The Organizing Committee is grateful to many people for providing invaluable input in making the program. They include Myron L. Belfer, Per-Anders Rydelius, Daniel Fung, Luis A. Rohde, Suzanne Dean, Fusun Cuhadaroglu Cetin, John B. Sikorski, Kang-E Michael Hong, Andres Martin, Andreas Warnke and Helmut Remschmidt.

We thank our colleagues in the Chinese Society of Psychiatry, Jingping Zhao, Xiangqun Wang and Dongfeng Zhou who helped to promote and organize local participation.

We are also grateful to Kang-E Michael Hong Fundation for providing USD2000 to support participants from lower-income countries in Asia.

We also appreciate the generous support from the following major sponsors, without their support, it would be impossible to organize this congress.

Shire Plc
Eli Lilly & Company

Xian Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd.

Pfizer Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd

AstraZeneca

Abbott International-Solvay (Solvay Pharmaceuticals is now Abbott)