandmind.prato2008.com

National Dementia Research Forum

18 – 19 September 2008
Sydney Masonic Centre
http://www.dementia.unsw.edu.au
dementiacrc@unsw.edu.au

5. Scholarships And Positions Available