2018 Organizing Committee
Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD, Conference Chair* – Commonwealth Research Center (CRC); Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC); Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Kristen A. Woodberry, MSW, PhD, Conference Co-chair – CRC, BIDMC, MMHC, HMS
Jean Addington, PhD – IEPA North America – University of Calgary
Peter Jones, MD, IEPA President – University of Cambridge
Patrick McGorry, MD, IEPA Treasurer – Orygen Youth Mental Health
Deborah Mitchell, Secretariat – IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health
Masafumi Mizuno, MD, Immediate Past President – Toho University
Helen Osman, Digitial Services Coordinator – IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health
Renée Smith, CMP, Conference Organizer – RSVP Events
Lucia Valmaggia, IEPA President Elect – Kings College London
*Larry Seidman, PhD, Original Conference Chair – CRC, BIDMC, MMHC, HMS
2018 Local Organizing Committee
Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD, Chair – CRC, BIDMC, MMHC, HMS
Kristen Woodberry, MSW, PhD, Co-chair – CRC, MMHC, BIDMC, HMS
Lynda Cutrell, MBA, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Lynn DeLisi, MD – Veterans Administration
Oliver Freundenreich, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
Michelle Friedman-Yakoobian, PhD – CRC, BIDMC, MMHC, HMS
Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital
Margaret Guyer, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
Daphne Holt, MD PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
Emily Kline, PhD – CRC, BIDMC, MMHC, HMS
Raquelle Mesholam-Gately, PhD – CRC, BIDMC, MMHC, HMS
Kim Mueser, PhD – Boston University
Dost Öngür, MD PhD – McLean Hospital
Michelle West – CRC, MMHC, BIDMC, HMS
2018 Scientific Committee
Jean Addington, PhD, Chair – University of Calgary
Paul Amminger, MD – University of Calgary
Katherine Boydell, MHSc, PhD – Black Dog Institute
Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan, MS, PhD – Federal University of São Paulo
Rory Byrne, PhD – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Mary Cannon, MD – Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Andrew Chanen, MD – Orygen Youth Mental Health; The University of Melbourne
Eric Chen, MD PhD – The University of Hong Kong
Young Chul Chung, MD PhD – Chonbuk National University
Christopher Correll, MD – Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Jonathan (Jon) Delman, PhD, JD – University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jean Frazier, MD – University of Massachusetts Medical School
Ian Hickie, MD – The University of Sydney
Nev Jones, PhD – Felton Institute, San Francisco
Peter Jones, MD FRCPsych – University of Cambridge
Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD – Harvard Medical School
Golam Khandaker, MBBS, MPhil, MRCPsych, PhD – University of Cambridge
Tania Lecomte, PhD – Université de Montréal
Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD – McLean Hospital
Mizuno Masafumi, MD – Toho University
Kazunori Matsumoto, MD PhD – Tohoku University
Kim Mueser, PhD – Boston University
Inez Myin-Gerneys, PhD – Maastricht University
Merete Nordentoft, MD – University of Copenhagen
Danijela Piskulic, PhD – University of Calgary
Frauke Schultze-Lutter, PhD – Universität Bern
Jan Scott, MD – Newcastle University
Jai Shah, MD – Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University
Michio Suzuki, MD PhD – University of Toyama
John Torousm MD – Harvard Medical School
Lucia Valmaggia, PhD – King’s College of London
Alison Yung, MD – The University of Manchester
Stan Zammitt, PhD, MB, MA – Cardiff University