Kalmunai Mental Health Association

Promoting Mental Health in Sri Lanka

 

Seminar for Sharing Experiences

 

Friday 8th October 2010

 

at

 

Sri Lanka Foundation Institute

 

Organised by

 

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • Trauma and Global Health (TGH) Program (People’s Rural Development Association (PRDA) Sri Lanka and McGill University, Canada)
  • Barnet, Enfield and Haringey (BEH) MH Trust, UK

 

Programme

Chair: Dr Jayan Mendis, Director, NIMH

 

Guest of Honour: Dr T.R.C. Ruberu,

Secretary, Ministry of Health & Nutrition

9.00 – 9.10 a.m.

Welcome address

Chamindra Weerackody, Project Lead, Trauma & Global Health Programme

9.10 – 9.25 a.m.

Searching for the evidence: emerging dilemmas in humanitarian interventions

Dr Duncan Pedersen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, and Scientific Director of the Montreal-based WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health

9.25 – 9.40 a.m.

Improving institutional care (Policy / organisation of services); interdisciplinary working

Mr Oliver Treacy, Director of Crisis & Emergency Services and Dementia & Cognitive Impairment Services in the BEH Mental Health NHS Trust

9.40 – 9.55 a.m.

Rebuilding traumatized communities in Sri Lanka

Dr S. Sivayokan, Consultant Psychiatrist, Jaffna Base Hospital

9.55 – 10.05 a.m.

Building services in the East

Dr Judy Ramesh Jeyakumar, Medical Officer in charge of mental health services, Base Hospital, Kalmunai

10.05 – 10.20 a.m.

Changes at Mental Hospital, Angoda and developing community care

Dr Jayan Mendis, Director, National Institute of Mental Health

10.20 -10.40 a.m.

Open Forum: Questions & Answers

10.40 – 11.00 a.m.

Tea

11.00 – 11.15 a.m.

Special needs of children; effects of trauma

Dr Jaswant Guzder, Associate Professor at Department of Psychiatry and Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal and Head of Child Psychiatry and Director of Childhood Disorders Day Hospital at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal

11.15 – 11.45 a.m.

Community care

Dr Imelda Duignan, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Lead in the Adult Psychosis Service and Ms. Lynne Parry, Nurse Specialist, BEH MH NHS Trust, UK

 

Mr Jim Symington, Deputy Director of the National Mental Health Development Unit supported by (UK) Department of health and National Health Service

11.45 – 12.15

Relevance to Sri Lanka; how to develop mental health services further

Dr Suman Fernando Consultant to TGH Program

Dr M. Ganesan Consultant Psychiatrist, NIMH

12.15 – 1.15 p.m.

Discussion

1.15 – 3.00 p.m.

Lunch & informal networking