Keynote Speaker – Prof. Zoltan Sarnyai
We’re excited to announce our keynote speakers for the 2024 Glasser Australia National Conference: Choosing Well-Being – A mental health and well-being conference like no other!
Prof. Zoltan Sarnyai
We look forward to welcoming Prof. Zoltan Sarnyai to the 2024 Glasser Australia National Conference on the Gold Coast.
Prof. Zolton Sarnyai keynote address:
Climate Change and Mental Health
More to learn about Prof. Zoltan Sarnyai
Zoltán is Professor at James Cook University. He was previously University Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, where he was Director of Studies for Medicine. He trained at McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School and at The Rockefeller University, supported by the DuPont-Warren Award and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, respectively. His group described the role of stress neuropeptides oxytocin and corticotropin-releasing factor in addiction, for which he was awarded the Richter Prize by the International Society of Psych neuroendocrinology and the efficacy of ketogenic diet in preclinical models of schizophrenia. Zoltán was appointed Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to study the neuro-metabolic aspects of schizophrenia. He currently serves as Chief Scientific Advisor for the Tropical Brain and Mind Foundations and is on the Executive Committee for the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. He is Associate Editor for Nutritional Neuroscience and Frontiers in Neuroscience, and editorial board member of Stress.
