WPA je globalna psihijatrijska udruga koja predstavlja nacionalna društva s ciljem povećanja znanja i vještina potrebnih za rad u području mentalnog zdravlja.

Tematski WPA-a kongres ”TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS IN A POST-PANDEMIC ERA” će se održati u Tbilisiju, Gruzija, od 14. do 16. listopada 2022. godine.

Georgian Psychiatric Association, članica Zone 9-Central Europe čiji je izabrani predstavnik prof. prim. dr. sc. Igor Filipčić, dr. med., vrlo je prestižna profesionalna organizacija koja radi na različitim područjima mentalnog zdravlja u Gruziji i organizira ovaj kongres.

Kongres će biti usredotočen na važne teme, a teme obrađene na kongresu bit će vrlo relevantne za trenutnu praksu mentalnog zdravlja u Gruziji, kao i u regiji. Program održavanja planira uključiti mnoge druge važne teme od interesa koje pokrivaju cjelokupno područje mentalnog zdravlja sa snažnim fokusom na pitanja psihijatrijske prakse.

Prof. prim. dr. sc. Igor Filipčić, dr. med. Predstojnik Klinike za psihijatriju Sveti Ivan i WPA representative of Zone 9 – Central Europe kao pozvani predavač i moderator će zajedno s eminetnim stručnjacima iz svjetske psihijatrije aktivno sudjelovati Kongresu prema rasporedu:

WPA u Tbilisiju sudionicima će pružit priliku za steći nova znanja, nezaboravna iskustva, čuti najnovija otkrića u psihijatriji te upoznati kolege i vodeće stručnjake u tom području iz cijelog svijeta

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Board member for WPA Zone 9 – Central Europe and in WPA Comorbidity section

Prof. Igor Filipčić, MD, PhD specialist psychiatrist and subspecialist in biological and social psychiatry.
In 2022 elected member of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for psychiatry, and in 2021 elected member of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for monitoring the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental health in the post COVID period.
In 2020 was elected for Board member for WPA Zone 9 – Central Europe and in WPA Comorbidity section.
2016 year get the qualification for the use deep transcranial magnetic stimulation “ Certificate of Brainsway deep TMS operator” and in association with Harvard TH Chan, School of Public Health and Institute for Healthcare improvement completed “The International Leadership Development for Physicians Program”. Head of the Reference Center of the Ministry of Health of the Republic Croatia for the treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of psychiatric diseases and comorbidities at the Psychiatry Clinic Sveti Ivan. President of the Croatian Society for Neurostimulation of the Brain at the Croatian Medical Association. Member of the EPA board in the section of TMS and other brain stimulation.
Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine at the University of Zagreb Medical School. Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the Department of Dental Medicine and Health at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek. Head of the University undergraduate study for nursing in Sveta Nedelja and Pregrada Faculty of dental medicine and health at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. Professor of high school of the Zagreb University Health Care Center – head of Department for Psychiatry.
Co-editor in the CURENT OPINION PSYCHIATRY magazine, member of the Editorial Board of the HPD Journal of Social Psychology and Journal of Alcoholism and Psychiatry Research. Founder and President of the Croatian Society for Brain Neurostimulation at Croatian Medical Association.
Representative in the Assembly of the Croatian Medical Chamber in the City of Zagreb, Member of the Committee for Medical Ethics and Deontology of the Croatian Medical Chamber. Member of the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Anthropology and member of the Ethics Committee of the Zagreb University Health Care Center. Leader in several domestic and international projects, and chief investigator in clinical trials.
Member and president number of organizational committees from psychiatric fields. Author and co-author in chapter 13 books and over 100 scientific papers (CC, SCI or SSCI).