The lectures take place from 4-5pm in the small lecture theatre of the Kennedy Tower on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month during semester time. Special lecture series: January - June 2014 All health professionals and scientific staff are encouraged to attend. Stress in early psychosis Speaker is Dr Javier Labad, Early Psychosis Programme, Hospital Universitari Institut Pere Mata, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain. Wednesday 15 January 2014, 4.00pm Wednesday 15 January 2014, 5.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Machine Learning: Concepts and clinical applications Speaker is Dr Orla Doyle, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Wednesday 5 February 2014, 4.00pm Wednesday 5 February 2014, 5.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Danish registers and biobanks as tools in psychiatric genetic research Speaker is Professor Ole Mors, Professor of Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. Wednesday 19 February 2014, 4.00pm Wednesday 19 February 2014, 5.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Methods for comparing an individual patient to a reference sample (without tears) Speaker is Professor John R Crawford, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. Wednesday 5 March 2014, 4.00pm Wednesday 5 March 2014, 5.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Brain structural and functional abnormalities predating the onset of psychosis Speaker is Professor Stefan Borgwardt, Department of Psychiatry, University of Basel, Switzerland. Wednesday 19 March 2014, 4.00pm Wednesday 19 March 2014, 5.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Neuropolitics - title tbc Speaker is Professor Laura Cram, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Wednesday 2 April 2014, 3.00pm Wednesday 2 April 2014, 4.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Code of the Street Speaker is Professor Chris Holligan, University of the West of Scotland. Wednesday 16 April 2014, 3.00pm Wednesday 16 April 2014, 4.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital From nurse to researcher – how did that happen? Speaker is Dr Rosie Stenhouse, Lecturer in Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh Medical School. Wednesday 7 May 2014, 3.00pm Wednesday 7 May 2014, 4.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Title tbc Speaker is Professor Alison Yung, Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester. Wednesday 21 May 2014, 3.00pm Wednesday 21 May 2014, 4.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Forgotten priorities: Global health challenges in Africa Speaker is Dr Liz Grant, Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Development and Deputy Director, Edinburgh International Development Centre Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh. Wednesday 4 June 2014, 3.00pm Wednesday 4 June 2014, 4.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Molecular mechanisms linking brain response to peripheral inflammation Speaker is Dr Jonathan Cavanagh, Reader in Psychiatry, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow. Wednesday 18 June 2014, 3.00pm Wednesday 18 June 2014, 4.00pm Small lecture theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
