Scientific Program
Keynote Lecture
Urbanization and mental health
Professor Norman Sartorius
President, Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs
WPA President Lecture
Suicide Can Be Prevented:State of the Art in Evidence- Based Suicide Prevention Methods from Public Mental Health and Clinical Perspectives
Danuta Wasserman, MD, PhD
President, World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre
Research, Methods Development, Training in SuicidePrevention, Director
AFPA President Lecture
Asian Mental Health Perspective in the Digital Era
Dr. Andi J. Tanra
AFPA President
AFPA Founding President Lecture
AFPA: How it started, what it achieved and where it will go?
Naotaka Shinfuku, MD, PhD
Kobe University Emeritus
Plenary Lecture
Transience and Disillusionment: Psychoanalysis in Japanese culture
Dr. Osamu Kitayama
Hakuoh University
Plenary Lecture
Biological psychiatric research as a catalyst for global psychiatric collaboration
Professor Thomas G. Schulze
Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG)
Special Lecture
Biomarkers and personalized care in alzheimers ..new hope
Dr. Prasad Rao Gundugurthi
Immediate Past President of AFPA
Schizophrenia & Psychopharmacology Division, Asha Hospital
Special Lecture
GEO-PSYCHIATRY, CLIMATE CHANGE & MENTAL HEALTH: EMERGING NEW DISCIPLINES IN PSYCHIATRY
Dr. Afzal Javed
Past President of WPA
Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre
Special Lecture
WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES
Professor Helen Herrman
Past President of WPA
The University of Melbourne
Special Lecture
TBC
Professor Patrick McGorry
Executive Director, Orygen
Special Lecture
The Bio-Psycho-Social Model of Mental Disorders: Its Current Understanding
Shigenobu Kanba, MD, PhD
Past President of JSPN
Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University
Special Lecture
Integrative Collaboration with WHO Initiatives
Dr. Tsuyoshi Akiyama
Immediate Past President of World Federation for Mental Health
Special Lecture
Perspectives for Navigating the Near-Future Challenges in Psychiatry
Dr. Toshiya Murai
President of JSPN
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
Special Lecture
Modern Type Depression and Urban Context
Umberto Volpe, MD, PhD
Chair, Unit of Clinical Psychiatry
Director, School of Specialization in Psychiatry
Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, School of Medicine
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Special Lecture
Emerging Neuropsychopharmacology based on the link between basic and clinical sciences
Dr. Kazutaka Ikeda
President of CINP
Chair, Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry / Project Leader, Addictive Substance Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Special Lecture
Treatment strategy for OCD/Hoarding Disorder based on recent neuroimaging findings
Tomohiro Nakao, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
Special Lecture
Deepening Schizophrenia Research through AI and Neuroimaging
Dr. Hidehiko Takahashi
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Science Tokyo / Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Brain Integration Research, Institute of Science Tokyo
Special Lecture
Intervention using humanoid robot for individuals with autism spectrum disorders
Dr. Hirokazu Kumazaki
Chair, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nagasaki University, School of Medicine
Special Lecture
The State of Mental Health Services and Psychiatry in Central Asian Countries
Armen Soghoyan, MD, PhD
Honorary Fellow, WPA
President, Armenian Psychiatric Association
Secretary for Scientific Sections, WPA
Chair of the Council, Armenian Medical Association
Head, Psychosocial Recovery Center
Associate Professor, YSMU Department of Psychiatry
Special Lecture
The New Treatments for Depression
Professor Malcolm Hopwood
Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry,University of Melbourne
Special Lecture
Use of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Professor Shih-Ku Lin
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Special Lecture
Lifetime Suicide Attempts and Clinical Correlates in Bipolar Disorder: Findings from an Asian Consortium Study
Professor Kang Sim
Chairman Medical Board Office, Institute of Mental Health
Special Lecture
ICD-11 in Global Psychiatry: Current Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Professor Wolfgang Gaebel
WCAP2026 President Lecture
Hikikomori in the Urban Digital Era: A Psychodynamic, Transdiagnostic Model and Multimodal Interventions
Takahiro A. Kato, MD, PhD
WCAP2026 President,
President-Elect of AFPA
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
