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cinp brief biography of plenary speakers
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
09:00 – 09:45
PL-05
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Plenary Lecture
Plenary Hall A
Clinical staging: Towards utility in diagnosis and clarity in neurobio-
logical understanding in psychiatry
Patrick D. McGorry, Australia
Chair: Siegfried Kasper, Austria
Patrick D. McGorry is Professor of Youth Mental Health at the Uni-
versity of Melbourne and Director of Orygen Youth Health and Ory-
gen Youth Health Research Centre in Victoria, Australia.
Prof. McGorry is a world-leading clinician, researcher, and reformer
in the areas of early psychosis, early intervention and youth mental
health. Prof. McGorry’s work has played an integral role in the devel-
opment of safe, effective treatments and innovative research involv-
ing the needs of young people with emerging mental disorders, no-
tably psychotic and severe mood disorders. The result has been the
creation, evaluation and upscaling of stigma-free, holistic and recov-
ery oriented models of care for young people and their families. The
work of Prof. McGorry and key research colleagues at EPPIC, Orygen
and headspace has influenced health policy in Australia and many
other countries. Prof. McGorry has published over 500 peer-re-
viewed papers and reviews, over 60 book chapters, and has edited 6
books. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Aus-
tralia and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the
Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2003, the Founders’
Medal of the Australian Society for Psychiatric Research in 2001 and
he was the 2010 Australian of the Year. He is current President of the
Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research.
wednesday, 25 June 2014
14:00 – 14:45
PL-06
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Plenary Lecture
Plenary Hall A
Optical deconstruction of fully-assembled biological systems
Karl Deisseroth, USA
Chair: Anthony Grace, USA
Karl Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and
Psychiatry at Stanford University. He earned his A.B. from Harvard
and M.D./Ph.D. from Stanford, serves as Director of Undergraduate
Education in Bioengineering at Stanford, and is a practicing psy-
chiatrist board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. He has developed and applied novel technologies for
controlling (optogenetics) and imaging (CLARITY) specific elements
within intact biological systems, and continues to develop and apply
new technologies to study physiology and behavior in health and
disease, as well as train researchers around the world. He has re-
ceived the NIH Pioneer Award (2005), Scheutze Prize (2008), Soci-
ety for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award (2009), Koetser
Prize (2010), Nakasone Prize (2010), Spencer Prize (2011), UNC/
Perl Prize (2012), Zuelch Prize (2012), Pasarow Prize (2013), BRAIN
prize (2013) and Lounsbery Prize (2013). Deisseroth is a member of
the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.
Patrick McGorry
Karl Deisseroth
