Veterans' Mental Health Conference - The importance of integrating health and wellbeing research & clinical practice
Bush House South East Wing, Strand Campus, London
Organised by the King’s Centre for Military Health Research. We are bringing together leading academics, researchers, medical professionals and charities to discuss the key issues in military mental health and the Armed Forces community.
Programme:
Session 1: Why integrated healthcare matters
09:00 - 09:30 : Registration
09:30 - 09:40 : Opening Address (Professor Sir Simon Wessely)
09:40 - 10:00 : Prevalence of mental and physical heath disorders in military veterans: a comparison study using primary healthcare data (Prof. Alan P Finnegan)
10:00 - 10:20 : Speaker (TBC)
10:20 - 10:40 : What is the impact on the mental health of Canadian military families? (Dr Alyson Mahar)
10:40 - 11:00 : Learning from the lived experiences of help-seeking
11:00 - 11:30 : BREAK
Session 2: Parallel Sessions: Highlighting the latest health & wellbeing
11:30 - 12:30 : 4 talks with invited speakers (Speakers TBC)
12:30 - 13:30 : LUNCH & NETWORKING
Session 3: Examples of health and wellbeing disorders that need an integrated approach
13:30 - 13:50 : Delivering the UK government's first Women Veterans' Strategy (Georgina Drysdale)
13:50 - 14:10 : Advancing chronic pain research to improve Veteran health and well-being (Dr Abhimanyu Sud)
14:10 - 14:30 : Imaging trauma: Neuroimaging research in posttraumatic stress disorder in military personnel (Professor Elbert Geuze)
14:30 - 14:50 : Is anger in veterans a public health issue? (Professor David Forbes)
14:50 - 15:20 : BREAK
Session 4: Bringing it together
15:20 - 15:40 : To be announced
15:50 - 16:10 : What epidemiological data can tell us about co-morbidity and complex health needs (Dr Marie-Louise Sharp)
16:10 - 16:50 : What are the benefits and challenges of integrating health systems: panel discussion (Commissioners and experts - Danny Kinahan, Craig Jones, Dr Gwen O'Connor, Kate McCullough, Michelle Alston)
16:50 - 17:00 : Closing remarks + poster winner announced
At this event
Professor of Epidemiology
Senior Research Fellow
Regius Professor of Psychiatry
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