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
- Mental Health – Tim van der Grift
- Children & Adolescents – Jiska Ristori
- Endocrinology – Garry Butler
- Social Sciences – Sally Hines
- Voice and Communication – Maria Södersten
- Surgery – Marta Bizic
- Law – Peter Dunne
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
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!