January 2000
Bulletin Issue 3
(for internal circulation to members only)

An Evening Symposium with
Dr Nancy Andreasen, MD, PhD

18 February 2000

SPA together with the Academy of Medicine, Chapter of Psychiatrists, will be co-hosting an evening symposium with Prof Nancy Andreasen as our guest speaker. Prof Andreasen is no stranger to Singapore psychiatrists, having spoken here previously. She is an eminent speaker and authority on biological psychiatry and schizophrenia, with several books and more than 100 scientific papers published. A former professor of English before she took up medicine, she is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa in Iowa City

Other details about this symposium, sponsored by Janssen-Cilag, will be publicised later. Do remember to mark this date in your calendar.

2^nd Asia Pacific
Psychopharmacology Workshop

21 February 2000

The 2^nd Asia-Pacific Psychopharmaco-logy Workshop: Setting New Expectations is a major, one-day, Asia-Pacific, stand-alone meeting which is a follow-up to the first meeting held in Hong Kong in November 1998. This meeting, funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Janssen-Cilag, will provide a forum for the presentation of the latest information on various aspects of schizophrenia management with many international key opinion leaders as speakers.

The meeting will consist of several plenary sessions in the morning on advocacy, care provider issues and the role of novel antipsychotics. The afternoon workshops will be on various aspects of psychosis management.

Sponsorship covering accommodation and airfare for 10 doctors is available. Those interested, kindly contact Dr Francis Ngui by 25 January 2000.

Asia Pacific Regional Neuroscience Conference

5 – 8 March 2000

This international conference, organised by Eli Lilly, will be held in Phuket, Thailand from 5th to 8th March 2000. Delegates will be from around the region, including Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Pakistan, China, and Japan. Two vacancies for SPA ordinary members are available. Interested psychiatrists, please register with Dr Francis Ngui for consideration by 31 Jan 2000.