Morning session (in English) / chairperson: prof. Katarzyna Kucharska
1) 9.30-10.00
Christine Ecker, BSc, MSc, Ph.D.(Germany) Decoding the brain in autism spectrum disorder
2) 10-10.30
Ann Mortimer, Prof., MB ChB, MD, MMedSc(England) Recent advances in therapy of depression using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
3) 10.30-11.00
Dr. Wojciech Greg Gierynski(England) Implementation of DBT & MBT joint model in the management of borderline personality disorder
4) 11.00-11.30
John Wattis, FRCPsych(England) What do we mean by spiritual aspects of psychiatry/psychosomatics?
5) 11.30-12.00
Philip Santangelo, Ph.D.(Germany) Examining the dynamics of symptoms in daily life in patients with borderline personality disorder
6) 12.00-12.30
Peter Jonason, Ph.D.(Italy) Shining Light on the Dark Triad Traits: The Development, Validation, and Utility of the Dirty Dozen Measure
12.30–13.30
Lunch
Afternoon session (in Polish) / chairperson: prof. Jan Cieciuch
7) 13.30-14.00
Piotr Gałecki, Prof., MD, Ph.D.(Poland) Recent advances in management of depression
8) 14.00-14.30
Jan Cieciuch, Ph.D.(Poland) Preparatory steps in psychometry towards implementation of ICD-11 diagnostic criteria in personality disorders in Poland
9) 14.30-15.00
Katarzyna Kucharska, Prof., MD(Poland) In traps of self-destruction in women with anorexia nervosa and borderline personality disorder - neuroimaging data
10) 15.00-15.30
Barbara Remberk, Ph.D, MD(Poland) Clinical challenges in management of mental disorders in children and adolescents
11) 15.30-16.00
Dariusz Włodarek, Ph.D., MD(Poland) Role of microbiome in psychosomatic diseases
16.00-16.00
Closing remarks
16.00-18.00
Posters Presentations
Speakers
Christine Ecker, BSc, MSc, Ph.D.
Heisenberg Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and holds a
visiting appointment at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry, and
Neuroscience, King’s College London. Her primary research program
focusses on the neurodevelopmental underpinnings of autism, and the
development of autism biomarkers. Dr. Ecker first became involved in
autism research in 2006, and since then has been part of several large
European research networks on autism that include the European Autism
Interventions Program (EU-AIMS) and the Longitudinal European Autism
Project (LEAP), where she heads the structural neuroimaging working
group. Dr. Ecker is also Principal Investigator within the Autism
Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials network (AIMS-2-TRIALS), which
brings together 48 partners across 14 European countries to study how
autism develops from preterm to adulthood, and how this varies across
individuals. Within the network, Dr. Ecker is working together with a
multidisciplinary team of experts (genetics, imaging, clinical
research) to link autism to putative mechanisms. Her more recent work
is directed towards examining autism within the general framework of
neurodiversity, and to identify biological mechanisms of resilience in
the developing brain.
Ann M. Mortimer, Prof., MB ChB, MD, MMedSc
Prof. Mortimer studied medicine at the University of Leicester,
including an intercalated B.Sc. She trained in psychiatry in
Yorkshire, becoming a Lecturer with Leeds University and a Member of
the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She developed an interest in
schizophrenia research, which continued into her first Consultant
appointment. As a result, Prof Mortimer was recruited as a senior
lecturer with Professor Steven Hirsch, at Imperial College, London.
She continued to research into many aspects of schizophrenia
neuroscience. Prof Mortimer took up the Foundation Chair in Psychiatry
at the University of Hull in 1996. She attracted over £1million in
grant funding during the first two years. She was elected a Fellow of
the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1999 and awarded the M.D. in
2004. Prof Mortimer became Deputy Chief Examiner and Chairman of the
Standard Setting Panels to the Royal College, and gave Hull a
significant profile in academic psychiatry, publishing extensively,
including two books on schizophrenia. In 2011 Prof Mortimer
transferred her NHS clinical work to NAViGO in NE Lincolnshire,
running early interventions in psychosis and transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS) services. In 2012 she left the University of Hull
with an Emeritus Chair. Research continued, into mood and anxiety
disorder treatment with TMS, uniquely guided by quantitative
electroencephalographic analysis (qEEG). Prof Mortimer and her
colleague Dr Colin Robertson won an NHS innovation prize in mental
health in 2017.
Dr Wojciech Greg Gierynski
Consultant Psychiatrist, the College Tutor, The Honorary Senior
Clinical Lecturer in Hull York Medical School, the United Kingdom. He
is currently working as a: Medical Lead at Sequoia Therapeutic
Community; Consultant Psychiatrist for Mental Health Team; College
Tutor (responsible for the junior doctors and medical students
training). His special interest is in Personality Disorder, trained
in: Mentalisation Based Treatment; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy;
Emotional Freedom Techniques; Life Coaching; Solution Focused Brief
Therapy; Neuro-Linguistic Programming; Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Since
working in England achieved Clinical Excellence Awards – 4 levels in
2009, 2013 and 2018.
John Philip Wattis, FRCPsych
Professor at University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Prof. John
Wattis is a member of the Spirituality and Compassion Special Interest
Group focusing on person-centred holistic care. He is co-editor of
'Spiritually Competent Practice in Health Care' and co-author of
several books including 'Practical Management and Leadership for
Doctors' (2e, 2018) and Practical Psychiatry of Old Age (5e). Most of
the current research he is involved in uses qualitative or mixed
methods approaches.
Philip S. Santangelo, Ph.D
Associate Professor; Doctor of Philosophy in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany -
doctoral thesis (2015): Ambulatory Assessment in Borderline
Personality Disorder: Present state of research and new insights into
symptomatology as it unfolds in daily life. He was a post-doctoral
fellow in the mHealth Lab at KIT, Germany. At present, post doc at the
REPEAT Lab, Syracuse University in USA. He does research in Clinical
Psychology using Ambulatory Assessment in order to examine how
psychopathology unfolds in daily life as well as how psychotherapy
effects patients' behavior in everyday life. He is psychotherapist in
training at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and
Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim in Germany.
He is author and co-author several papers in peer-reviewed journals.
One of their recent publications is 'The temporal interplay of
self-esteem instability and affective instability in borderline
personality disorder patients' everyday lives' (Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 2017) and 'Affective instability across the life span in
Borderline Personality Disorder – A cross-sectional e-diary
study' (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2018).
Peter Jonason, Ph.D.
Professor (Associate) at University of Padova in Italy “I am most
known for my work on the Dark Triad traits (e.g., psychopathy,
narcissism, & Machiavellianism). I have examined a wide array of
variables linked to these traits including creativity, mating, and
values. Currently I am compiling a book on measures of the dark side
of personality. I have also maintained an interest in mating
strategies and mate preferences relying on big data, cross-national
data, and experimental studies”. Author and co-author of numerous
publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Piotr Gałecki, Prof., MD, Ph.D.
Head of Department at Medical University of Łódź, Poland; consultant
psychiatrist, specialist sexologist. National Consultant in
Psychiatry, Chairman of the Mental Health Board, lecturer at the
National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Krakow,
specialist in psychiatry, specialist in sexology, academic teacher,
and practitioner. Chairman of the State Examination Board in the field
of psychiatry and psychosexuality, member of the Committee of
Neurological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of
postgraduate studies at the Medical University of Łódź: "
psychiatry, sexology, forensic psychology". Author and co-author
of textbooks and over 350 publications, among others combining the
issues of psychiatry, psychology, and aspects from the so-called
borderline between law and psychiatry. In his clinical and research
work he strives to understand biological conditions of mental
illnesses, mainly depressive disorders.
Jan Cieciuch, Ph.D
Associate Professor of psychology; the Director of the Institute of Psychology at the Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw and head of the research team Personalitas. His research focuses on the
personality structure, investigated in a “more geometrico” way.
Research team Personalitas applied this way of thinking to several
aspects of personality including personality disorders, wellbeing,
narcissism, identity, values, and many others. By using the “more
geometrico” method, the research team led by Jan Cieciuch developed
several theoretical models that aim at synthesizing and integrating
many other models in various areas of psychology. As examples can
serve Circumplex of Personality Metatraits (Strus, Cieciuch, Rowiński,
2014); Circumplex of Identity Formation Modes (Cieciuch, Topolewska,
2017) or Narcissistic Isolation and Enmity Concept (Rogoza, Cieciuch,
Strus, 2019). Jan Cieciuch published more than 150 papers and about
half of them in journals with Impact Factor that makes him one of the
most cited Polish psychologists last years (more than 6000 citations
according to GoogleScholar).
Katarzyna Kucharska, Prof., MD
Professor of Psychiatry; Consultant Psychiatrist; Master Practitioner for Eating Disorders and Obesity; the Head of the Centre of
Psychosomatics and Health Psychology in the Institute of Psychology,
Cardinal Wyszynski University in Poland. Previous appointments: the
department of psychological medicine, the Institute of Psychiatry in
London -Visiting Research Fellow (British Council, Wellcome
Trust)(2000); the department of psychological medicine in the
Institute of Psychiatry in London; Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral
Research Fellow (2002-2003); Cardiff and Vale NHS Teaching
Trust (September 2004-September 2007) – Consultant
Psychiatrist/Honorary Lecturer in Cardiff Medical School; North East
Lincolnshire NHS Trust (October 2007- August 2014). She was awarded
clinical excellence award respectively in 2010 and 2013 in Hull, the
UK; the department of Neuroses, Personality Disorders, and eating
disorders (NPDED) in Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (IPiN) in
Warsaw, Poland (Sept.2014-Jan 31 2019) - Associate Professor and the
Head of the Department of NPDED. Author and co-author of 6 books, 15
book chapters and numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Barbara Remberk, Ph.D, MD
Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; psychologist;
the chair of the section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Polish
Psychiatrist Association; the head of psychiatric ward for adolescent
patients in the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw.
Author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications in the
field of mental disorders, particularly in schizophrenia, eating
disorders, and autism spectrum disorders.
Dariusz Włodarek, Ph.D., MD
Associate Professor, dietician, Assistant Professor at Department of
Dietetic; Chair of Dietetic; Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences,
Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW in Warsaw. His clinical and
research interest comprises clinical nutrition among patients with
chronic illnesses (such as diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity, cardiac
illnesses) and assessing an influence of diet on healthy population
and sports people. Moreover, he provides nutritional psychoeducation
for adolescents, adults, and elderly. Author and co-author numerous
peer-reviewed publications in field of clinical nutrition and
nutrition among athletes.
