President-Elect Campbell Paul
We are delighted to be able to congratulate our colleague and friend, Campbell Paul as the new President-Elect of the WAIMH Board of Directors! Campbell is a consultant infant psychiatrist at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and is a Master trainer at NBO Australia. Campbell was first trained in the NBAS in Cambridge, England, when he worked with Lynne Murray and her team at the Winnicott Centre in Cambridge. He also worked with Dilys Daws and Juliet Hopkins in London and with Serge Lebovici and Antoine Guedeney in Paris and with Mary Sue Moore and Janet Dean in Boulder Colorado, among many. Campbell is dedicated to deepening our understanding of the inner world of the baby, particularly as it informs therapeutic work with infants and their parents. WAIMH is indeed fortunate that he is at the helm during the challenging times and we are fortunate to call him a colleague and friend at Newborn Behavior International.
Catherine Maguire and Hisako Watanabe have been elected to the World Association for Infant Mental Health Board. Catherine is a Senior Clinical Psychologist, an Infant Mental Health Specialist, an Endorsed Infant Mental Health Mentor IMH-E® and is an NBO practitioner. She is one of the founders of the Irish Association for Infant Mental Health and has played a central role in raising awareness of infant mental health issues in Ireland. Catherine works with the Young Knocknaheeny Project in Cork, Ireland. Hisako Watanabe described how she was influenced by the work of T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues in the Goto Islands in Japan. Subsequently, she joined Dr. Brazelton on a panel at WAIMH in Stockholm in 1985 and this set her on her way to a career caring for infants and families, which has continued over the past three decades.
In other news, due to the current COVID-19 situation, the WAIMH Executive Committee and Organizing Committee has concluded that WAIMH 2020 must be postponed. The Congress will now take place on 23 – 27 June 2021 and will remain at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. The program – including all NBO and NBAS-related sessions – will remain the same, with the same sessions organized in the same order.