You will hear leaders and clinicians in the field of Psychogeriatrics address topics related to adapting to the challenges of aging and the innovations and challenges in caring for the Elderly.

	Speaker: Dr. David Conn, MD, BCh, BAO, FRCP Keynote Address: Optimizing Mental Health in the Long Term Setting Concurrent Session: Behaviours and Dementias Dr. David Conn is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. He is the President of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry and Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health. His academic interests include the psychiatric consequences of brain disease in the elderly, nursing home psychiatry and pharmacoepidemiology. He is the co-editor of three textbooks including "Practical Psychiatry in the Long-Term Care Facility: A Handbook for Staff."
	Speaker:Dr. Barry Campbell, MD, FRCP Keynote Address: Dementia: How Many Types Are There? Concurrent Session: The Expanding Role of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Dr. Barry Campbell is Medical Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Geriatric Medicine with the University of Manitoba. Dr. Campbell has served as the Director of the Memory Assessment Clinic; the past Volunteer President, Alzheimer Society of Manitoba; and he currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Campbell's Keynote Address at the 1999 Mindful Care Conference was extremely well received.
	Speaker: Dr. Joel Sadavoy, MD, FRCP Keynote Address: Challenges of Aging Concurrent Session: Depression Dr. Joel Sadavoy is professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, psychiatrist-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, inaugural chairholder of the Sam and Judy Pencer and Family Chair in Applied General Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, chair of the meetings committee and incoming President-Elect of the IPA. He has been active in geriatric psychiatry nationally and internationally as the founding president of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry, a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, a consultant to the Council on Aging of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the IPA Board of Directors. In Toronto, he was a founding member of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and was its head from 1991 to 1993. He founded the academic department of geriatric psychiatry at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and was head of that department from 1979 to 1991. Dr. Sadavoy is widely published. His academic interests have focused on psychotherapeutic treatment of the elderly, personality disorders in old age and service delivery to ethnocultural elders. He continues actively to teach and lecture on these subjects. He is the senior editor of Comprehensive Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry (first, second and third editions) and has contributed to many textbooks on general and geriatric psychiatry. In 1999, Dr. Sadavoy chaired IPA’s Ninth International Congress in Vancouver, where he also was a recipient of a 1999 IPA Field and Service Award. Dr. Sadavoy has served on IPA’s Board of Directors since 1996, and currently serves as President-Elect of IPA. He may be contacted at j.sadavoy@utoronto.ca
	Speaker: Dr. Norma Wylie, MSN Keynote Address: Life Experiences of an Octogenarian Dr. Norma Wylie, Professor Emerita of Surgery and Medical Humanities, Southern Illinois University Medical School, was the first nurse to receive an appointment as full professor with tenure at a U.S. medical school. In recognition of more than 60 years of clinical and academic contributions to nursing and medicine, Brandon University conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Education. Among her many publications on life and loss, she co-authored Sharing the Final Journey and has taught with the World Health Organization in such places as Singapore and Malaysia. She participated in the 1999 Mindful Care Conference while she was the Brandon University's Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor. Norma returned to her Canadian Prairie roots to live in Brandon and at 86 years young remains involved in research and teaching activities.