WFMH World Congress

Santiago, Chile, 5-10 September

The Congress program is being finalized in Chile under the leadership of Professor Benjamin Vicente, M.D., WFMH Vice President for South America, and Eduardo Medina, M.D., President of the Chilean Society for Mental Health. Benedetto Saraceno, M.D., Director of the Mental Health Department at WHO, will attend. David Brandling Bennett, M.D., Deputy Director, and Itzhak Levav, M.D., Mental Health Advisor, will be present from the Pan American Health Organization of WHO.The program will have the usual diversity of topics, and simultaneous translation will be available for the plenary lectures. Spanish and English will be used for other parts of the program according to the preference of presenters.

Prevention and Promotion

Following the pattern developed in Dublin and Lahti, there will be a track on the prevention of mental health disorders and the promotion of mental health which will include the George Albee lecture, two plenary panels and ten workshops. The Albee lecture will be given by Ricardo A. Munoz, M.D., of the University of California at Santa Fe, USA, who in May completed his term as president of the American Psychiatric Association. His topic is depression and preventive interventions. The participants in the two plenary panels are (1) Sheppard Kellam, Beverly Long and Harvey Whiteford, and (2) Louis Caris, Clemens Hosman and Eero Lahtinen.

Registration

Copies of the Second Announcement brochure can be obtained from the Secretariat, and it is also on the Internet as a link from the WFMH web site at www.wfmh.org, where the registration forms can be downloaded. The Congress management company, Turismo Tajamar, can be contacted about registration and hotel bookings by email at [email protected] or [email protected], by fax (56 2 233 2996 or 56 2 231 4332), and by post at Orrego Luco 023, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.