Sydney Anxiety and OCD Conference

A two day event 11th-12th September 2025

Organising bodies: USyd, WSLHD, NBMLHD, St Vincent’s CRUfAD.

Sydney Anxiety and OCD Conference will discuss cutting edge research in the field of anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders and trauma related disorders. It will have both a biological and psychological focus with the presenters and attendees coming from psychiatry, psychology, medical and social science backgrounds. This is the second Sydney Conference on Anxiety and Related Disorders with the first held at Nepean Hospital in 2010.

The conference has the following specific aims:

To stimulate research endeavours for anxiety and OCD in Australia
To enhance collaborative efforts to better treat anxiety and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
To be informative to clinicians who treat patients with anxiety disorders
To improve standards of clinical practice for the treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders

A series of presentations have been planned and the final scientific program will be published by May 2025.

Convenor: Prof Vlasios Brakoulias

Scientific Committee: Prof Vlasios Brakoulias, Prof Vladan Starcevic, Dr Mike Millard, Dr Evelyn Kandris, Dr Yasmeen El Masry, Dr Alison Mahoney, Dr Denise Milicevic.

Deadlines for abstracts for poster presentations: 28 April 2025

Abstract Submissions to vlasios.brakoulias@sydney.edu.au

Delegate registration fee: Early bird fee - $360 (payment due before the 18 June, 2025). Standard registration fee - $420.

The fee includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days.

Options to attend one day only and online are also available.
Venue: Level 5 Westmead Innovation Centre, 175 Hawkesbury Road Westmead NSW.