Project leader
	Prof. Marina Danckaerts                                                                                 Phone: 00 32 16 34 38 21 Fax:      00 32 16 34 38 30

Description of the organization

The UPC‐Psychiatric Centre is a large University Hospital based psychiatric service, specialising in toplevel clinical care and is part of the Neuroscience Department of the University of Leuven. The UPC is headed by Prof. M. De Hert and Prof. K. Demyttenaere; the Child and Adolescent Department is headed by Prof. M. Danckaerts. The main areas of research at the centre are Schizophrenia, Depression, Epidemiology, Autism and ADHD. The clinical and research child and adolescent team consists of 9 child and adolescent psychiatrists and 10 trainees. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department consists of 70 inpatient places, a liaison child psychiatry service, 8 forensic places, some outreach facilities, an Autism reference centre, a day-clinic and a large outpatient clinic. More than 600 new patients are seen in the outpatient clinic. A specialist ADHD outpatient programme is run. All children and adolescents are diagnosed according to a standard protocol. Some 200 new cases are seen each year in this clinic, of which approximately 60% are diagnosed with ADHD. Psycho‐education and Parent Management Training programmes are also available as well as medication titration and monitoring modules. The ADHD outpatient service has participated in several international multisite clinical trials over the past decade. Recently, a teacher behaviour modification tool has been developed at the centre.

Previous experience

The UPC‐KU Leuven Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit has participated in several large scale international clinical trials with Prof. Danckaerts as the Principle Investigator (Buitelaar e.a. 2007; Bangs e.a. 2008). The centre is a partner in the PERS study, which is also funded by the FP7 program. The centre also participated in the European Guideline Development for the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD and was also involved in the dissemination and implementation of these guidelines (via EINAQ and EUNETHYDIS).

Profile of staff members

Marina Danckaerts (MD, PhD) is a Clinical Professor at the University Hospital Leuven and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and is also Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a national Principle Investigator for several international multicentre clinical trials. Research projects on the clinical management of ADHD, neuropsychological models and neuro-imaging and emotional functioning in ADHD are running.

Jurgen Lemiere (PhD) is a child neuropsychologist, involved in ADHD research programmes and responsible for the research projects running in the group.

Lotte Geudens (MD) is a trainee and research assistant in Child psychiatry. She takes part in the research projects at the unit, develops software for neuropsychological paradigms and will work on the ADDUCE website.

Main tasks in the project

This site will be responsible for WP 10 (Training, Quality Assurance and Dissemination) but also be involved in WP 3 and WP7.