Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Raffles II, Swissôtel Quito

10:00-10-30 AM	Welcoming Mario Incayawar, M.D., M.Sc. José Manuel Cordova, Yachac (Quichua Healer) José María Montalvo, Yachac (Quichua Healer)
10:30-10:40 AM	Opening Comments Ron Wintrob, M.D. Co-Chair, Transcultural Psychiatry Section, WPA
10:40-11-15 AM	Cleansing Ceremony José María Montalvo, Yachac Otavalo José Manuel Córdova, Yachac Otavalo
11:15 AM	COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:15 PM	Breve Aproximación - Los Pueblos y Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador. [The Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador - An Outline] Gina Maldonado Ruiz, M.A. Director, Kuntur Samay - Center for Ethnocultural Research Quito, Ecuador
12:15-2:00 PM	LUNCH
2:15-3:00 PM	Factors Associated With Use of Traditional Healers in American Indians and Alaska Natives: Implications for Future Research and Policy . Jeffrey A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H. President & CEO, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
3:00-3:45 PM	Do Yachactaita (Quichua Healers) Have Clinical Skills to Identify Mental Disorders? Mario Incayawar, M.D., M.Sc. Director Runajambi (Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health), Otavalo, Ecuador Former Henry R. Luce Professor in Brain, Mind, and Medicine, Claremont Colleges, California.
3:45-4:15 PM	COFFEE BREAK
4:15-5:00 PM	Contextual Issues in Traditional Lakota Sioux Healing: A Proposed Study Jeffrey A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H. & Spero M. Manson, Ph.D. President & CEO, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
5:15-7:00 PM	OPENNING RECEPTION -  Room Appenzell (Guayas)