This weekend will see the start of the eagerly awaited 5th Biennial Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) conference, taking place in Florence, Italy. The conference will bring together international researchers from all areas of schizophrenia research to discuss the latest findings from the field. It promises to be an excellent meeting, and two members of the PsyLife group, Dr James Kirkrbide and PhD student Hannah Jongsma, will be presenting some of their findings.
We’re delighted to announce that Hannah has won a prestigious SIRS Young Investigator Travel Award to attend the conference. Congratulations! Hannah is in the second year of her PhD on the role of social and environmental risk factors in schizophrenia and other psychoses. To receive this international award is a major achievement and highlights Hannah’s dedication and growing expertise in the field. Hannah will be presenting her findings on cross-national variation in the incidence of psychotic disorders using data from the EU-GEI study. If you are at the conference, her talk will be on Tuesday 5th April, from 3.15pm, in the session on “Epidemiology: roles for environmental risk factors”. James will be presenting his work on age-at-migration in the same session. Do join us if you can.
See you in Florence!
Ciao!
Full list of PsyLife presentations at SIRS 2016
- Hannah Jongsma: Incidence of psychotic disorders in England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil: Data from the EU-GEI study, Tues 5th April, 4.30pm-4.45pm: Symposium: Epidemiology: roles for environmental risk factors
- James Kirkbride: Age-at-migration and risk of first episode psychosis in England: epidemiological evidence from the SEPEA study, Tues 5th April, 3.45-4pm, Symposium: Epidemiology: roles for environmental risk factors
- James Kirkbride: (Poster S157): The Epidemiology of first episode psychosis in early intervention in Psychosis services: findings from the SEPEA study, Poster session 1, Sunday 3rd April, 11am – 1pm.