The effects of COVID-19 on patients with severe mental illness – 26 January 2023

The webinar focused on the changes in psychiatry due to the COVID-19 pandemic and what that means for the future of the specialty. The webinar was moderated by Dr Adrian James, RCPsych President, with speakers including:

• Dr Livia De Picker, Psychiatrist and Postdoc at the University of Antwerp and the President-elect of the Belgian College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry.

• Dr Marisa Casanova Dias, President of the UEMS Psychiatry Section, Research Fellow and Consultant Psychiatrist at Cardiff University.

• Hilkka Kärkkäinen, past-President of the Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks-Europe.

• Professor Brenda Penninx, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam, UMC.

• Professor Norman Sartorius, former director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Division of Mental Health, and a former President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association.