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On behalf of the Danubian Psychiatric Association, it is our pleasure to invite you most cordially to take part at the 24th Danube Congress of Psychiatry in Zagreb, May 5-8, 2010.
The congress has a long-standing tradition in fostering the contacts between psychiatrists, psychologists,
neuroscientists and mental health experts from Western, Central and Eastern Europe. So far the congress had been held in Vienna (1964), Smolenice (1966), Vienna (1968), Budapest (1970), Russe (1972), Belgrade (1974), Vienna (1976), Bratislava (1978), Budapest (1980), Magdeburg (1982), Sofi a (1984), Sombor (1986), Bad Ischl (1988), Budapest (1990), Regensburg (1992), Prague (1994), Temisoara (1996), Zagreb (1998), Linz (2000), Bratislava (2002), Portoroz (2004), Varna (2006), and Mostar (2008).
The topic of the 24th Danube Congress of Psychiatry is:
THE STRATEGY OF ROLLING HORIZONS: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN PSYCHIATRY
with main themes
1. Comorbidity, Multimorbidity and Psychosomatic Medicine: Current Perspectives and Challenges
2. New Trends in Contemporary Psychiatry: Challenges, Dilemmas and Controversies
Contemporary medicine, as well as psychiatry, is in the process of a paradigm shift. Instead of relatively broad pathological diagnoses, population-based risk assessments, and nonspecific „one-size-fi ts-all therapies“, we are moving to an individualized and personalized medicine. The concept of personalized medicine is based on hypothesis that each patient is unique human being with unique genotype and phenotype, personal and family hystory, life story and script, one or more comorbid diseases, specifi c nutritional habits and specific preferences in medication taking not always in concordance with recommended ones. The issue of comorbidity and multimorbidity highlights the intricacy of personalized medicine. This topic is strongly associated with a lot of conceptual, epistemiological and treatment
challenges, dilemmas and controversies.
This Danube Congress of Psychiatry should be a great opportunity for exchanging ideas, experience and research fi ndings within a framework of personalized and integrative medicine. To complement the scientifi c program, the participants will have ample opportunities to enjoy specifi c historical and natural beauties and well known hospitality of Zagreb and Croatia. We sincerely hope that the 24th Danube Congress of Psychiatry will be a memorable and rewarding experience to everybody.
| Prof. dr. Miro Jakovljević | Prof. dr. Norman Sartorius | Ass. prof. dr. Werner Schoeny |
| President | President | President |
| Organizing Committee | Scientific Committee | Danubian Psychiatric Association |