2. Up to 7 million Iranians live outside
Iran, mostly recent immigrants and
representing highly educated,
wealthy and successful
communities.
We believe that the Iranian
Diasporas are a most valuable
resource for both the host country
and Iran, which requires to be better
utilised
In UK? 70 registered at
RCPsych. Perhaps 150+
Iranian psychiatrists?
3. Dr Abbasian visited a number of medical
institutions in Iran 2014-15
IDAP set up in early 2015
inaugural elections September 2015
4. Chair – Dr. Abbas Mohammadinasab
Deputy Chair – Dr. Cyrus Abbasian
Secretary – Dr. Hamid Rahmanian
5. Psychiatrists of Iranian heritage and cultural
connections
promote the development of psychiatry both in
Iran and UK
6. 1. 30 Members with 5 Honorary Members,
2. All Iranian psychiatrists including psychiatric trainees,
3. Medical students interested in psychiatry
4. Psychiatrists from the regions with culturo-linguist
similarities; including Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Tajikistan,
5. Peter Hughes, Hashim Reza, Prof K. Ashkan
7. Logo - tenth century Persian physician Avicenna; who famously
described treatment of clinical lycanthropy and ‘love sickness’.
Motto - poem by thirteen century Persian poet Rumi, loosely
translated to ‘no health without mental health’.
8. In Iran
i. To establish links with relevant psychiatric institutions.
ii. Collaboration with these institutions in term of
research, education, in advisory capacity, long distance
learning/supervision, etc.
iii. Establish links with governmental and NGOs for
disaster relief; e.g. with Red Cross/Crescent and the
Ministry of Health.
iv. Members training and teaching on how to manage
disasters. Training for PTSD.
9. In UK
i. Mentorship for Iranian Psychiatrists.
ii. Establish links with allied mental health professionals
and allied medical disciplines (neurology, neurosurgery,
and neuroscientists)
iii. Encourage other Iranian medical disciplines to establish
Diaspora committees.
iv. Undertake works with charities
v. Bring Iranian psychiatrists over for periods of
observation, training or service provision
10. 32nd Annual Congress of the Iranian Psychiatric Association in
Tehran
▪ Professor Norman Sartorius
▪ Professor Helen Herrman, the President Elect of WPA
▪ Professor Khalid Mufti, Regional Representative of WPA Zone 15
▪ Dr Afzal Javed, the Secretary for Sections of WPA
Meeting with policy makers of an NGO setting up a first
Schizophrenia Day Centre focusing on the recovery approach.
Met with Dr. Velayati, former Foreign Minister and the President
of the Center for Strategic Research
Individually provided advice on
▪ development of Older Adult services
▪ using tools for the diagnosis of autism at the University of Tehran.
11.
12. Lectures on ‘Community Psychiatry’
Workshops on ‘Family Therapy’ and Alcohol
Roozbeh Hospital (University of Tehran)
Imam Hospital, to advice on their inpatient
psychosomatic facility
13.
14.
15. Active on Google Group
4 meetings per year
Plan to return to Iran twice in 2016
Yazd InternationalConference, planned for
2016
Arrange symposiums at Annual Psych
Conference,Tehran for 2016
Bring Iranian psych. trainees over to UK??
