29-30 March 2011 - EVENT - No Mind Left Behind - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

An international conference on autism, ADHD and other early onset neurodevelopmental disorders

Over 50 experts from around the world will gather to debate the issues and argue the case for concern.

Confirmed speakers include:

Jackie Baillie, MSP, Scottish Pariament, Shadow Cabinet Secretary
for Health & Wellbeing

Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology,
Director of Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University 
‘The social brain and fetal testosterone’

Margaret Bauman, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard
Medical School, US  ‘Neuroanatomy of autism’

Ina van Berckelaer-Onnes, PhD, Professor Clinical Child and
Adolescent Studies Leiden University, Holland ‘The autism spectrum:
one, five or hundreds of conditions?’

Eva Billstedt, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden  ‘Outcome of autism
spectrum disorders and ADHD’

Thomas Bourgeron, PhD, Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions,
Institut Pasteur, Paris  ‘Genetics of autism’

G Bryce, MD, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, UK

Jan Buitelaar, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Center,
Nijmegen, Holland  ‘Psychopharmacology in early onset
neuropsychiatric disorders’

David Coghill, MD, Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
University of Dundee, Scotland  ‘Intervention in ADHD’

Mary Coleman, MD, President and Medical Director, Foundation
for Autism Research, New York, USA  ‘The autisms, the ADHD’s and
medical syndromes’

Bill Colley, Teacher, Educational Consultant  ‘Mind the Gap: Building
bridges, safety nets and infinite possibilities for Johnny ‘No-friends’

Sophie Dow, Founder of Mindroom and mother of Annie 19,
the inspiration behind Mindroom

Rob Doyle, MA, DDS, MD, Clinical Associate in Psychiatry.
Division of Paediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts 
General Hospital, Boston, US  ‘Psychopharmacology in early 
onset neuropsychiatric disorders’

Elias Eriksson, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychopharmacology,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden  ‘Neurotransmitter control
of cognition, attention and empathy’

Elisabeth Fernell, MD, PhD, Neuropaediatrician, Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden  ’Early diagnosis of autism’   

David FitzPatrick, MD, Honorary Consultant and Professor in Clinical
Genetics, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh ‘Annie’s syndrome’

Mohammad Ghazuiddin, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US
‘Affective and anxiety disorders in autism and ADHD’

Christopher Gillberg, MD, PhD, Professor of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, University of Gothenburg, Institute of Child Health,
London and University of Glasgow, Sweden and UK ‘ESSENCE – 
Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical
Examinations’

Loretta Giorcelli, OAM, Dr and Specialist Educational Consultant
Sydney, Australia  ‘That’s not the Annie I know’ – teacher perception 
vs parental perception

Sam Goldstein, PhD, Affiliate Research Professor of Psychology at
George Mason University, Virginia and Assistant Clinical Professor 
at University of Utah, US  ‘Intervention in ADHD’

Michael Gordon, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Chief Clinical Child
Psychologist, State University of New York  ‘Dismantling silos’

Randi Hagerman, MD, Medical Director of the M.I.N.D Institute,
Sacramento, US  ‘Fragile X problem with timing and coffee’

Francesca Happe, PhD,Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, MRC Social,
Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College, London
“Central coherence: to see or not to see the bigger picture”

Torey Hayden, Author and special education teacher and best selling
author, US and Scotland
Agneta Hellström, Director, ADHD Centre Stockholm, Sweden
‘A collaborative approach to intervention in families with ADHD’

Pat Howlin, PhD, Professor of Clinical Child Psychology, Institute of
Psychiatry, London ‘The evidence base for intervention in autism’

Paul Hutchins, MD, Senior Staff Physician Child Development Unit,
Senior Paediatric Consultant, Children’s Hospital Education Research
Hospital, Westmead, Australia  ‘Creativity, chaos and confusion – 
collaborative support for learning and organisational problems in gifted children’

Martin Ingvar, MD, PhD Professor of Integrative Medicine, Osher Center for
Integrative Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Development of cognition, language and reading’

Marion Leboyer, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Genetic Team, INSERM,
University of Paris and FondaMental, Paris, France  ‘Genetics of autism’

Astri Lundevold, PhD,Professor in Neuropsychology, University of Bergen, Norway 
“Diagnosing cognitive attentional and social problems in school age’

Lotta Löfgren-Mårtenson, Associate Professor in Health and Society, sexological alignment,
Malmö University, Sweden ‘May I? Sexuality and love and young people with intellectual disabilities’

Ann Maxwell, Founder Muir Maxwell Trust, Edinburgh, UK ‘Epilepsy Plus’
 
Pierre Magistretti, MD, PhD, Professor, Director, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland ‘Synaptic Plasticity – The Everchanging Brain’

Anne McGuire, MP for Stirling, former Minister for Disabled People,
Scotland ‘What’s in five short years?’ The Government’s 2025 Vision 
vs the Mindroom 2020 Vision

Carmela Miniscalco, PhD, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology,
Div of Speech and Language Pathology, Gothenburg, Sweden 
‘Early diagnosis of autism’

Helen Minnis, MD, PhD, Senior Lecturer Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, University of Glasgow, UK ‘Reactive attachment disorder:
fact and fiction’

Brian Neville, MD, Emeritus Professor of Child Neurology, University
College, London, UK ‘The Social Brain, Autism and Epilepsy’

Agneta Nyden, MSc, PhD, Assoc Professor of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, ‘Development of attention and executive function’

Lena Nylander, MD, psychiatrist, Lund University Hospital, Sweden
‘Autism spectrum disorders in the elderly: a clinicians view’

Anne O’Hare, Honorary Professor, Child Life & Health, University of
Edinburgh, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Hospital for Sick Children,
Edinburgh ‘How do we measure empathy in young children?’

Christine Puckering, University of Glasgow, UK ‘Triple P – Mellow
parenting: what are they good for?’

Maria Råstam, Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences,
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lund University, Sweden 
‘Outcome of eating disorders: relation to ESSENCE’ 

Patricia Rodier, PhD, Professor of OB/GYN, University of Rochester, US
‘Where in the brain is autism?’

Matt Sanders, Professor of clinical psychology, Parenting and Family
Support Centre, University of Queensland, AUS ‘Triple P – Mellow
parenting: what are they good for?’

Pelle Sandstrak, Former funeral director and stand up comedian,
now eminent lecturer on living with Tourette’s syndrome, his book 
‘Mr Tourette and I’ is being made into a film. Norway/Sweden

Jenny Talbot, Prison Reform Trust, London UK

Eric Taylor, MD, Professor Emeritus of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, King’s College, UK ‘Genetics of ADHD’

Lucy Thompson, PhD, Senior Public Health Researcher Public Health
Resource Unit NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, UK
‘Pre- and perinatal factors in ESSENCE’

Per-Hove Thomsen, MD, Dr Med Sci, Professor in Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, Research Director Aarhus University Hospital,
Denmark ‘The Tic-OCD spectrum: one, two or more?’

Jeremy Turk, MD, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry &
Consultant Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist, Southwark Child 
& Adolescent Mental Health Developmental Neuropsychiatry Service
South London & Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust 
‘Fragile X problem with timing and coffee’

Phil Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Infant Mental Health, University
of Glasgow, UK Title TBA

Lorna Wing, MD, FRCPsych, OBE UK
‘Social instinct; the crux of the matter of autism’

Charles H. Zeanah, M.D. Sellars Polchow Professor, Tulane University
School of Medicine New Orleans, US  ‘Maltreatment and fostering’

For general information and details of the programme and registration, please visit the Mindroom website here http://www.mindroom.org/no-mind-left-behind-2011/general-information/