Events

Professor Aleksandar Janca
External Examiner of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists

Dr Aleksandar Janca is the Winthrop Professor of Psychiatry and Head of School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He also works as a Consultant Psychiatrist at Royal Perth Hospital and is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Perth. Dr Janca started his research career in 1987 as a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri. From 1991 to 1997 he worked as a Medical Officer at WHO Headquarters in Geneva and was responsible for coordination of a number of international projects in the areas of psychiatric nosology, psychiatric epidemiology and transcultural psychiatry. Dr Janca has a particular interest in the development and evaluation of novel psychiatric concepts, assessment instruments in psychiatry and Aboriginal mental health. He has published more then 200 scientific papers, book chapters and books.

Professor Sander L. Gilman Distinguished
Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences;
Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. His Obesity: The Biography appeared with Oxford University Press in 2010; his most recent edited volume, Wagner and Cinema (with Jeongwon Joe) was published in that same year. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago and for four years was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine and creator of the Humanities Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 1990-1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; 1996-1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; 2000-2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; 2004-5 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University; 2007 to the present as Professor at the Institute in the Humanities, Birkbeck College; 2010 to the present as a Visiting Research Professor at The University of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000), and an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007).

Prof. Zhenyu Xuan
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas

Prof Michael Qiwei Zhang
Visiting Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry and the Strategic Research Theme on Genomics

Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block,Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road,Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Prof Michael Qiwei Zhang
Visiting Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry and the Strategic Research Theme on Genomics

Seminar Room 3, G/F, Room LG-S3, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Prof. Rui Jiang, Associate Professor
MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Automation, Tsing Hua University

Seminar Room 3, G/F, Room LG-S3, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.