Programme Overview

This page provides you with a quick overview of the EPATH conference programme and all side activities. You can also find all plenary talks for which we received permission to share. Please find here the Book of abstracts (PDF). A programme book can be downloaded here (PDF).

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Thursday 11th April 2019

8:00  start of the Surgeon’s only day

12:30 – 14:00 Opening session of the Conference
Chair: Guy T’Sjoen & Alessandra Fisher

  • Welcome Address – Joz Motmans & Guy T’Sjoen on behalf of the EPATH board
  • Welcome Address – Jiska Ristori, Alessandra Fisher, Francesco Lombardo, & Mario Maggi on behalf of the Host & Local Organizing Committee
  • Key Note Lecture: Sexual Intimacy, Gender Identity and ‘Fraud’ (abstract) – Alex Sharpe (presentation).

14:00 – 14:30 Light Lunch & coffee break

14:30 – 16:30 Parallel Stream Sessions 1 &  Surgeon’s only session

16:30 – 17:30 Poster Session

18:30 – 20:00 Public Plenary Session (open for the general public, free) followed by reception
Chair: Jiska Ristori & Timo Nieder

  • Welcome Address by Guy T’Sjoen & Joz Motmans (EPATH board) & Local Organizing Committee
  • Key Note Lecture: Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing for Trans People – Susannah Cornwall
  • Key note Lecture: Depathologisation: opportunities and challenges – Dinah Bons (strategic director TGEU)
  • Key note Lecture: Becoming myself – Vladimir Luxuria

Friday 12th April 2019

09:00 – 11:00 Plenary session: The Year in Review
Chair: Walter Bouman & Giovanni Castellini

11:00 – 11:30 coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Stream Sessions

13:00 – 14:00 lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Multidisciplinary Workshops I

15:30 – 16:00 coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Multidisciplinary Workshops II

17:45 – 18:45 General Assembly (EPATH members only)

20:00 Dinner party (external location – transport is provided)

Saturday 13th April 2019

09:30 – 10:30 Plenary Session: Transgender Health Care in Europe
Chair: Annelou de Vries & Francesco Lombardo

  • Italy –Alessandra Fisher
  • Ireland – Vanessa Lacey
  • Poland – Bartosz Grabski & Marta Dora

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Parallel Stream Sessions

12:15 – 13:00 Plenary Closing Session (PDF of PowerPoint):

  • poster price announcement: ex eaquo outcome: congrats to:
    • “Integrated fertility counseling of trans women prior to semen cryopreservation within the genderteam” – ILONA VOORN – DE WAREM
    • “HIV and sex work in a large sample of European transgender and non-binary persons – JUDITH VAN SCHUYLENBERGH
  • announcement outcome voting of host EPATH2021: Gothenburg (Sweden) won!