Depressive Illness: Indigenous Populations, Social Disadvantage, Heart Risk Mechanisms

Friday, 3 September 2010 08:30 - 10:30

Chair Professor Bruce Singh University of MelbourneAustralia
Going to the heart of the matter : What have we learned about the psychosocial determinants of heart disease?
Heart and Mind : Evolving understandings of chronic cardiovascular disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
  • Professor Ernest Hunter, Queensland Govenment, Australia
The Cost of Disadvantage: Exploring the biopsychosocial correlates of cardiovascular risk and disease in Indigenous Australians
  • Dr Alex Brown, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
Controversies in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Depressive Disorders
  • Professor Graham Burrows, The Melbourne Clinic, Australia