IACAPAP Special Interest Group Webinar on Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The IACAPAP Special Interest Group on Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is proud to launch its inaugural webinar, bringing together clinicians, leaders, and innovators dedicated to advancing hospital-based mental health care for children and youth worldwide.
Inpatient care remains a critical component of the child and adolescent mental health system—yet models of care, workforce capacity, safety practices, and therapeutic approaches vary widely across and even within countries. This opening session will set the stage for how best to advance the goal of exploring how global principles can be adapted to diverse cultural, economic, and health-system contexts, and how clinicians can build services that are safe, family-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented.
This foundational webinar will set the stage for the SIG’s mission: to create a vibrant, collaborative space for sharing knowledge, strengthening practice, conducting research, and shaping international guidelines that reflect both global wisdom and local needs.
Webinar information
- Date: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
- Time: 7:00 AM EST | 1:00 PM CET | 12:00 PM UTC
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Topic: Reimagining Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Global standards, Local realities, and the Future of Hospital Based Mental Health Care
- Speaker: Olabode Akintan (Bode), MD FRCPC MBA
- Host and chairperson: Dr Maite Ferrin, IACAPAP Vice President
Speaker
Olabode Akintan (Bode), MD FRCPC MBA
(Pronouns He/Him/Il)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Staff Psychiatrist, The Hospital for Sick Children
Asst. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Akintan is a graduate of the University of Jos Medical school in Nigeria. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical System and went on to complete a Child Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Maryland / Sheppard Pratt Hospital program in the USA, serving as Chief in his final year.
He moved to Canada and was appointed Assistant Professor at McMaster University and working at McMaster Children's Hospital for over a dozen years, serving as medical director for the inpatient service and emergency psychiatry services. He then moved to University of Toronto to take on a faculty position and as staff psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), where his primary clinical responsibility is on the inpatient service.
He serves as the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Division of Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Toronto. He is also on staff at Timmins and District Hospital, in Timmins, Ontario where he developed a unique model for virtual inpatient care delivery. He completed a Dual MBA program at Cornell university and Queens university in 2015.
Important note:
- The webinar is open to the public.
- This webinar will be conducted virtually via Zoom.
- Participation is free, but registration is required in advance. Seats are limited, and it's based on first-come, first-served. After registration, a copy of the webinar confirmation email will be sent. By registering for a webinar, consent is given for registration details to be provided to IACAPAP for webinar preparation.
- No certificate of attendance will be provided.
- IACAPAP reserves the right at all times to change, add or remove any terms without prior notice.
- IACAPAP reserves the right to make alterations to the webinar program at any time.
