Conference Programme

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Pre-Conference Workshop


17th May 2017 Pre-Conference Workshop I
09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-13:00 Sexual Addiction and Paraphilic Disorders: What Clinicians Need To Know To Improve Diagnosis And Treatment

Dr. Martin P. Kafka, MD
Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30 Sexual Addiction and Paraphilic Disorders: What Clinicians Need To Know To Improve Diagnosis And Treatment

Dr. Martin P. Kafka, MD
Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Main Conference


18th May 2017 Main Conference Day 1
08:30-09:15 Registration & Morning Coffee
09:15-10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:00-10:20 Keynote Speech I (Video Conference)

Live Dialogue with Dr. Howard Shaffer
10:20-11:10 Keynote Speech II
The Syndrome Model of Addiction: Updated Evidence and Implications

Dr. Heather Gray
Associate Director of Academic Affairs, Division on Addiction
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
11:10-11:25 Tea Break
11:25-13:15 Film Screening:"Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age"

Presented by Dr.Delaney Ruston
Assistant Professor and Filmmaker-in-Residence
Stony Brook Medicine

Follow-up Speech by Dr.Thomas Chung
Consultant Community Medicine, Student Health Service
Department of Health, The Government of HKSAR
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Concurrent session:
Topic 1: Research development in clinical practice
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Topic 2: Technology & addiction
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Topic 3: Prevention
16:00-16:30 Tea Break
16:30-17:30 Concurrent session:
Topic 4: Treatment on addiction
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Topic 5: Treating addiction using alternative means
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Topic 6: Co-morbidity
19th May 2017 Main Conference Day 2
9:30-10:45 Plenary Presentation I
The Internet and Sexual Addiction

Dr. Martin P. Kafka, MD
Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
10:45-11:15 Tea Break
11:15-12:30 Plenary Presentation II
An unlikely path to reining in your brain and profession

Ms.Cynthia Moreno Tuohy
Executive Director
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
12:30-12:45 Closing

Post-Conference Workshop


19th May 2017 Post-Conference Workshop
14:00-14:30 Registration
14:30-17:30 Laws and Addiction

Mr. Kevin Leung
Associate
ONC Lawyers