Show Notes
Welcome to a new episode of the BAP podcast. The British Association for Psychopharmacology are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2024. We'll be joining them in Birmingham for their annual summer meeting, which takes place from the 21st to the 24th of July.
This episode of the podcast features three people who've been involved with BAP for many years:
Anne Lingford-Hughes, Professor of Addiction Biology & Head of the Division of Psychiatry at Imperial College London, Belinda Lennox Professor of Psychiatry, Head of the University Department of Psychiatry in Oxford, and Bill Deakin, Emeritus Professor at the Division of Neuroscience at Manchester University, and also Past President of the BAP.
Along with Allan Young, this group of incredibly knowledgable and experienced academic clinicians have been invited to run the closing session of the conference this year, entitled: the past and future of the BAP.
Find out more about the BAP Summer Meeting and get your ticket now at: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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