OPENING SESSION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2004 at 18:00 Hall A

WELCOME ADDRESSES BY:
A. Riecher-Rössler, President of the Swiss Association of Professors of Psychiatry (3 mins)
F. Ferrero, President of the Organising Committee (5 mins)
N. Sartorius, President of the Scientific Committee (5 mins)
A. Okasha, President WPA (5 mins)
B. Gruson, General Director of the Geneva University Hospitals (5 mins)
A. Hurst, Rector of the Geneva University (5 mins)
B. Saraceno, Director, Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence, World Health Organization (3-5 mins)
P.F. Unger, Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Geneva (5 mins)

MUSICAL INTERLUDE - PERCUSSION GROUP - DUO (5 mins)

OPENING OF THE CONGRESS
M. Maj, President of the Congress and President of the Association of European Psychiatrists (15 mins)

KEYNOTE LECTURES
THE POLITICS OF RESEARCH AND PSYCHIATRY
C. Kleiber, Secretary of State for Science and Research at the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science, Switzerland (30 mins)

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AND PSYCHIATRY OVER THE NEXT DECADE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIETY
Professor Sir M. Rutter, UK (30 mins)

MUSICAL INTERLUDE - PERCUSSION GROUP - QUARTET (10 minutes)
THE OPENING SESSION WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A GET TOGETHER RECEPTION