World Congress of Psychiatry

World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP)

The World Congress of Psychiatry is an annual meeting hosted by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) aimed to increase the knowledge and skills necessary for work in the field of mental health.

2024

Lab Director, Roseann Peterson, PhD, presented her work titled: "Empowering Genomic Discovery for Major Depression: A GWAS Workflow Across Ancestries” at the 2024 WCP.

Nadia Saraí Corral-Frías, PhD, presented her poster "Exploring Depression Phenotypes Across Latin American Genomes: An Assessment from the Major Depression Working Group of the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC-MDD) " at the 2024 WCP.

Paola Giusti-Rodríguez, PhD, presented her work on the Latin American Genomics Consortium's mission to advance psychiatric genetics in LATAM with 214,814 samples & innovative pipelines.

Tim Bigdeli, PhD, presented his work titled: "Prevalence & Genetic Epidemiology of Bipolar & Psychosis Spectrum Disorders in Latino U.S. Veterans” at the 2024 WCP.