UCD School of Medicine: Covid-19 Weekly Webinars

Webinar Schedule

Date	*Topic*	*Speaker*
22^nd May 2020	Management Approaches for ADHD during the Covid-19 virus pandemic	Prof Samuele Cortese (Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Southampton)
29^th May 2020	Psychosocial Response to Epidemics – Lessons from Ebola Applied to COVID-19	Dr Peter Hughes (Consultant Psychiatrist/Hon Senior Lecturer at Springfield University Hospital, London)
5th June 2020	Mental health impact of COVID19 on healthcare staff and what to do about it	Prof Neil Greenberg (Consultant Occupational and Forensic Psychiatrist)
12^th June 2020	Digital Parent Training STEPS and “Families Under Pressure”	Prof Edmund Sonuga Barke (Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King’s College London)
19^th June 2020	Youth Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic	Prof Pat McGorry (Professor of Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne)
26^th June 2020	Early Intervention for Psychosis and the Covid-19 pandemic	Dr Brian O’Donoghue (Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne)
3^rd July 2020	Implications of the Pandemic for Children in Residential Institutions	Mr Philip Goldman (Founder and President, Maestral International, Minneapolis, MN.)
10^th July 2020	Anxiety and Covid-19	Dr Michael Sweeney (Director, Metropolitan Center for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, New York)
17^th July 2020	Research Priorities for the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Action for Mental Health Science	Prof Tamsin Forde (Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK)
24^th July 2020	The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease	Prof Steven Taylor (Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
31^st July 2020	Suicide and COVID-19	Professor David J Gunnell (Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Bristol) Dr Patrick Devitt (former Irish Inspector of Mental Health Services)
7^th August 2020	Neurodiversity & the Impact of COVID-19	Dr Lawrence Fung (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, CA.)
14^th August 2020	Going Electronic in the time of COVID	Prof Paramala Santosh (Professor of Development Neuropsychiatry & Psychopharmacology, King’s College London)
21^st August 2020	The Impact of Covid-19 on Depression in Youth	Prof Argyris Stringaris (Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University)
28^th August 2020	Reducing the Harmful Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Professionals Resilience Coaches in a General Hospital.	Prof Robert Maunder (Chair in Health and Behaviour at Sinai Health, Deputy Psychiatrist-in-Chief & Head of Psychiatry Research, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto)
4^th September 2020	Eating Disorders: The impact of Covid 19	Dr Mima Simic (Joint Head of the Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders Service, South London and Maudsley Trust and a consultant psychiatrist with the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service)
11^th September 2020	Susceptibility to and Transmission of COVID-19 Amongst Children and Adolescents Compared with Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	Prof Russell Viner Consultant Paediatrician, University College Hospital, London Professor in Adolescent Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK
18^th September 2020	The Impact of COVID-19 on Psychosis	Dr Ellie Brown Research Fellow, Orygen Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
25^th September 2020	Alcohol Self-Management During COVID-19 and Beyond	Dr Peter Rice Consultant Psychiatrist Chair, Tayside Council on Alcohol Past Chair, Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland
2nd October 2020	When Patients Refuse COVID-19 Testing, Quarantine, and Social Distancing in In-patient Psychiatry: Clinical and Ethical Challenges	Dr Dominic Sisti Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
9th October 2020	COVID-19 on an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Ward	Dr Mudasir Firdosi Consultant Psychiatrist at South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s, University of London
16th October 2020	Occupation Stress and Burnout among Health Care Workers Session1, Session2 BW, Session2 JH&SC, Session2 KT, Session3	Virtual Conference 9:30 - 1:30
23rd October 2020	Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric Presentations & Severe Coronavirus Infections PPT Webinar 23	Dr Jonathan P Rogers Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow Specialty Registrar, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Division of Psychiatry, University College London
23rd October 2020 1:30 - 2:30pm	COVID-19 Perspectives in the Irish Journal of Psychological Health - A reflection & Discussion	Dr John Lyne Editor-in-Chief, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine with short presentations by contributing authors.
30th October 2020	Supporting Children’s Mental Health in context of COVID in School PPT Webinar 24	Prof Gordon Harold Professor, Psychology of Education and Mental Health Faculty of Education, Uni of Cambridge Director,Rudd Centre for Adoption Research and Practice
6th November 2020	Immunopsychiatry: Infections, Inflammation and the Link with Mental Health	Professor Michael Eriksen Benros Professor of Immuno-Psychiatry, Depart of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen Head of Biological and Precision Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital
13th November 2020	Exposing the Most Serious Infirmity – Racism’s Impact on Health in the Era of COVID‐19	Dr Wilfred H. Farquharson Psychiatrist, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioural Health Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University
20th November 2020	Addressing the Public Mental Health Challenge of COVID-19 JCampion Presentation Publications Campion Knapp 2017 Economic case for improved coverage of PMH interventions	Dr Jonathan Campion Director for Public Mental Health & Consultant Psychiatrist South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Visiting Professor of Population Mental Health, University College London
27th November 2020	COVID-19 and Racism Rajesh Mohan Presentation Slides	Dr Rajesh Mohan RCPsych Race Equality Lead
4th December 2020	The Neurology and Psychiatry of COVID-19	Dr Tim Nicholson Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
11th December 2020	Children's Mental Health During COVID-19: A Multilevel Examination of Family Stress Risk and Resilience in Family Well-Being During the C19 Pandemic Supporting patient and clinician mental health during C19	Prof Dillon Browne Chair in Child and Family Clinical Psychology University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
08th January 2021 13.00 - 14.00	Presidential Priorities and the Pandemic	Prof Adrian James Chair of Royal College of Psychiatrists
15th January 2021 EVENT rescheduled to 26th Feb 2021	Novel Psychoactive Substances: what you need to know about 800 drugs in 45 minutes Novel psychoactive substances: types, mechanisms of action, and effects	Dr Derek Tracey Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London Senior Lecturer, King's College London
22nd January 2021 Register	Psychosocial Problems of The COVID-19 Pandemic: A European View Italian Prisons during the COVID-19 Outbreak Management of older people during the COVID-19 outbreak: Recommendations from an Italian experience Mental Health in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Emergency: The Italian Response Older People Living in Long-Term Care Facilities and Mortality Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: Preliminary Epidemiological Data and Lessons to Learn Psychiatric hospitalization rates in Italy before and during COVID-19: did they change? An analysis of register data	Dr. Giovanni de Girolamo Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the Department of Psychology, Catholic University, Milan Former Scientific Director of the St John of God Clinical Research Centre (IRCCS) in Brescia, Italy Head of the Unit of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Evaluation
29th January 2021 Register	Lessons learned in lockdown – findings from a one‐day remotely delivered training on low‐intensity psychological interventions for common mental health conditions	Dr Matteo Catanzano Doctoral student and Honorary Clinical Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK and Psychological and Mental Health Services, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
05th February 2021 Register	Psychotropic Medication and COVID-19	Giovanni Ostuzzi Psychiatrist, University of Verona - UNIVR Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Section of Psychiatry
12th February 2021 Register	Trauma: The Impact of COVID-19	Dr Jo Stubley Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst and Lead Clinician for the Tavistock Trauma Service
19th February 2021	TBA
26th February 2021 Register	Novel Psychoactive Substances: what you need to know about 800 drugs in 45 minutes	Dr Derek Tracey Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London Senior Lecturer, King's College London

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