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The ICGP is pleased to announce the following award recipients for 2007:
     2008 ICGP Senior Investigator Award:
     Peter H. St. George-Hyslop
     2007 ICGP Junior Investigator Award:
     Carmen Andreescu
     Chan-Seung Chung
     Nicole Kochan
     David Mamo
     Thomas Meeks
     Yan Meng
     Michelle Mielke
     Stephen Thielke
     Hiroyuki Uchida
     Lan Zhang
 
>> ICGP 2008 will be held in Sydney, Australia, September 3 – 6, 2008
The ICGP 8th Annual Meeting will be held in Sydney, Australia.  Perminder Sachdev, M.D., Ph.D. will be the host of the Local Organizing Committee.
 
>> Dr. John O'Brien named ICGP President-Elect for 2008 - 2010
September, 28, 2006 - Dr. John O'Brien was unanimously elected by ICGP Membership as President-Elect for 2008-2010.  Dr. O'Brien is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University in the UK where he works within a muti-disciplinary Institute for Aging and Health. His research interests include the role of vascular factors in dementia and depression, neuroimaging and dementia with Lewy bodies.  He is an Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry in Newcastle, a member of the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Dementia Guidelines Group, an IPA Board Member and Deputy Editor of International Psychogeraitrics. He served as Program Committee co-chair for the 2005 (Pittsburgh) and 2006 (Hiroshima) ICGP conferences and was Scientific Committee Chair of the 2005 IPA Congress in Stockholm.