Theodoore Petti completed his MD at Case-Western Reserve University, general psychiatry training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, child and adolescent psychiatry training at Bellevue-New York University, and MPH at the University of Pittsburgh. He is Professor of Psychiatry and has had numerous leadership positions in academia and professional organizations. He is widely published with varied research interests that evolved around, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and service delivery of the most severe pediatric psychiatric disorders, particularly depression in which he was among the earliest proponents of its existence in children, ADHD, coping styles, and language/communication disorders

Pediatric psychiatric disorders,ADHD and language/communication disorders

Andrea J Levinson is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Health & Wellness, at the University of Toronto. She is responsible for the provision and management of psychiatric services to U of T students, primarily from the St. George campus. She supervises all of the psychiatric activity, and acts as a resource for the university community on mental health issues across the campus. She is also a graduate of the Clinician Scientist Program and received a Master’s of Science degree for her research in that program. She has extensive youth psychiatry, having founded an early intervention clinic for young people with new onset bipolar disorders. Currently, she is the Clinical Lead in Bipolar Disorders at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Psychiatry, mental health, bipolar disorder and addiction

ANGEL JOSÉ SALVADOR CASANOVA. MEDICAL PSYCHIATRIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, MASTER IN DRUG DEPENDENCIES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE OF THE UNIVERSITY COMPLUTENSE OF MADRID. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SUCH FACULTY. CLINICAL HEAD OF PSICOMED S.L. HAS BEEN HEAD OF SERVICE OF SOCIO-HEALTH PROGRAMS OF THE GOVERNMENT'S DELEGATION FOR THE NATIONAL DRUG PLAN. MADRID. SPAIN.

Addiction

WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Psychiatry, Stroke, Substance abuse and Postnatal depression

Digdem M Siyez is a Professor in the Department of Counseling and Guidance at the Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey. She received her PhD in Counseling and Guidance at the Dokuz Eylul University. Her current research interests include Sexual Health, Gender, Adolescence Development and Prevention.

Sexual Health, Gender, Adolescence Development and Prevention.

Prasanna Jayatilake has his interest and practice in the branch of Applied Psychology on Mindfulness and its practical applications in counselling. He employs the Buddhist Concept of Mindfulness (BCM) in counselling, which is universal and highly effective technique to enhance consolidated therapeutic outcomes of clients. While himself being a mindfulness practitioner, he helps clients to identify the root causes of problems by bringing their awareness about the true nature of the existence and be mindful about it. The regular practice of mindfulness would bring the potential of the clients to a level that they would not shake in any challenging life situation. In his 22 years of practice as a Counsellor, he has witnessed a marked recovery of clients in the said process. His motive of research is to establish a “Mindfulness Counselling” model, to benefit the clients in a more effective manner

Applied Psychology