GAMIAN-Europe
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GAMIAN-Europe President: Mrs Hilkka Kärkkäinen, Finland
Hilkka is a social worker by profession and she has retired from her job as Social Ombudsman in Sosiaalitaito in 2014. She is also an expert by experience having suffered reactive depression in 2002. She has worked both for the City of Helsinki and the City of Espoo in Child Welfare several years. Hilkka was a Senior Social Worker in Probation and After Care Association in Helsinki for seven years. As an office manager in Espoo Social Services in 1980’s she was also in charge of a Horizon ECHO program for people with mental disorders. She was Executive Director of Finnish Central Association for Mental Health 1998-2002 and has been President and Vice President of Mieli Maasta, which is a patient association for those suffering from depression. She has worked for the City of Järvenpää as a Planner of Regional Mental Health Care. Hilkka was a Board Director of European Federation of Neurologigal Associations (EFNA) 2002-2004 and President of GAMIAN-Europe once before in 1999. She is a Board Director of European Brain Council (EBC), and European Psychiatric Association (EPA).
Presenter of 3 Presentations
Session 3: Roundtable Discussion on the Call for a European Year for Mental Health - moderated by Peter Falkai and Geert Dom
Session Name
Session Type
EPA Forum
Date
Sat, 04.06.2022
Session Time
09:00 - 12:00
Room
Hall A
Presenter
Lecture Time
11:20 - 11:45
Board Meeting
Session Name
Session Type
Committee Meeting
Date
Fri, 03.06.2022
Session Time
13:00 - 15:30
Room
Meeting Room 1
Presenter
- Julian Beezhold (United Kingdom)
- Livia De Picker (Belgium)
- Geert Dom (Belgium)
- Peter Falkai (Germany)
- Andrea Fiorillo (Italy)
- Philip Gorwood (France)
- Cécile Hanon (France)
- Hilkka M. Kärkkäinen (Finland)
- Tamas Kurimay (Hungary)
- Lars Lien (Norway)
- Diego Palao Vidal (Spain)
- Ozge Kilic (Turkey)
- Martina Rojnic Kuzman (Croatia)
- Jerzy Samochowiec (Poland)
- Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany)
- Agata Szulc (Poland)
- Simavi Vahip (Turkey)
- Jan Wise (United Kingdom)
- André Decraene (Belgium)
Lecture Time
13:00 - 17:15
Access to Mental Health Services During a/the Pandemic: A Human Right?
Session Type
Mental Health Policy
Date
Sun, 05.06.2022
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
Room
Hall B
Presenter
Lecture Time
08:17 - 08:34