Confirmed Keynote speakers
Dr Nora Volkow
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institute of Health.
Baltimore, USA
Dr Nady el-Guebaly
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary, Canada Past Medical Director of the Calgary Health Region Addiction Centre and Program
Calgary, Canada
Dr Vladimir Poznyak
Unit Head of Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours (ADA) Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
Pr Louisa Degenhardt
UNSW Scientia Professor, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales | Sydney | NSW 2052 | Australia
Pr Gabriela Fischer
Univ. Prof. Dr. Gabriele Fischer works as psychiatrist & neurologist and is head of the Addiction Clinic at Medical University of Vienna. Austria Dr. Fischer is also an expert on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) of the Council of Europe.
Vienne, Austria
DR Nestor Szerman MD
Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health University Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Chair WPA Section on Dual Disorders President of WADD (World Association on Dual Disorders) Presidente Fundacion Patologia Dual (SEPD)
Madrid, Spain
PR Jallal Toufiq MD
Professor of Psychiatry. Rabat Faculty of Medicine Member of the International Narcotics Control Board / Vienna Director of the Ar-razi University Psychiatric Hospital Director of the Moroccan Observatory on Drugs and Addictions
Salé- Morocco
PR Mehdi Paes
Professor of Psychiatry and addictology. Rabat Vice president of the Moroccan Association of Private Psychiatry
Rabat-Morocco
Pr Sophia Achab
Sophia Achab is psychiatrist, senior lecturer, lead researcher and Head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Mental Health at Faculty of Medicine of Geneva University. She has been part of several TAGs and Panels on public health issues, policy making and capacity building regarding addictive behaviors for WHO, for Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and for other Swiss regional public health entities.She is part of the WHO EURO Mental Health Alliance and of the WHO Global Clinical Practice Network. Her Research line is "Populational and clinical perspectives of addictive behaviors.
Geneva, switzerland
Pr Amine Benyamina
professeur de psychiatrie et d’ addictologie et chef du service de psychiatrie et d'addictologie de l'Hôpital Paul-Brousse (AP-HP) à Paris. Il est le président de la Fédération française d'addictologie.
France
H.E. Hamad AlGhafrI
President-Elect of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM). Member of the Board of the International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR). Chair of Advisory Board, School of Health, and Environmental Studies at Sh. Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University. Dubai, UAE. Member Advisory Board of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences UAE University. Founder and CEO Delmon Health Consultancy & Planning.
Abu Dhabi, UAE.