Dear All,

Welcome to the historical city Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad).

Clinical Practice in psychiatry is very exciting and dynamic experience. It is filled with care of patients from infancy to elderly of both sexes. Serving this diverse population comes with its own challenges. Apart from this, psychiatry is brimming with different sub-specialties, which are expanding exponentially. A practitioner may wish to excel into any of these. Field of child psychiatry & developmental psychiatry is excelling with advances in genetic newer modalities of interventions. This field offers opportunity to understand gene-environment interactions at its best. Adults present with unique challenges of diverse psychiatric illnesses, addictions, sexual disorders and plethora of adjustment issues. Clinicians need to update themselves with rapid pace of exploding research in neuroscience and ever changing concepts of psychiatric illnesses, diagnostic system, diagnostic techniques, therapies and interventions. New age problems of sleep disorders, behavioural addictions are further stretching the horizons in private practice. On this Silver Jubilee conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry we welcome you to experience the scientific feast with theme: Expanding horizons and challenges in psychiatry practice. Welcome to historic city of gates, and monuments. Apart from historical sites, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar is surrounded by variety of sites seeing opportunities like world heritage sites, shrines (Sai Baba Shirdi, Ghrushneshwar, Kachner), hill stations, jungles, natural wonders like Lonar crater etc. November-December is the most pleasant environment here. Rest be assured to receive finest hospitality from us.