The webinars :

We are excited to launch a series of events for continuing professional development in women's mental health for psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees across Europe !

The events are run by Mehlowa. This is a new not-for profit company with charitable aims and is chaired by a psychiatrist specialised in general adult and perinatal psychiatry. Its programme will benefit from an advisory board of eminent clinical scientists and clinicians.

We would like to cordially welcome you to our first webinar which is held under the patronage of the European Psychiatric Association.

The presentation :

The transition into the menopause is a physiological process but some women suffer from vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbances, sexual problems, cognitive decline, and depressive or even psychotic symptoms.

This is mainly attributed to the fluctuations and final loss of oestrogen activity. But for women this phase of life is also often burdened with numerous psychosocial stressors, role changes, losses, and the experience of aging. This has many implications for clinical practice and for research.

The presentation will address the following key questions :

• What kind of mental symptoms and disorders show an increased incidence around the menopause?
• And is this increase just due to the hormones?
• How should we take into account the menopausal transition in the management of our psychiatric patients?

Chair:

Dr Angelika Wieck, Consultant Psychiatrist, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust & University of Manchester, UK

Biography

Anita Riecher-Rössler is Professora emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has specialized in psychiatry, psychotherapy/psychoanalysis, consultation/liaison psychiatry and geronto-psychiatry. In 1998, she was the first woman to be appointed to a full chair for psychiatry in a German-speaking country.

Her research interests include schizophrenic psychoses, gender differences in mental disorders, and mental disorders in women.

She was a founding member/president of several interdisciplinary societies for women’s mental health. In 2018 she was awarded the Pascal-Boyle Prize by the European Psychiatric Association for outstanding achievements by a woman in working to improve Mental Health Care in Europe. According to Web of Science 2020 she belongs to the most highly cited researchers of the world.

Details:

• Online event
• Duration : 1 hour
• Presentation followed by questions (written) and answers
• Streaming on Zoom
• Joining links will be sent to registered delegates by email

Registration:

• All online
• Fees : 10 British pounds (about 12 Euros) plus a small fee for event costs and currency conversion (if required) by Eventbrite
• Payments by credit card