President’s Message
You are invited to visit our new website!
Recently we have launched our new website. For an international organization that meets only once a year during our annual conference, the website is a very important tool for communicating with our members.
First of all, I would like to thank Dr. Sophia Frangou, Vice-President Governance of the ISBD and Chad Daversa, Executive Director, for all their efforts and enthusiasm in developing this website in close collaboration with Kenes Media and Kenes Association Management.
Compared to the previous website, the new version contains a lot more content via news feed links. There is also information about the upcoming 10th International Conference for Bipolar Disorder, 13-16 June in Miami, as well as links to register for this conference and for the preconference workshops on June 16.
For our members, there is also a closed member zone, with access to the full directory of almost 900 members, including contact details for most. The members zone offers free access to our journal Bipolar Disorders – An International Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, with access to our newsletter, the ISBD Global, as well as our newsletter archive. In addition, there are other benefits for our members, such as a reduced registration fee for our annual conferences and the opportunity to apply for membership in one of our committees or task forces.
We also intend to increase the scientific content of our website for the benefit of our members. At the moment we are lacking in this area, but in the next months we hope to start with several initiatives. Currently, we are thinking of:
• Webinars: electronic lectures by or interviews with an ISBD member on relevant issues for our members;
• The article of the Month: a webinar or discussion on an important recent paper on bipolar disorder. This can be a paper published in our own journal, but it can also be a paper published in another journal.
If you have ideas or suggestions for any aspect of the website, or if you wish to contribute, please send your feedback to Mariya Dobrovinskaya at dobrovinskayam@upmc.edu.
Please visit our new website, and please also consider adding a link to the ISBD website from your institution’s or bipolar organization’s website.
Sincerely,
Willem Nolen, MD, PhD
President of ISBD 2012-2014
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