21^st August 2024   

                  PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP  

14:00-18:00 hours

Workshop 1

Compensatory Cognitive Training

Workshop 1

Dementia: Practical Refresher Course for Clinicians

                      22^nd August 2024   

                 SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS (DAY 1)  

7:30 hours

Registration

8:00-9:00 hours

Poster Viewing

9:00-10:10 hours
(70 minutes)

Hall A

Plenary 1 & 2

Chair: Graham Murray

Frances Dark, Australia (online)

Craig Morgan, UK

10:15-11:45 hours hours

    (90 minutes) 

Hall A

Hall B 

Symposium 1

Community responses to persons with Psychoses

Chair: Victoria Bird

Mohan Isaac,Australia  

Amresh Shrivastava, Canada

Lakshmi Venkatraman, India

Symposium 2

First Episode Psychosis: An Indian Perspective

Chair: Swapna Verma

      Avinash Desouza, India  

     Greeshma Mohan C, India  

     Suhas Ganesh, India  

11:45-12:00 hours

Tea Break

12:00–13:10 hourss
(70 minutes)

Hall A

Plenary 3 & 4

Chair: Thara R

Swaran Preet Singh, UK

Srinivasan Tirupati, Australia

13:10–14:10 hours

Lunch Break

14:10–15:40 hours

    (90 minutes)

Symposium 3

Youth Mental Health in Singapore

Chair: Swaran Preet Singh

Swapna Verma, Singapore,  

Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Singapore

Lee Yi Ping, Singapore

Symposium 4

INTREPID 3

Chair: Alex Cohen

Casswina Donald, Trinidad

Olatunde Ayinde, Nigeria

Padmavati R, India

Ganesh N Rajan, India

15:40–16:00 hours
(45 minutes)

Tea Break

16:00-17:30 hours
(90 minutes)

Plenary

Young Researcher Award

18:30 hours

Inauguration

Dr. SARADA MENON ORATION

Ashok Malla, Canada

                      23^rd August 2024   

                 SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS (DAY 2)  

TIME

Hall A

7:30 hours

Registration

8:00-9:00 hours

Poster Viewing

9:00-10:10 hours

  (70 minutes)

Hall A

Plenary 5 & 6

Chair: Craig Morgan

Soumya Swaminathan, India

Wim Veling, Netherlands

10:15-11:45 hours

    (90 minutes) 

Hall A

Hall B 

Symposium 5

Psychosocial Rehabilitation across Settings

Chair : PP Kannan

Victoria Bird, UK   

Aarthi Jegannathan, India

Jainey Joseph, India

Symposium 6

Mental Health Interventions for Youth

Chair: Tasneem Raja

     Shruti Rao, India  

     Jagdish Giri, India  

     Rachana Parikh, India  

     Anish V Cherian, India  

     Kamala Easwaran, India  

11:45-12:00 hours
(15 minutes)

Tea Break

12:00-13:30 hours

    (90 minutes)

Symposium 7

Community Engagement for mental health services

Chair: Jagadisha Thirthalli

Krishna Prasad, India 

Subendran Mahendranathan, Sri Lanka

R Mangala, India

Symposium 8

Mental health of vulnerable populations

Chair: Dr.Srividya Iyer

Dr.Suvarna Jothi

Dr.Shiva Prakash

Dr.Jayakumar Menon

13:30-14:15 hours
(45 minutes)

Lunch Break

14:15-15:45 hours

Symposium 9

Climate Change

Chair : Lakshmi Vijayakumar

Mala Rao, Canada 

Philippe Conus, Switzerland

Vidhya Venugopal, India

Symposium 10

Indian Research in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Bench to Bedside

Chair: Laxmikant Rathi

Sandeep Grover, India

Vanteemar S Sreeraj, India

Jagadisha Thirthalli, India

16:00-17:45 hours

  (105 minutes)

Hall A

Plenary 7,8 & 9

Chair - Wim Veling

Pratima Murthi, India

Jai L Shah, Canada (virtual)

Graham Murray, UK

18:30 hours

BANQUET-SCARF 40 YEARS CELEBRATION

                     24^th August 2024   

                 SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS (DAY 3)  

TIME

Hall A

7:30 hours

Registration

8:00-9:00 hours

Poster Viewing

9:00-10:10 hours

  (70 minutes)

Hall A

Plenary 10 & 11

Chair: Alex Cohen

Srividya Iyer, Canada

Tasneem Raja, India

10:15-11:30 hours

    (90 minutes) 

Hall A

Hall B 

Symposium 11

Multi-level, holistic interventions for youth wellbeing

Chair: Matt Hughsam

Orlaith O'Sullivan, Ireland  

Suresh Kumar M,India

Jagadeesan Settu, India

Symposium 12

Enhancing Outcomes for Schizophrenia and Psychosis

Chair: Sadanand Rajkumar

     Vinay Lakra, Australia  

     C Ramasubramanian, India  

     Olatunde Ayinde, Nigeria  

11:30-11:50 hours

Tea Break

11:50-13:20 hours

    (90 minutes)

Symposium 13

Lived Experience Panel

Chair:M Suresh Kumar

Sumit Guha, India 

Gita Jayaraj, India

Adithya Krishnamoorthy, India

Anerudh M, India

Symposium 14

Psychoses in Elderly

Chair: Malaiappan. M

Perminder Sachdev, Australia

Dilip Jeste, USA

Palanimuthu Thangaraju Sivakumar, India

13:20-14:00 hours

Valedictory

14:00 hours

Lunch