John Carpenter　教授
英國布里斯托大學，政策研究學院社會工作及應用社會科學系教授

Professor John Carpenter is a registered social worker, chartered psychologist and family therapist. He joined the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol as Chair of Social Work and Applied Social Science in 2005. He was Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Social and Community Studies at Durham University (1997-2005) and Senior Lecturer in the Applied Psychology of Mental Health at Kent University (1988-96). He previously worked at Bristol as Lecturer in the Departments of Social Work and Mental Health 1979-87. In 1999 he was elected as one of the founding Academicians of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK. Over the last twelve years he has carried out research for the English Department of Health on the de-institutionalisation of long stay mental hospitals, community mental health teams, assertive outreach and crisis intervention teams and custody diversion for for violent mentally disordered offenders. He has also evaluated the training of mental health professionals in psychosocial interventions.

Larry Davidson 博士
美國耶魯大學，醫學學院精神醫學系心理學系教授

Professor Davidson is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale, and also serves as the Senior Clinical Officer and Mental Health Policy Director for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
His training, research, and policy interests focus on the interface of recovery in psychiatric and substance use disorders with membership in society. He has investigated processes of recovery in psychosis, using peer support and other social engagement strategies in engaging people with co-occurring disorders and/or who are homeless into care, the development of qualitative and participatory research methods, the development and evaluation of innovative, community-based psychosocial interventions, and the promotion of collaborative relationships between people with behavioral health disorders and their healthcare providers. Much of this work has been oriented toward articulating a disability and civil rights perspective on psychiatric disorders, attempting to create an array of pathways into community life for people with psychiatric disabilities. Throughout this work, Professor and his colleagues have attempted to identify and redress social, political, and economic disparities as they relate to healthcare, opportunities for recovery, and the participation of persons with disabilities in the activities, and communities, of their choice.

資料來源: “Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health”.

陳友凱教授
香港大學精神醫學系教授

Professor Eric Chen is Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Director of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Center for Suicide Research and Prevention in The University of Hong Kong. His researches focus on neurocognitive functions in schizophrenia and outcome in early psychosis, and suicide studies. He is one of the leading experts in developing the early intervention for psychosis program, EASY and coordinating the development of the Asian Network for Early Psychosis (ANEP). Dr. Chen has published extensively in many international journals. He has been acting as a reviewer for journals such as Biological Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine etc. Dr. Chen has hold Visiting Professorship and Research Fellowships at Harvard Medical School and is co-leading a Harvard international collaborative study on pathway to care in psychosis. He is currently Vice-President of the International Early Psychosis Association and has been serving on the Editorial Board for Schizophrenia Research.
資料來源: “3rd Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association for Suicide Prevention"

黃富強博士
墨爾本大學健康科學學院社會工作學校副教授

文化與精神健康的關係是黃富強博士最感興趣的研究範圍，曾發表多篇有關中國文化觀念對精神病的觀感及處理的學術論文。黃博士也是一位具認可資格的認知治療師，經常從事實踐研究，測試不同的臨床方法如何能按文化的需要應用在中國人的精神健康問題。他近期的著作 “Clinical Case Management for People with Mental Illness”為精神健康社會工作者提供了一個協助精神病人的理論框架及評估與介入方法技巧。

資料來源: “5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health”

嚴俊醫生
中國衛生部疾病預防控制局精神衛生處處長

嚴俊醫生是中國衛生部疾病預防控制局精神衛生處處長。她自2000年開始在中國衛生部從事精神衛生政策和規劃工作，是領導制定《中國精神衛生工作規劃（2002-2010年）》和《全國精神衛生工作體系發展規劃綱要（2008-2015年）》的成員之一，目前參與國家精神衛生立法以及傷害預防控制政策開發。從2006年起，她致力於推動大陸精神衛生服務的醫院社區一體化改革，使基本精神衛生服務在基層能夠獲得並擴大覆蓋範圍，同時通過支持多項培訓專案促進改善國家精神衛生人員能力。嚴俊醫師1987年畢業于華西醫科大學（現為四川大學華西醫學中心），1993在北京協和醫科大學獲公共衛生碩士，曾在慢性病預防控制、免疫、健康促進和健康教育等領域工作。

馬麗莊教授
註冊社工，美國婚姻及家庭治療協會認可治療師及認可督導專業資格

馬麗莊博士一九七九年畢業於香港大學社會工作系。從事醫務社會工作多年。先後在一九八四年和一九九五年在香港大學取得社會科學碩士及博士學位，一九八八年受聘於香港中文大學社會工作系講師，曾任香港中文大學社會科學院副院長(學生事務)，現職社會工作學系教授。馬麗莊是現任香港社工註冊局主席。她擁有美國婚姻及家庭治療協會 (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) 認可治療師及認可督導專業資格。馬教授專長於家庭治療與心理健康相關的研究，近年主力研究家庭治療對厭食症的治療果效。她擔任的公職除了註冊局主席外，也曾出任香港社會工作人員協會香港社會工作期刋總編輯。馬教授於本地及海外發表的著作甚豐，包括近作『打開家鎖：中國家庭治療與厭食症的臨床研究』。

梁佩瑤醫生
沙田醫院老人精神科高級醫生
香港中文大學精神科名譽臨床助理教授
醫管局老人防止自殺計劃統籌

梁佩瑤醫生是沙田醫院老人精神科的高級醫生，亦是香港中文大學精神科的名譽臨床助理教授。梁醫生的工作主要與治療抑鬱症和防止老人自殺有關。由2002至 2005年，她與耆智園協辦由賽馬會慈善基金贊助的「開心長幼齊健康計劃」(Healthy Aging Young and Old Project)，宣傳健康生活和尊敬長者的訊息。在2002年10月至2004年九月，梁醫生擔任由香港賽馬會贊助，在威爾斯設立的「珍愛生命診所」(Life Clinic Project)的統籌者。這計劃由社會福利署、香港老人精神科學會和香港社會服務聯會攜手合作，為探討三層模式 (3-tier model)的社區老人抑鬱和自殺個案轉介和治療的可行性。這實驗性計劃也扶助了醫管局於2002年起開辦的「老人防止自殺計劃及迅治診所」的成立，而至今梁醫生仍負責此服務的中央統籌工作。

楊位爽醫生
東區尤德夫人那打素醫院精神科高級醫生
香港大學精神醫學系名譽臨床助理教授
香港精神科醫學院董事局成員

Dr YEUNG is the Senior Medical Officer of the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong and has worked in the public psychiatric service since 1989. He is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists. He is an Honorary Assistant Clinical Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Hong Kong and a Council Member of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists. He has been actively involved in the development of community and rehabilitation psychiatry of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital. He has served on the advisory boards of different non-government organizations in Hong Kong and has been the Chairman of the Executive Board of Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong since 2006. His main interests are rehabilitation psychiatry, community psychiatry and transcultural psychiatry.

熊思方醫生
葵涌醫院行政總監

熊醫生現任葵涌醫院行政總監及兒童/青少年精神科及油麻地兒童精神科中心顧問醫生。自1979年已致力工作於精神健康服務，現時兼任教育署特殊教育組心理服務及衛生署榮譽顧問、中文大學精神科榮譽副教授及香港精神科醫學院院長。熊醫生在兒童及青少年精神服務有多年經驗，同時亦從事有關香港青少年精神科服務研究。

陳麗雲教授
香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系教授及
香港大學行為健康教研中心總監

陳麗雲教授現為香港大學行為健康教研中心總監及香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系教授。多年來在大學及社區積極提倡生命教育，並動員社工及學生發展綜合性身心靈健康服務模式，如長期病患者的社區復康網絡、喪親哀傷輔導、單親與兒童服務、抑鬱症及癌病患者的介入模式。提倡以「意義為本」的生命教育服務及相關研究，鼓勵以自強不息的抗逆精神面對生命，在國際交流上得到正面的迴響。陳教授於二零零七年獲得思源基金頒授「健康及社會工作學教授席」，以表揚其於社區推動身心靈健康的成就，及支持日後的教研工作。陳教授出版超過30本書籍及發表多於二百份文章關於健康、實踐研究、婦女自強、離婚、癌症、哀傷及舒緩照顧。