17th World Congress Plenary Speakers Biosketches and Abstracts (in progress)

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Naleen ANDRADE, MD Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii "Welcome Address" Tatjana SIVIK, MD, PHD President, ICPM "Welcome Address" and Plenary Presentation "The Role of Psychosomatic Medicine in a Rapidly Changing World" Michael Schwartz, M.D. Case Western Reserve University "We Need a Theory of Psychosomatic Medicine" David SPIEGEL, MD Jack, Lulu and Sam Wilson Professor and Associate Chair Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine, USA "Traumatic Stress and Medical Illness: Lessons from 9/11" Nancy REAME, MSN, PHD The Rhetaigh Graves Dumas Professor of Nursing Michigan University, USA "The Perimenopause Syndrome: 21st Century "Vapors" or Legitimate Disorder" Francis CREED, MD, FRCP Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, United Kingdom "Understanding and Treating Medically Unexplained Symptoms - The Example of Irritable Bowel Syndrome" Bessel A. VAN DER KOLK, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, USA "Self-Regulatory Changes Following Psychological Trauma and the Effects of Successful Treatment" Paul R. MARTIN, MD Professor and Head, School of Psychology University of New England, Australia "The Psychosomatic Conondrum: Should Trigger Factors Be Avoided?" Shigekazu HARUKI, MD Visiting Professor, Kidney Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan "Psychiatrist as Patient: 31 Years on Hemodialysis" Michael MEANY, PHD Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology & Neurosurgery McGill University, Quebec, Canada "The Effects of Maternal Care on the Development of Individual Differences in Endocrine and Behavioral Responses to Stress" Claude CHEMTOB, PHD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, USA "Children: Trauma, Culture, and Public Health" Don R. LIPSITT, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Harvard University Medical School, USA "The Doctor, His (or Her) Patient, and Who (or What) Else. Is the Patient-Doctor Relationship Obsolete?" George CHRISTODOULOU, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Social Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology, Athens University Medical School, Greece "Ethics in Psychosomatic Medicine" Charles C. ENGEL, Jr., MD, MPH Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University Director, Deployment Health Clinical Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center "Unexplained Physical Symptoms in a Post-September 11 World"