The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das’ lecture opened the National Congress of Hospital Psychiatry with international participation that was held in Belgrade from October 10 to 12, 2018, organized by the Association for Emergency Psychiatry of Serbia, Clinic for Psychiatric Diseases, “Dr Laza Lazarević” and the Clinic for psychiatry at the Clinical Center Kragujevac.

Along with Stephen M. Stahl, one of the invited lecturers, Shyamanta though could not make it to Belgrade. Therefore, his video-recorded lecture was played there and it was a great success.