Leo Sher, M.D.

Prof. Joav Merrick has informed me that he is organizing the First International Congress on Child Health and Human Development. Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc is Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Persons with Intellectual Disability, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, and Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel. He is also Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky, USA, and a Distinguished Guest of our website, “www.internetandpsychiatry.com” (please, see the “Distinguished Guests” section of our web site).

The Congress will be held in Jerusalem on December 2-5, 2012.

Topics of the Congress:

• Disability over the lifespan (all ages and also premature aging)

• Chronic disease over the lifespan

• Violence, abuse and maltreatment

• Suicide

• Integrative medicine, children and adults

• ADHD

• Obesity

• Eating disorders

• Positive youth development

• Pain over the lifespan

• Autism

• Child rural health

• Child and adolescent health

• Climate change

• Poverty

• Sports medicine

• Mind-body

• International public health issues and health informatics

• Women’s health

• Environmental health

• Psychological issues

• Evidence based social work

• Substance abuse

• Rehabilitation

• Service, care, policy and transition