The second meeting of the Organizing Committee for the preparation of the II Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the Needs of the XXI Century took place on Wednesday, June 7. The meeting was headed by Igor Kagramanyan, the First Deputy Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee.

The meeting was attended by Zurab Kekelidze, General Director of V. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology, the Chief Psychiatrist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; Dmitry Markov, Minister of Health of the Moscow Region; Nikolay Govorin, Deputy Chairman of the State   Duma   Committee  on  Health Care; Sergey Soloviev, film director; Natalia Treushnikova, President of the Union for Mental Health; Tatiana Klyushnik, Director of the Scientific Center for Mental Health; Peter Morozov, Vice-President of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists; Viktor Makarov, President of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League; Igor Shpitsberg, Director of the Rehabilitation Center for People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders “Our Sunny World”; and representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation.

The participants discussed the workplan, the scientific program, and the membership of the management bodies including the Russian and International Organizing Committees, and the Scientific Committee.

The II Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the Needs of the XXI Century will be held on October 19-21, 2018 in Moscow. Registration of participants will open on July 1, 2017.

For more information about the Congress, program of events and conditions for participation, please visit the official website of the event: www.mental-health-congress.ru.