EPA is pleased to announce the results of the Executive Committee (EC) 2011-2012 election.
The EPA Board elected on 12 March 2011 in Vienna, Austria the following candidates:
- Danuta Wasserman, Sweden  - President Elect
- Silvana Galderisi, Italy  - Advisor
- Philip Gorwood, France - Treasurer
- Marianne Kastrup, Denmark - Secretary General
- Michael Musalek, Austria - Secretary for [...]

EPA is pleased to announce the annual membership subscription for 2011.
The EPA membership fee amounts to 100€, or 145€ in case you wish to receive the paper version of the European Psychiatry Journal.
Should you wish to know more on how to pay your membership fee, please click here.

The winner of the European BMS Prevention Award in Psychiatry 2011 are Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris and Dr. Eva Meisenzahl from University of Munich, Department of Psychiatry, Germany.
The winners are awared for their work “Prediction of psychosis using MRI-based biomarkers” and present an award lecture at the Opening Ceremony of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry [...]

EPA is very pleased to announce that the 1st EPA Academia Summer School on Comorbidity between mental and physical disorders will be organised on 6-10 July 2011 in Nice, France.
The Summer School aims at developing the participants’ ability to recognize comorbidity and will provide theoretical and practical lessons on how to manage patients [...]

EPA awards with € 2,500 early career psychiatrists working in Europe, who have published the best scientific papers in the year 2010.
EPA is pleased to announce and warmly congratulate the winners of the Research Prizes 2011:
1. Clinical psychopathology and refinement of psychiatric diagnostic categories
Dr. Paul ROUX, France
2. Biological correlates and treatments of mental disorders
Dr. Alexandra [...]

The EPA section on Forensic Psychiatry is preparing in collaboration with the Ghent Group and under the auspices of the European Psychiatric Association a pre-congress workshop on forensic psychiatry. The event will be organised at the University Hospital of Vienna, Austria on Saturday 12 March 2011.
For further information, please consult the pre-congress workshop flyer.

EPA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Early Career Psychiatrists (ECP) Scholarship Programme:

Alkomiet HASAN, Germany
Nikolina JOVANOVIC, Croatia
Mario LUCIANO, Italy
Sameer JAUHAR, Scotland
Elena SHMUNK, Russia

The winners receive Congress registration fee exemption to the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry, organised by EPA in Vienna, Austria, from 12-15 March 2011, travel to and from the congress [...]

EPA is pleased to announce the start of Prof. Patrice Boyer’s mandate as the EPA President. Prof. Patrice Boyer (France) takes office on 1 January 2011 for a mandate of two years, succeeding Prof. Hans-Jürgen Möller (Germany).
If you would like to send a comment or welcoming wish to Professor Patrice Boyer, please do so by [...]