
24th ISTSS Annual Meeting Highlights:
Join world leaders in trauma treatment, education, research and prevention. The 24th ISTSS Annual Meeting, themed “Terror and its Aftermath,” will address the many diverse ways in which children and adults, families, communities, responders and societies address different forms of terror.
NETWORK with the experts in the field, ATTEND leading-edge scientific presentations, LEARN from master clinicians and EXPLORE some of the interfaces between basic science, clinical practice and social policy.
Featuring master clinician sessions by John Briere, PhD,
Richard Bryant, PhD, David M. Clark, DPhil, Alicia Lieberman, PhD,
Roger Solomon, PhD, and others.
Keynote Address
M. Cherif Bassiouni, JD, LLB, LLM, SJD – Distinguished Research
Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago;
President, International Human Rights Law Institute;
former Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his work in the field of
international criminal justice and for his contribution to the creation
of the International Criminal Court.
Day-Long Track: Update on DSM-V
Introduced by Katharine A. Phillips, MD – Chair, Anxiety Disorders Work Group DSM-V Task Force, American Psychiatric Association; Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University. Followed by expert presentations from ISTSS on key issues relating to the broad topic of trauma and its place in the next revision of DSM.
Pre-Meeting Institutes will be held on Wednesday Nov.12, 2008
Important Dates:
Online registration available: July 2008
Early registration deadline: October 2, 2008
Hotel room block reservation deadline: October 10, 2008
Registration cancellation deadline: October 2, 2008 ($75 processing fee applies)
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago for this important conference!
The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois USA
For more information visit: www.istss.org |