ACAMH's National Conferences revolve around named lectures - the Emanuel Miller Lecture and Day Conference during the spring and the Jack Tizard Lecture and Day Conference during the summer. 

The Emanuel Miller Lecture was established in 1972, in memory of Emanuel Miller, one of the founders of the Association and its first Chair and is recognised both for the academic quality of the Lecture as well as for the international reputation of its presenters.  Speakers over the last ten years have included Professor Sir Michael Rutter, Dr Mary Main, Dr Marian Sigman, Professor Willian Yule, Professor Jay Belsky, Dr Uta Frith, Professor Jim Stevenson, Professor Eric Taylor and Professor Leon Eisenberg.  Although the key-note speaker sets the scene for the day, the supporting presentations, which look at variations on the theme, are of an equally high standard.  The Emanuel Miller Lecture appears in its complete form in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and the proceedings of the day conference in the Association's Occasional Paper Series.

The emphasis of the Jack Tizard Lecture and Day Conference is one of clinical practice and day-to-day relevance.  It was named after Jack Tizard CBE, Chair of ACPP from [dates] and a great exponent of multi-disciplinary research, who successfully worked on areas traditionally considered within the guarded boundaries of other professionals.  The Jack Tizard memorial lectures rapidly gained a place in the clinical calendar following their inauguration in 1983.  The topics covered reflect this inter-clinical element and eminent speakers have included Professor Philip Graham, Professor Scott Henggeler, Dr Carole Kaplan and Professor David Galloway to name but a few.  The Lecture appears in the Association's journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health and past conferences have also been reproduced as an Occasional Paper.