Talks and Presentations CAN-SG Conference

23 March 2024

Conference Centre, 30 Euston Square, London

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Louise Irvine, CAN-SG co-chair introduced Baroness Dianne Hayter who gave the conference welcoming speech

Baroness Dianne Hayter gives welcoming speech to CAN-SG conference March 2024
Dr Louise Irvine introducing CAN-SG conference March 2024

Keynote speaker: Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala

Chief of Adolescent Psychiatry, Tampere University Hospital, Finland.

Safe evidence based care

Professor Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Susan Bewley, Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Women’s Health
Dr Margaret McCartney, GP and Senior Lecturer St Andrews University
Dr Anna Hutchinson, Clinical Psychologist, trainer and educator
Dr Richard Byng, GP and Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Plymouth

Safeguarding

Sonia Appleby, former Child Safeguarding Lead at Tavistock and Portman Trust
Dr Jane Martin, retired Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and former teacher
Rachel Cashman, co-founder of PSHE Brighton

Gender affirming medicine: what’s the harm?

Talks followed by Q+A and discussion
Dr Az Hakeem, Consultant Psychiatrist: protecting young gay and lesbian people from “modern conversion therapy”
Ritchie Herron: transition and detransition from a patient’s perspective
Stella O’Malley, Psychotherapist and Director of Genspect: Beyond transition – how do we support detransitioners
Dr Az Hakeem, Ritchie Herron and Stella O'Malley speaking at CAN-SG conference March 2024

Closing speech

Dr Stella Kingett, co-chair CAN-SG
Dr Stella Kingett, co-chair of CAN-SG

Dr Stella Kingett closed the conference, thanking all those who made it a success. She expressed the hope that this conference will be the first of many opportunities to meet and discuss these issues in a new era of open professional discussion and debate.

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