Date: Monday, 27 February 2023
Time: 19h00
Topic: Strategies for recovery in schizophrenia
Speaker: Dr John Parker
The February meeting will be addressed by Dr John Parker and will focus on the theme of Strategies for recovery in schizophrenia.
Dr Parker graduated with his medical degree in 1990 and has been registered as a specialist psychiatrist since 2004. At present he is a specialist in General Adult Psychiatry in private practice, and Acting Director of the Spring Foundation at Lentegeur Hospital in Mitchell’s Plain. He has been associated with Lentegeur Hospital since 2003 and has also worked in the United Kingdom, at Valkenberg, and as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at UCT.
His current interests include social psychiatry and the environment, the Spring Foundation and Recovery in Mental Illness, and Mindfulness Based Interventions for Mental Illness. He is a regular surfer and practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation, as well as a keen mountain biker, gardener and traveller.
Please join us on Zoom at 19.00 on Monday 27 February for what promises to be a most interesting presentation! There is no need to RSVP for the meeting, just click on the link below to join.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85939082158?pwd=UGxJelNKdXRDZHZsOWNoeExLW mdMZz09
Meeting ID: 859 3908 2158
Passcode: 088283