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Welcome to the May issue of your CINP eflyer. In this Issue
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After considerable deliberations the CINP Code of Conduct Committee that included Juan J. Lopez-Ibor (Chairman), David Copolov, Robin Emsley, Lars Farde, Giovanni Fava, Alan Frazer, Guy Goodwin, Atul Pande and Siu Wa Tang composed a proposal for code of conduct for CINP members in relation to conflict of interest and other ethical matters. This Code of Conduct was modified after discussions in the Executive Committee and sent out for comments to the CINP Council as well. It is now posted on our website http://cinp.org/index.php?id=136 for comments by CINP members and interested others. It will be modified if necessary according to comments received and will be brought for approval to the CINP General Assembly to be held at the next biennial congress in Hong Kong (6-10 June 2010). No such document is perfect and by its nature is a work-in-progress. I am proud that the CINP has taken this initiative in this difficult but critical area and look forward to discussion with our world-wide membership. RH Belmaker 
The CINP has now made available membership in the Neuroscience Education Institute at no charge for CINP members.
The Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) was founded by CINP member Stephen Stahl in 2001, and has been involved in developing courses especially in psychopharmacology throughout the world. Now, NEI has developed an online membership program, making these courses and materials available through the website at www.neiglobal.com. In addition to online lectures, and the availability of hundreds of hours of CME activities and credits for free, the NEI Membership also includes a monthly newsletter with timely articles as well as access to numerous other articles, including Dr. Stahl's Brainstorms series in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; Trends in
What is the Master Psychopharmacologist Program? A recent enhancement has been the development of the Master Psychopharmacologist Program and its associated online Psychopharmacology Fellowship. The Master Psychopharmacologist program begins with a self assessment exam in 10 subject areas across all of psychopharmacology. This exam is interactive, showing not only correct and incorrect answers, but the reasons why answers are correct or incorrect. Following the self assessment examination, clinicians can start the fellowship program, and must complete it within a year. When completed, the candidate can take a final exam, and become designated a Master Psychopharmacologist if the examination is passed.
What is the online Psychopharmacology Fellowship Program? This program is aimed at practicing psychopharmacologists, but can be attempted by upper level trainees in psychiatry. It is comprised of 24 weekly activities that take place once a week for half a year. One week the activity is a case; another week a mechanism of action animated lesson of drug action or disease state; another week an article; and the fourth week a "snippet" or brief lecture. Each activity takes only about 30 minutes. These four weekly activities rotate every week of the month, and for six months in a row. After completing 24 activities, the fellow can take the online final exam. A transcript of completed activities is automatically generated as the fellow progresses. The transcript will also suggest areas to study and references to read in those areas identified as needing study from the self assessment examination. Full instructions as to how to get started can be found on the CINP website, Education section http://cinp.org/index.php?id=35.
History Committee: Past and Future Activities 
CINPs history committee began in 1986 as an informal collaboration among Ole Rafaelsen, Hanns Hippius and I at the tail end of Rafaelsen’s presidency. Our plan was to reconstruct the history of CINP from eyewitness records before it was too late. Ole died shortly after, but Hanns and I continued with the work and from 1986 to 1996, during the presidencies of William Bunney (1986-88), Alec Coppen (1988-90), Julien Mendlewicz (1990-92), Giorgio Racagni (1992-94) and Lew Judd (1994-96). We prepared a series of four booklets, the last one in collaboration with the late Oakley Ray, on the first 30 years of the history of CINP. By the time our work was completed, the history committee had become one of the 12 constitutional committees and during the presidencies of Claude de Montigny (1996-98), the late Helmut Beckmann (1998-2000), Eugene Paykel (2000-02), and Herbert Meltzer (2002-04) its activities were extended to the reconstruction of the field of neuropsychopharmacology. Spearheaded by Edward Shorter, a social historian, and David Healy, a psychiatrist with special interest in the history of psychopharmacology, by 2004, a second four volumes series was completed that covered in autobiographical accounts, the fifty years that laid the foundation of the field. The series was complemented during Brian Leonard’s (2004-06) presidency, and the late Ronaldo Ucha Udabe’s chairmanship of the history committee, with a volume on The Neurotransmitter Era in Neuopschopharmacology in which the first epoch in the history of the field was reviewed by basic scientists and clinicians actively involved in research during that period. Activities of CINP’s history committee from 1986 to 2008 had also included the creation of a photo archives in neuropsychopharmacology that was published in 2000, and the preparation of a pioneers’ series, the first volume of which, Joel Elkes’ Selected Writings, was published in 2001. In 2008, at the 26th congress in Munich, during the presidency of Torgny Svensson, CINP celebrated its 50th year anniversary with a symposium organized by Fridolin Sulser and Herman van Praag, and with an exhibit on the history of the CINP prepared by Hanns Hippius and his team. It is the task of the current history committee to ascertain that the books published by the committee during the past 20 years are kept alive for future generations as website publications. Another task of the current committee is to complement the exhibit displayed in the Psychiatric Hospital in Munich with a volume in which the first 50 years in the history of the CINP is reviewed. The committee plans to extend its activities with the preparation of a historical document on psychotropic drugs introduced since 1952 and with the development of the necessary infrastructure (i.e., international history network), and information base (e.g., chronological listing of publications with an impact on the development if the field) for the establishment of an international archives in neuropsychopharmacology (regardless which site is chosen for this facility). To meet the challenge, identifying well in advance the people from whom archival material should be collected, Fridolin Sulser will be starting with the organization of a team that will map the “family trees” of the different schools in the field, e.g., Bernard Brodie’s, around the world. Another task of the current history committee is to establish or consolidate CINPs archives --provisionally organized by Hans-Jurgen Moeller, Norbert Mueller and Hanns Hippius at the Psychiatric Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich-- where all the transactions of the organization are stored and catalogued. Activities of the archives will include the assembling of special collections (directories, abstract books, proceedings, posters, and publications of the organization since the time of founding), and individual collections (members with distinguished service to the College), as well as the further development of CINPs international photo archives. Current Members of the Committee are: Nancy Andreasen, Per Bech, Philip Bradley, Arvid Carlsson, Alec Coppen, John M. Davis, David Healey, Hans Hippius, Juan Lopez-Ibor, Hans-Jurgen Moller, Norbert Muller, Fridolin Sulser, Herman van Praag and Oldrich Vinar. Tom Ban 
(The photo to the right is a picture of The CINP Thematic Meeting on "Major Psychoses and Substance Abuse" was held in Edinburgh on 25th - 27th April 2009. The meeting was a great success and the feedback we received was extremely positive. All posters sent via the PosterSessionOnline platform are available for 6 months. Visit the CINP Edinburgh 2009 virtual poster gallery via this link: http://cinp.org/index.php?id=122 . You may also send an e-mail to the first author in this section. All posters have been issued with a DOI code, so they can be officially referenced in other publications. Thank you for supporting this CINP initiative. Some speakers presentations will be soon be available to view on the CINP website. Please visit www.cinp.org for further details. 
CINP would like to congratulate Prof. Anthony Phillips, CINP Vice President, on being this year's recipient of the prestigious Heinz Lehman Prize and also on his recent appointment as Scientific Director of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction.
Over 160 excellent symposium proposals were received for the Hong Kong CINP 2010. This is a record in the history of CINP, especially taking into account the fact that rules for geographical distribution (at least 3 different countries and 4 different institutions should be represented in each symposia) were particularly tough for this meeting. The proposals cover our usual wide ranging topics (addictive disorders, animal models, antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, brain stimulation, childhood and adolescent disorder, dementia, depression, eating disorders, ethics of psychopharmacology, historical conflicts in neuropsychoparmacology, genetics, history of psychopharmacology, hypnotics, imaging, molecular neurobiology and pharmacology, mood stabilizers, neurophysiology, OCD, personality disorders, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacogenetics and pharmacokinetics, PTSD, psychoneuroimunology, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, suicide, tobacco dependence and transcultural psychopharmacology). The International Scientific Program Committee consisting of Ranga Krishnan, Min-Soo Lee, Ellen Leibenluft, Sarah Lisanby, Shekhar Saxena, Vidar Steen, Solomon Snyder, Tadafumi Kato, Rachel Yehuda, Jingping Zhao, Erik Wolters, SK Kulkarni, Jayashri Kulkarni, Robert H. Belmaker, Hans-Jurgen Moller, Torgny H. Svensson, Wolfgang Fleishhacker, Anthony Phillips, Shitij Kapur and Lars Farde will be meeting in Paris in June to make the difficult choices necessary. Simultaneously with the creation of the core scientific program widespread pharmaceutical company international interest, including but not limited to Asian pharmaceutical companies, has been expressed for the Hong Kong meeting. The CINP Industrial Liaison Committee chaired by Hans-Jurgen Moller and Wolfgang Fleischhacker and in conjunction with Congrex Holland, are collating the proposals for breakfast, lunch and dinner satellites and will be choosing appropriate and balanced forums so that CINP will remain the ideal interactive meeting for industry, drug discoverers, clinical trial designers and practitioners and leading edge clinicians.
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