Professor John CARPENTER
Professor of Social Work and Applied Social Science, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, U.K.

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.

Professor Larry DAVIDSON, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, U.S.A.

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.

Source: “Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health”.

Professor Eric CHEN
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

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.
Source: “3rd Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association for Suicide Prevention"

Dr. Daniel Fu Keung WONG
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Schools of Health Sciences,
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr Daniel Wong's major area of research interest resolves around issues concerning the relationship between culture and mental health. He has written numerous articles regarding how Chinese cultural values influence the perceptions and management of mental illness. Dr. Wong is also a qualified cognitive therapist and engages in practice research in experimenting and indigenizing different clinical approaches in working with Chinese people with mental health problems. His recent published book, “Clinical Case Management for People with Mental Illness” provides mental health social workers with a theoretical framework and practical assessment and intervention skills in working with people with mental illness.

Source: “5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health”

Dr. Jun YAN
Director of Mental Health Division
Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control
Ministry of Health, China

Dr. Jun Yan is the director of mental health division in Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health China. She is working on mental health policy and planning in China MOH at year of 2000, is one of expert members leading to draft out the Chinese Strategy Plan of Mental Health in 2002-2010 and the National Guidance Plan of Mental Health Working System Development in 2008-2015, is involved in current national mental health legislation as well as injury prevention and control policy developing. From 2006, she is engaged in reforming mental health service combined with community health and rural health service system to provide and to expand primary mental health service at root level in mainland China, is promoting to improve capacity of mental health human resources through supporting training programmes at the country. Dr. Yan was graduated at Western China University of Medical Science (now named Western China Medical Science Centre of Sichuan University) in 1987 and got her MPH at Peking Union Medical College in 1993, had worked in the areas of chronic disease control, immunizations, health promotion and education, etc.

Professor Joyce L. C. MA
- R. S. W., Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, AAMFT
- Chairperson & Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

Professor Ma is a Professor, Department of Social Work, former Associate Dean (Student Affairs), Faculty of Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; she is the registered social worker, Clinical member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). She obtained her B. Sc. Sc. in 1979, M. Soc. Sc. (distinction) in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Ma is the Chairperson of the Social Workers Registration Board, Hong Kong as well as the ex-Chief Editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, Hong Kong Social Workers Association. Her professional and research interests are on mental health with recent focus on eating disorders and family therapy research. She set up the Shengang Family Treatment Centre, Nanshan Hospital, Shenzhen in 2003, the first family treatment centre in Southern China and was appointed as the Consultant Family Therapist there. Prof. Ma has published widely in venues with significant impact and visibility, including Journal of Family Therapy, Family Therapy Journal, Social Work in Mental Health, Health & Social Work.

Dr. Vivian LEUNG
- Senior Medical Officer of Psychogeriatric Team of Shatin Hospital, HKSAR, China
- Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
- Coordinator of the Elderly Suicide Prevention Programme of Hospital Authority, HKSAR, China

Dr. Vivian Leung Pui Yiu, the Senior Medical Officer of the Psychogeriatric Team of Shatin Hospital, is also an Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (MRCPsych, FHKAM Psychiatry, FHKCPsych). Much part of her work involves with combating depression and suicide prevention for the elderly. She partnered with the Jockey Club Centre of Positive Aging, in hosting the “Healthy Aging Young and Old” Project (sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust) to promulgate the message of “Healthy Life Style” and “Respecting Our Senior” in the community from 2002 to 2005. She worked as coordinator in the “Life Clinc Project” funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club from Oct 2002 to September 2004. This pilot project was a joint venture of the Social Welfare Department, the Hong Kong Psychogeriatric Association and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service to test the 3-tier model of early referral and management of depressed and suicidal elderly in the community. This pilot work has helped with the establishment of the Elderly Suicide Prevention Programme (ESPP) of Hospital Authority in 2002 and Dr Leung has been the coordinator for the service since then.

Dr YEUNG Wai-song
- Senior Medical Officer, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, HKSAR, China
- Honorary Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
- Council Member, the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists, HKSAR, China

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.

Dr. HUNG Se Fong
Chief Executive, Kwai Chung Hospital, HKSAR, China

Dr HUNG is the Hospital Chief Executive, Kwai Chung Hospital. He is also the Consultant Psychiatrist of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Team of the Kwai Chung Hospital and Yaumatei Child Psychiatric Centre. He has worked in the Mental Health Services since 1979. He is also the Honorary Consultant of Psychological Services (Special Education), Education Department; the Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist of Department of Health; the Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the President of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists. He is an experienced psychiatrist and has research experiences in child and adolescent mental health.

Professor Cecilia L W CHAN
- Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
- Director, Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

Professor Cecilia L.W. Chan is currently Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, and Director of Centre on Behavioral Health in the University of Hong Kong.

She is editor and author of over 30 books and author of over two hundred articles and book chapters in health, practice research, empowerment, women, cancer, bereavement and palliative care. She used a strength-oriented approach in her work of empowerment of traumatized individuals. Her focus is on growth and transformation through pain and suffering. Her Eastern Body-Mind-Spirit Approach has been widely adopted, local and global. Recently, she has published a new book, “Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit: An Empirically Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment” together with other authors.