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Scientific Programme Committee

Scientific Programme Committee (SPC)

The SPC develops the scientific programme...

... for the World Congress on ADHD, which takes place every two years. 

The appointed SPC chairs for the 10th World Congress on ADHD are Prof. Dr. Manfred Gerlach, Prof. Dr. Luis A. Rohde, Prof. Maggie Silbey and Prof. Anita Thapar.

 

Manfred Gerlach
Prof. Dr. Manfred Gerlach
Chair SPC
University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
Luis A. Rohde
Prof. Dr. Luis A. Rohde
Chair SPC
Federal University of Rio Grande du Sul Brazil
Porto Allegre, Brazil
Maggie Sibley
Maggie Sibley, PhD
Chair SPC
University of Washington 
Seattle, USA
Professor Anita Thapar
Prof. Anita Thapar 
Chair SPC
Cardiff University
Cardiff, UK

The WFADHD Board will appoint four Chairs for the Congress and will decide on a theme. At least one of the Co-Chairs must be a Board member. The Co-Chairs form a smaller executive committee (EC) formed by the Presidents and/or their appointed representatives from the following associations – Asian Association of ADHD, CADDRA, LILAPETH, EUNETHYDIS, the Australian Association of ADHD and APSARD.

The EC will nominate members to a large Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) comprised of research and clinical thought leaders in the area of ADHD. When creating the EC and the SPC the Chairs, WFADHD will seek to balance membership by sex and ethnicity.  The Co-Chairs, EC and SPC serve for two years.  

The SPC is invited to make topic suggestions, as well as innovative format presentations for the scientific programme. Each suggestion should include the title, the names of proposed speakers and a brief description of the proposed content. 

Under the leadership of the Co-Chairs, the EC examines the suggestions from the SPC, prepares a draft programme and submits it for final review and approval by the Board of the WFADHD. The Co-Chairs and EC will have periodic virtual meetings to accomplish their goals. 

Through this process, WFADHD seeks to create a current and balanced scientific programme, that allows congress participants not only to increase their professional knowledge and clinical skills, but to offer real perspectives on the current status and future of ADHD research.
 

 

Scientific Programme Committee Members

L. Adler, USA
H. F. Aljoudi, Saudi Arabia
D. Almagor, Canada
K. Antshel, USA
P. Asherson, UK
T. Banaschewski, Germany
M. Bellgrove, Australia
J. Boavida, Portugal
S. Bölte, Sweden
J. Buitelaar, The Netherlands
F. X. Castellanos, USA
A. Childress, USA
D. Coghill, Australia
S. Cortese, UK
J. Crosbie, Canada
M. Döpfner, Germany
A. E. Doyle, USA
D. Fair, USA
S. Faraone, USA
B. Franke, The Netherlands
S. Shur-Fen Gau, Taiwan, Taiwan
M. Gerlach, Germany
M. Gignac, Canada
D. Goodman, USA

P. Hoekstra, The Netherlands
X. Ke, China
B. Kim, Republic of Korea
S. Kollins, USA 
S. Kooij, The Netherlands 
K.-P. Lesch, Germany 
I. Manor, Israel 
G. Mattingly, USA 
P. Mattos, Brazil 
C. Middeldorp, The Netherlands
A. Miranda, Spain 
T. Miyajima, Japan 
B. Molina, USA 
Z. Morillo de Nieto, Dominican Republic 
A. Mykletun, Norway
J. Newcorn, USA 
J. Nigg, USA 
A. Philipsen, Germany 
G. Polanczyk, Brazil 
D. Quinn, Canada 
J. A. Ramos-Quiroga, Spain 
A. Reif, Germany 
P. Riederer, Germany
L. Rohde, Brazil
 

M. Romanos, Germany
K. Rubia, UK
J. Rucklidge, New Zealand
R. Schachar, Canada
P. Shaw, USA M. Sibley, USA
M. Sibley, USA
T. Silk, Australia 
D. Silva, Australia
M. Solanto, USA
E. Sonuga-Barke, UK
C. Soutullo, Spain
C. B. Surman, USA
M. Stein, USA
J. Swanson, USA
J. Thome, Germany
O. Tucha, Germany
A. Venter, South Africa
S. Walitza, Switzerland
L.-J. Wang, China
J. Waxmonsky, USA
M. Weiss, Canada
T. Wilens, USA
L. Yang, China
Y. Zheng, China

 

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