Keynote Speakers

Professor German Elias Berrios, UK
BA (Oxford); MA (Oxford); D.Phil.Sci (Oxford); MA (Cambridge); MD; FRCPsych, FBPsS; DPM; Doctor in Medicine honoris causa (Heidelberg & San Marcos); FmedSci.

Professor Berrios is Consultant Head of Neuropsychiatry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge; Reader in the Epistemology of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; Chairman, Research and Ethics Committee, University of Cambridge and Cambridge Health District; Fellow, British Psychological Society; Senior Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge; Editor, History of Psychiatry.

Professor Berrios has published 14 books and more than 365 papers and book chapters on matters neuropsychiatric, conceptual and historical.

Dr Jonathan D Chick, UK
MA MPHIL FRCP (Edin) FRC Psych
Director and Psychiatrist, Alcohol Problems Service, Edinburgh UK

Dr Chick has been active in treatment and research in helping people with alcohol problems over 20 years.  He has advised Research and Government agencies in Canada, UK, USA, Brazil and Australia, as well as the World Health Organisation.  In 2004 he was made an Honorary Life Fellow of the Society for the Study of Addiction.

Professor C Robert Cloninger MD, USA

Professor Cloninger is Renard Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.  He is Director of the Center for Well-Being at Washington University.  Professor Cloninger is the author of over 350 articles and 7 books, the latest being "Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being".

Dr Jeremy Holmes, UK

Dr Holmes is a part-time Consultant Psychotherapist in the UK, and visiting Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Exeter. 

Although primarily a clinician, his research interests include the applications of Attachment theory to adult psychotherapy, the treatment of people with Borderline Personality Disorder, creativity in psychotherapy and the arts, and ethical aspects of psychotherapy.  He has published over 100 articles and 13 books, the most recent of which include The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy (Bruner Routledge 2001) and The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (ed. with G Gabbard & J Beck, OUP 2005).

Adjunct Associate Professor Bert Powell,USA
Adjunct Instructor of Counsellor Education B.S., M.A., Co-founder, Circle of Security Project, USA

Bert Powell is one of the co-founders of the Circle of Security Project, an evidenced based early intervention program for at risk parents. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Counseling Psychology at Gonzaga University and an International Advisor to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Attachment and Human Development. He received the 2000 Washington State Child Abuse Prevention Award.

Professor Fiona Stanley, Australia
AC, FAA, FASSA, MSc, MD, FFPHM, FAFPHM, FRACP, FRACOG, Hon DSc

Professor Stanley is the Executive Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; CEO of and Professor, Department of Paediatrics, the University of Western Australia.  Professor Stanley was also Australian of the Year 2003.

Her work has focused on health research and its translation into better health and health care which in turn provides significant social and economic benefits to the community. In 1997 Professor Stanley's research group established the WA Maternal and Child Health Research Data Base (MCHRDB), a unique collection of data on births from the entire state.  It describes trends in maternal and child health and preventive programs (folate for spina bifida prevention; preventive maternal and child health in Aboriginal communities).

Her main areas of research are analytical studies investigating

• the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders particularly the cerebral palsies;
• the causes and lifelong consequences of low birth weight and other pre- and postnatal problems;
• patterns of maternal and child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations;
• strategies to enhance health and wellbeing in populations.