CCNP 42nd Annual Meeting
June 12 to 15, 2019
McGill University
Downtown Campus
Montreal, Quebec
Dear Colleagues,
This is a Call for Symposia for the 2019 Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting to be held in downtown Montreal at McGill University’s Thomson House from June 12th to 15th, 2019.
Symposia proposals should include: (1) identification of one or two Chairs, (2) a brief synopsis of the symposium theme, and (3) a list of four confirmed speakers, including institutional affiliations plus tentative titles and brief topic summaries.
Each of the 4 presentations will last 30 minutes which allows for a 20-min presentation and a 10 min discussion period. Symposia should focus on topics that are timely and of broad interest to the CCNP membership.
Symposia participants should be from various institutions to emphasize cross-institutional collaboration and should include women, underrepresented minority and/or early career scientists/clinicians. A strong justification is required for proposals in which all participants are from the same institution or in which participant diversity is not included.
An individual cannot be listed as a presenter on more than 1 submitted proposal. The registration fee for speakers will be waived.
All the proposals need to be sent by email to Rachelle Anderson (rmena@ualberta.ca).
Symposium deadline is October 12th 2018.
A Statement by the CCNP
As an organization that embraces diversity and inclusiveness, the CCNP joins many national and international scientific organizations in supporting the scientists and students victimized by the White House executive order that seeks to ban the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the USA. Thousands of students and colleagues from diverse countries, cultural, and religious backgrounds benefit from highly stimulating education and research environments in North America. Many of them adopt North America to develop highly productive professional or research careers. Others return to their countries and contribute to their development, thus making the world a better and safer place for all. Travel bans hamper these constructive and beneficial scientific exchanges between nations, and can only make our world more divided and dangerous. The CCNP strongly believes that science transcends divisions based on all kinds of stereotypes, and invites the construction of a reality based on facts, and facts alone, for the benefit of humankind. It is a fact that open science, through the free circulation of students, researchers, ideas, data, and discovery, is now a major engine for the advancement of humankind. Any hindrance to such advancement must be vigorously opposed by the scientific community and, hopefully, will be.The CAN and SfN have also released their statements about the immigration executive order on their websites:
Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
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