P. Falkai, Germany

Prof. Falkai has been member of various international and German scientific societies, such as the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS), the Leopoldina Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Collegiate of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogenetik e.V. (DGNG), the Europäische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gerontopsychiatrie (EAG) or the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neuropsychopharmakologie (AGNP). Prof. Falkai is also a reviewer for several scientific journals (i.e., Biol Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, Mol Psychiatry, Am J Psychiatry, Schizophr Bull, Schizophr Res, Transl Psychiat, World J Biol Psychiatry, Lancet) and has published a total number of PubMed publications as of 13.01.2020: 620, his H-index in Web of Science is 69.

Moderator of 7 Sessions

Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
15:00 - 15:30
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EPA TV
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Live TV
Clinical/Therapeutic
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
12:00 - 13:00
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Plenary
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Live
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:00 - 17:30
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EPA TV
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Live TV
Date
Tue, 13.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
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Channel 1
Session Description
Network analysis has allowed a deeper understanding of the relevant links among psychopathological variables and risk factors across diagnoses. Moreover, it provides useful insights about the most central variables in the network, which may inform clinicians about possible therapeutic targets. The symposium will present the most important acquisitions in the field.
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Mental Health Policy
Date
Sun, 11.04.2021
Session Time
15:30 - 17:00
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Channel 2
Session Description
This symposium on mental health policy aims to discuss the use of involuntary treatment in psychiatry in Europe from the stakeholders’ perspective. The issues of involuntary treatment in psychiatry have been the subject of a new round of legal, ethical and clinical discussions both within the professional community and in society since the publication of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities authoritative interpretations. The symposium will present up-to-date data on legal provision of involuntary treatment in Europe, discuss ethical and practical issues and challenges in the use of coercion in psychiatry. An important element of the symposium will be an open discussion on involuntary treatment with a representative of service users and caregivers.
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Live, ECP Session

Presenter of 20 Presentations

LIVE - EPA Forum: Benchmarking Mental Health in Europe: Quality Indicators for Better Services and Care (ID 1109) No Topic Needed

Closing Remarks

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Live
Date
Sat, 10.04.2021
Session Time
09:00 - 11:30
Room
Plenary
Lecture Time
11:29 - 11:30
Presenter
Monday, 12 April: Highlights of the Day (ID 1171) No Topic Needed

Highlights of the Day

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Live TV
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:00 - 17:30
Room
EPA TV
Lecture Time
17:00 - 17:30
LIVE - ECP Debate: Mental Health Care has Radically Changed with the Pandemic (ID 837) No Topic Needed

Live Q&A

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Live, ECP Session, Sessions with Voting
Date
Tue, 13.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
Room
Channel 2
Lecture Time
09:00 - 09:20
Psychopharmacology in Patients with COVID-19 (ID 1138) No Topic Needed

Psychopharmacology in Patients with COVID-19

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Live, Ask the Expert
Date
Tue, 13.04.2021
Session Time
10:30 - 11:30
Room
Ask the Expert A
Lecture Time
10:30 - 11:30
Presenter
Symposium: The Four Views of the Future of Psychiatry (ID 335) No Topic Needed

Live Q&A

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Pre-Recorded with Live Q&A
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
Room
Channel 5
Lecture Time
09:08 - 09:28
LIVE - Opening Ceremony (ID 1176) No Topic Needed

Opening Ceremony

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Live
Date
Sat, 10.04.2021
Session Time
12:00 - 13:00
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Plenary
Lecture Time
12:00 - 13:00
LIVE - Symposium: Network Analysis for Personalisation of Treatment: Understanding Links Among Symptoms, Risk Factors and Functioning (ID 639) No Topic Needed
LIVE - Symposium: East Meets West: How did Psychiatric/Mental Health Services Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic? (ID 1175) No Topic Needed
LIVE - ECP Symposium: Treatment Against Your Will: Views from the Stakeholders (ID 842) No Topic Needed
LIVE - EPA Forum: Benchmarking Mental Health in Europe: Quality Indicators for Better Services and Care (ID 1109) No Topic Needed
Industry Session not Included in the Main Event CME / CPD Credit (ID 1116) No Topic Needed

Finding the light in the night: late stage treatment of schizophrenia

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Pre-Recorded with Live Q&A
Date
Sat, 10.04.2021
Session Time
19:00 - 20:30
Room
Industry 2
Lecture Time
19:55 - 20:20
Presenter
Sunday, 11 April: Midday Roundup (ID 1164) No Topic Needed

Midday Roundup

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Live TV
Date
Sun, 11.04.2021
Session Time
13:00 - 13:30
Room
EPA TV
Lecture Time
13:00 - 13:30
LIVE - Plenary: Empathy and Embodied Self: Neural Underpinnings of Interpersonal Relations (ID 531) No Topic Needed

Live Q&A

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Live
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
12:00 - 13:00
Room
Plenary
Lecture Time
12:40 - 13:00
LIVE - EPA Forum: Benchmarking Mental Health in Europe: Quality Indicators for Better Services and Care (ID 1109) No Topic Needed
Industry Session not Included in the Main Event CME / CPD Credit (ID 1116) No Topic Needed

Live Q&A

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Pre-Recorded with Live Q&A
Date
Sat, 10.04.2021
Session Time
19:00 - 20:30
Room
Industry 2
Lecture Time
20:20 - 20:30
Monday, 12 April: EPA Extras (ID 1168) No Topic Needed

EPA Extras

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Live TV
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
15:00 - 15:30
Room
EPA TV
Lecture Time
15:00 - 15:30
Presenter
LIVE - Debate: Should Schizoaffective Disorder be Diagnosed Cross-Sectionally (ICD-11) instead of Longitudinally (DSM-5)? (ID 537) No Topic Needed

Live Q&A

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Live, Sessions with Voting
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
19:30 - 21:00
Room
Channel 1
Lecture Time
20:40 - 21:00
LIVE - Debate: Should Schizoaffective Disorder be Diagnosed Cross-Sectionally (ICD-11) instead of Longitudinally (DSM-5)? (ID 537) No Topic Needed

D0003 - Pro

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Live, Sessions with Voting
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
19:30 - 21:00
Room
Channel 1
Lecture Time
19:30 - 20:05
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ABSTRACT

Abstract Body

Several changes to the classification of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders have been made to increase the reliability, clinical use and validity of the diagnostic classification which are considered here.

A diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder would only be made in ICD-11 when the definitional requirement of schizophrenia is met concurrently with mood symptoms that meet the definitional requirements of a moderate or severe depressive episode, a manic episode, or a mixed episode. This requirement is more restrictive compared to ICD-10, which just required the presence of symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorder. The total duration requirement would be 4 weeks.

A cross-sectional approach was maintained in the ICD-11 for schizoaffective disorders as there is no evidence on how a longitudinal “lifetime” criterion impacts cross-sectional inter-rater reliability, and the reliability of lifetime symptoms' report by patients and retrospective assessment by clinicians remains unknown.

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LIVE - ECP Debate: Mental Health Care has Radically Changed with the Pandemic (ID 837) No Topic Needed

ECP0023 - Con Perspective

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Live, ECP Session, Sessions with Voting
Date
Tue, 13.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
Room
Channel 2
Lecture Time
08:30 - 09:00
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ABSTRACT

Abstract Body

Psychiatry is facing major challenges during times of a pandemic as illustrated by the current COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges involve its actual and perceived role within the medical system, in particular how psychiatric hospitals can maintain their core mission of attending to the mentally ill while at the same time providing relief to general medicine. Although psychiatric disorders are the top leading causes of global burden of disease, we can witness mental health care being de-emphasized in the wake of the massive onslaught of the pandemic: psychiatric wards are being downsized, clinics closed, psychiatric support systems discontinued etc. in order to make room for emergency care. While nobody can deny the need to act decisively and swiftly and ramp up intensive care readiness, we believe that there is no need to do this at the expense of psychiatric care. Using the pandemic COVID-19 contingency plan developed at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital of LMU Munich as a case in point, we demonstrate how a psychiatric hospital can share in the acute care of a health care system facing an acute and highly infectious pandemic like COVID-19 and at the same time provide for the mentally ill, with or without a COVID-19 infection, and develop mid and long-term plans for coping with the aftermath of the pandemic.

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Symposium: The Four Views of the Future of Psychiatry (ID 335) No Topic Needed

S0134 - From Mid-career Professor to Chairperson: What Remains Similar what is Different?

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
Room
Channel 5
Lecture Time
08:17 - 08:34
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ABSTRACT

Abstract Body

For a Mid-career Professor in Germany, there are defined clinical and teaching responsibilities. One can focus either on one’s research or on clinical work and teaching. When tasks are becoming more demanding or significant overarching decisions need to be taken, there is always a chairperson to be asked or to help delegate tasks.

As chairperson, one is mostly independent from other persons except for the dean of the medical faculty. One is however, at least in Germany, the chairpersons fully responsible for keeping up teaching, patient care, research as well as running the department. The Chairperson is measured by the achievements of these four tasks.

It need special attention to keep up a balanced time schedule to cover clinical care, research, teaching and departmental management.

A good chairs means working together with your staff on long-term goals, developing the department fruitfully and trying to fulfil these goals.

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