Professor Afzal Javed

Professor Afzal Javed was appointed President-Elect at the 2017 World Congress of Psychiatry in Berlin. In 2020, he assumed the role of President and launched the 2020-2023 Action Plan.

As President, Afzal leads the work of the Executive Committee, ensuring the group remains focused on fulfilling the vision of WPA and on reaching its goals as outlined in its charter and in the current Action Plan.

In addition to his roles as a Consultant Psychiatrist at the UK NHS,  Honorary Clinical Associate Teacher at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick UK and honorary Chairman of the Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan,

Afzal also fulfils his role as WPA President by liaising with member societies across the globe, supporting their local endeavours and sharing knowledge and information between them.

Professor Neznanov N. G., MD

Since 1995 till now head, Department of psychiatry and narcology, St.Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

since 2002 till now  director Federal State Budgetary Institution «V. M. Bekhterev National Research Medical Center for Psychiatry and Neurology» of The Russian Federation Ministry of Health

since 2005 till now president World Association of the Dynamic psychiatry (WPA, affiliated member)

since 2010 till now president, Russian Society of Psychiatrists (RSP)

Head nonominal Roszdravnadzor expert-specialist in psychiatry

Honored higher education professor

Honored science leader

Professor Helen Herrman AO

Helen Herrman is Professor of Psychiatry at Orygen and The University of Melbourne, Australia, and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Mental Health, Melbourne. She chairs The Lancet-WPA Commission on depression due to report in 2021.

She is past president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) 2017-2020, as well as past president of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists and the International Association of Women’s Mental Health.  She has received the award of Officer of the Order of Australia, and honorary Doctor of Medical Science from the University of Melbourne.

In the past, as Professor and Director of Psychiatry in St. Vincent’s Health Melbourne she led the development of an integrated area mental health service under Australia’s national reform of mental health care. For one year she acted as regional adviser in mental health for the WHO’s Western Pacific Region. Her research and practice interests in the fields of community mental health care, promoting mental health and women’s mental health include the mental health of marginalised groups such as young women and men living in state care. She led the WPA’s action plan 2017-2020, concerned with supporting the contribution of psychiatrists to global mental health.

Danuta Wasserman

DW is the Principle Investigator for two large-scale European randomized controlled trials (RCT), “Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE)” and “Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY),” assessing the effectiveness of different intervention approaches and prevention strategies for adolescents. Both RCTs are funded with €3 million each by the European Union (EU). DW leads also a large RCT in Sweden involving 163 schools, with the aim to test the effectiveness of the mental health promoting, Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) program in comparison to a control group. DW is the Swedish site-coordinator of the NEVERMIND project (NEurobehavioral predictiVE and peRsonalized Modeling of depressIve symptoms duriNg primary somatic Disorders through ICT-enabled, self- management procedures) and POTION (Promoting social interaction through emotional body odours), both funded by the EU in the Horizon 2020 framework program during 2017 - 2023. She also is a part of the EU funded project Extended-Personal Reality: augmented recording and transmission of virtual senses through artificial-Intelligence (EXPERIENCE) until 2023.

Since 2000, she serves as the Principle Investigator for the Genetic Investigation of Suicide and Attempted Suicide Project (GISS project), funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Research Foundation in Sweden. DW serves as a consultant to the mental health promotion and suicide preventive studies among youth to several universities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and to Montana State University, Texas University and Columbia University in the United States.

Professor Wasserman is also the chair and a member of several national and international working groups on mental health promotion and suicide prevention.

Danuta Wasserman, MD, Phd.   Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology.

Head and Founder of National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental lll-Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet.

Norman Sartorius, M.D., M.A., D.P.M., Ph.D., FRC. Psych.

Dr Norman Sartorius, MD, MA, DPM, PhD, FRCPsych, was the first Director of the Division of Mental Health of WHO, a position which he held until mid-1993.   Subsequently he served as and President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) (1993-1999) and President of the Association of European Psychiatrists (EAP) (1999-2001).  He is now the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, a member of the Geneva Prize Foundation and holds professorial appointments at several universities in the UK, USA and China.

He has published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored or co-authored books and edited others.

He is an Honorary Fellow of numerous professional associations and has received honorary doctorates from universities in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Romania, Sweden and the UK.  

He is also an Honorary member of the Medical Academies in Mexico, Peru and Croatia and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Spanish Royal Medical Academy.

Professor Anna Vasileva

Chief  research associate, department of non-psychotic mental disorders treatment and psyhcotherapy

Head of the international liasons department,  V. M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center  for Psychiatry and Neurology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst (DAP, Munich, Germany)

professor, psychotherapy, sexology and clinical psychology department, North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov  , St. Petersburg, Russia

chair Russian branch, World association for Dynamic Pscyhiatry, affiliated WPA member

Member, Council of Europe Pompidou Expert Group on Drug Policies and human rights

Professor Peter Morozov, MD, PhD, DrSci (Med), Russia

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Advanced Medical Studies, Russian National Medical Research University n.a. Pirogov, Moscow

Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Vice-President

World Psychiatric Association, General Secretary

Senior Advisor, Visiting Professor, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Dr Gordana Milavić

Dr Milavić  is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK.  She is currently Chair of  the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, UK.  She is a member and President Elect of the Psychiatry Council of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK. 

Dr Milavić has over 40 years of experience in clinical work alongside being a teacher and trainer of junior doctors and mental health professionals.  She lectures in the UK and abroad in her specialist areas of mood disorders and service organisation.  Throughout her working career she has managed child and adolescent mental health services; she was Service Director and Clinical Director in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in London (1997 - 2005) and  ospital HopClinical Director at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (2006 to 2012). She was Co - Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association (2011 to 2017).

She is a Trustee and medical advisor of a number of mental health UK registered charities in the UK and internationally including the ‘British Serbian Medical Association”, ‘Nip in the Bud’, and ‘Concern for Mental Health’. 

Edmond H. Pi

Edmond H. Pi, M.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Professor Pi previously served as Executive Vice Chair, Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, and Director of Residency Training Program of the Department of Psychiatry at different medical schools in the U.S. Dr. Pi is certified in the specialty Board of Psychiatry (1980- ) and Psychosomatic Medicine (2008-2018). Dr. Pi is former Medical Director of the Department of Mental Health (DMH), State of California. Professor Pi is an accomplished researcher in the fields of clinical psychiatry and psychopharmacology, particularly ethnic and cross-cultural aspects.

Dr. Pi is a Distinguished Life Fellow of American Psychiatric Association (APA). He has been very active on both the national and international scenes in organized psychiatry in the past 30 years, including Vice President and Treasurer of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists, Chair of the Minority and Underrepresented (M/UR) Groups, and Member of the Assembly Executive Committee of the APA. Also, Dr. Pi served on the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) during the past 20 year, including Vice Chair of the SPC of 2019 and 2020 Annual Meetings of APA. He received the SPC Overachiever Award, APA Annual Meeting, 2019. Dr. Pi is an Honorary Fellow of World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He served as the Representative for Zone 2 – USA within the WPA Board (2014-2020), most recently, elected to the WPA Executive Board as the Secretary for Scientific Meetings (2020- ). Among his many honors, Dr. PI is the recipient of the 2009 Asian American (Kun-po Soo) Award and the 2021 George Tarjan Award of the APA. Dr. Pi is listed among the Best Doctors in America (Psychiatry) and America’s Top Doctors (Psychiatry).

Professor Wendy Burn CBE, BM, MMedSc, FRCPsych

Wendy was appointed as a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in Leeds in 1990 and now works part-time in a community mental health team for older people and as the National Mental Health Clinical Advisor to Health Education England.

She has been involved in the organisation and delivery of postgraduate training since she started as a consultant. She has held many roles in education. She set up the Yorkshire School of Psychiatry and was the first Head of School.

She was Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2011 to 2016 and President from 2017 to 2020.

She is currently Co-chair of the Gatsby Wellcome Neuroscience Project which focuses on modernising the neuroscience taught to psychiatric trainees. She is also Chair of the Clinical group of Equally Well, a project set up to improve physical health in people with a serious mental illness, and leads the Expert Group on COVID-19 Care for People with Mental Illness for the World Psychiatric Association.

Valery N. KRASNOV, MD, Professor.

From 1974 Valery N.Krasnov  is permanently working  in the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry as clinician and researcher. From  1993  professor Krasnov   has a position of  Director of the Institute. He has substantional experience in psychopathology, especially on schizoaffective and affective disorders, stress related, organic mental disorders, neuropsychiatry and psychosomatics.

 Professor  Krasnov  is  taking part  in organization and management of psychiatric care system on national level, in rendering psychiatric aid for victim of emergency situations (technological and natural disasters). He has worked in international mental health sphere since 1999, being  WPA Zonal Representative for Eastern  Europe  till  2005, member of   the Education Committee (2006-2009). Being one of the founders of The Psychiatric Association for the Eastern Europe and the Balkans (PAEEB), he took the position of  President of the  PAEEB for 2012-2015. 

Valery Krasnov  is  the member of Editorial Boards of different professional journals, and Editor-in-Chief  of the  journal “Doctor.Ru”, covering problems of neuropsychiatry. Being  Director of  Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry from 1993 till 2018 ,  now he is  Head of Department of pathogenetic studies in psychiatry in the same Institute, and  also Head of Postgraduate Department for psychiatry in   Russian National  Research Medical University.

Professor Krasnov was the President of  Russian Society of Psychiatrists for several years.  In 2014-2019 he was a member of International Task Force on revision ICD-10 and  formation of ICD-11 (under auspices of WHO).       

Professor Krasnov is Honorary Member of  WPA (since 2011). 

NATALIA TREUSHNIKOVA, Founder and President of the Union for Mental Health, Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the Needs of the XXI Century (Moscow, Russia)

Dr. Natalia Treushnikova is the Founder & President of the Union for Mental Health. The Union for Mental Health is the leading scientific and professional organization that promote integrated multidisciplinary & multisectoral approaches to protecting the mental health of the Russian population. She has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, education and training in psychiatry and mental health. During her career Dr. Treushnikova developed and implemented a variety of All-Russian and international research, advocacy, educational and awareness programs aimed at improving mental health services which were recognized and supported by the Russian Federation Government agencies and professional community in Russia and abroad. During her career she has been at the forefront of the organization of mental health services for people suffering from mental disorders through the development of the system of rehabilitation services, as well as community-based psychiatric care and social protection. Dr.Treushnikova is the founder & the editor of the Publishing House “Gorodets” where the special series of popular and scientific literature on mental health, including psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychology, is published. Dr.Treushnikova is one of the developers of the first Russian-language mobile self-help applications designed to combat depression and panic attacks: “AntiDepression”, “AntiPanic”, and “AntiPanic Pro”. Natalia Treushnikova was awarded the title of "Excellence in Health Care" for her special services in the field of mental health by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

OLGA PAZYNA, PhD (Economics), Vice-President of the Union for Mental Health, member of the Scientific Committee of the Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the Needs of the XXI Century (Moscow, Russia)

Dr. Pazyna specializes in researching the development processes and activities of non-profit organizations, increasing their competitiveness in the economic system, and raising standards in the understanding and management of community-based programs. She is the developer of community-based educational programs that have been incorporated in the health care system, school education, and sports. She was awarded with departmental awards of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and the Commission for the Organization of Management Training under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Jérémie Sinzelle, MD.

1. Section on History of Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Hôpital universitaire de psychiatrie, 2 Chemin du Petit Bel-Air, 1226 Thônex, Genève, Switzerland.
2. Vice-President. French Association of Psychiatrists in Private Practice (FAPPP-AFPEP), 21 Rue du Terrage, 75010 Paris, France.
3. Private Psychiatrist. 50 Avenue de Saxe, 75015 Paris, France.
4. Director and Child Psychiatrist. Social Security’s Medico-Psycho-Pedagogical Center, CMPP de l’UGECAM, 16 impasse Delépine, 75011 Paris, France.

 docteursinzelle@gmail.com

Jérémie Sinzelle practices psychiatry in Paris, France. His clinical approach combines a medical and a psychotherapeutic dimension.

He sees adult patients in his private practice, and sees children and adolescents at Social Security’s UGECAM Medico-Psycho-Pedagogical Center in Paris. Full member of the Medico-Psychological Society (SMP), and vice-president of the French Association of Private Exercise Psychiatrists (AFPEP), he chairs the Section for the History of Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). As a specialist in the history of schizophrenia in adults and children, especially in classical French, German and Italian psychiatry, by focusing on the history of psychiatric concepts, Jérémie Sinzelle wishes to contribute to a better understanding of mental disorders by professionals and the general public.

Simavi Vahip, Professor.

Simavi Vahip, is professor of psychiatry at the Affective Disorders Unit of Ege University Department of Psychiatry, Izmir, Turkey. His main areas of interest are mood disorders, especially bipolar disorders and related phenomena such as bipolar depression and manic switch; classification in psychiatry, and training in psychiatry. He has founded and directed several inpatient and outpatient units at Ege University, e.g. Affective Disorders Unit (1986), Clinical Psychopharmacology and Research Inpatient Unit (1989). He has worked as the Residency Training Coordinator for many years. He was member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Research Center of Ege University (1993-2016).

He is author in more than 130 papers and 20 books or book chapters in Turkish and in English. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Psychiatry Update / Journal of Continuing Education & Continuing Professional Development of Psychiatric Association of Turkey (2011-2014). He is co-editor of several first guidelines of Psychiatric Association of Turkey: “Treatment Guidelines for Bipolar Disorders” and “Source Book of Treatment Guidelines for Depression”. He served as the editor of the Turkish version of Bipolar Disorders (translation of the official ISBD journal) for three years.

He was president of the Society for Bipolar Disorders of Turkey (ISBD affiliated) between 2010 and 2013 and he was elected as member of the Board of Councillors of the International Society for Bipolar Disorder (ISBD) for two consecutive periods (2007-2011).

He served as president (2014-2016) and vice-president (2011-2014) for the Psychiatric Association of Turkey (PAT). He carried primary responsibilities in organizing scientific meetings and congresses both internationally (e.g. International Conference on Mood Disorders / Close Encounters of Three Seas- Istanbul/2006; 5th Biennial Conference of ISBD-the International Society for Bipolar Disorders-Istanbul/2012) and nationally (e.g. Scientific Programme Committee Chair in many National Congresses).

He served the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) at many levels including policy, planning, organization, education, training and others. He was the chair (2019-21) and the vice-chair (2017-19) of the Steering Committee of the EPA-Council of National Psychiatric Associations. As the chair he also served as member at the EPA Executive Committee and EPA Board (2019-21). He served as founding editor-in-chief for the InterACT (Official Newsletter of EPA Council of National Psychiatric Associations) and he is continuing this task since 2018. He participated and also organized support from Council member NPAs to different activities of the EPA.

Wolfgang Gaebel, M.D., Professor.

Dr. med. Wolfgang Gaebel is Professor of Psychiatry, former Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf (Germany), and Head of the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf. He is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Quality Management and Empowerment in Mental Health. From 2014 to 2016 he was also Founding Director of the LVR-Institute for Mental Healthcare Research in Düsseldorf.

Prof. Gaebel was President of the DGPPN (1995/6 and 2007/8) and of the EPA (2015/6). He is chairing the WPA Sections on Schizophrenia and on Quality Assurance. His research focus is on schizophrenia, including psychopathological and pharmacological aspects, treatment guidelines, destigmatisation, quality management, and the development of DSM-5 and ICD-11. He was a member of the WHO International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders, chaired the ICD-11 working group on Psychotic Disorders, and is a member of the WHO FIC Medical Scientific Advisory Committee for ICD-11.

Prof. Gaebel is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2020 he received as lifetime award the Wilhelm-Griesinger Medal of the DGPPN.

Dr. Geoffrey M. Reed

Dr. Geoffrey M. Reed is Professor of Medical Psychology and Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Capacity Building and Training in Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Beginning in 2008, he served as Senior Project Officer for the Development of ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO. He is currently a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee for ICD-11. Dr. Reed founded the WHO Global Clinical Practice Network (http://gcp.network), which now comprises nearly 16,000 mental health and primary care professionals from 160 countries, which contributed directly to ICD-11 through participation in field studies. He has received numerous awards, including the Robert L. Spitzer Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nosology and Diagnosis from the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the Division of International Psychology, American Psychological Association.

Prof. Marina Samushia

Marina Samushia – Vice-rector for scientific research at Central State Medical Academy of Department of Presidential Affairs

In 2000 graduated from Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education «N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

In 2015 defended a Doctoral thesis on the topic “Mental disorders in patients with malignant neoplasms of the female reproductive system (clinical picture, epidemiology, therapy)”.

Prof. Marina Samushia is the author of more than 65 scientific works, 6 tutorials and the co-author of 2 monographs, a glossary, clinical guidelines of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists "Mental Disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Prof. Marina Samushia is the Head of the following research topics: “Mental disorders in patients with pulmonary hypertension”, “Mental disorders as comorbid pathology and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease”, “Mental pathology and cervical dystonia: psychosomatic relationships”, “Mental disorders registered in the group of patients with COVID-19 and among medical personnel working with COVID-19 patients”; is also the academic advisor of more than 20 successfully held scientific-practical conferences.

Prof. Marina Samushia is actively engaged in social work being a member of the Expert Council on Healthcare of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. In 2020 she co-authored the 2019 Annual Report and the analytical review for 2000-2019 “On the state and problems of legislative support for the implementation of the foundations of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic for the period up to 2035. On the state and problems of legislative support for the scientific activities of the Russian Federation in Antarctica.

Samushia, M.A. is a member of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists, a member of several editorial boards of scientific practical journals reviewed by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation covered in Scopus.

Oleg V. Limankin

Oleg V. Limankin

1959

Ph.D.

Doctor of Medical Sciences

Vice-President of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists

Chief physician (Director) of the P.P. Kaschenko 1st St. Petersburg City Mental  Hospital

Professor at the Chair of Psychotherapy and Sexology of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov

Professor at the Chair of Social Psychiatry and Psychology of the St. Petersburg

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Experts

Fields of interest: psychosocial rehabilitation, mental health systems, history of psychiatry. Author of more than 180 publications, including 4 monographs, editor of several collections of scientific works, member of the editorial boards of some journals.

Dan Chisholm, M.D.

Dr Dan Chisholm is a social scientist with particular interests and expertise in public health, mental health policy and economics, and health systems research.  He currently works in the mental health unit of the WHO Regional Office for Europe (based in Copenhagen, Denmark), which serves to support national mental health policy, planning and evaluation, as well as provide guidance, tools and advocacy for the promotion of mental health and the development of prevention, treatment and recovery services across the life-course.  He was formerly a health systems adviser in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at WHO Headquarters Office in Geneva, Switzerland. His main areas of work there included development and monitoring of global mental health plans and activities, technical assistance on mental health system strengthening, and analysis of the cost-effectiveness of strategies for reducing the impact of mental disorders.  He has published widely in these areas over the last twenty years, including the Lancet’s series’ and recent Commission on global mental health.

SKUGAREVSKY, OLEG ALEKSEEVICH

Work Experience

1999 -2003 - Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Medical Psychology Department of Belarusian State Medical University;

From 2004 - present – Professor, Head of Psychiatry & Medical Psychology Department of Belarusian State Medical University;

2004-present - Professor-consultant, Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health, Minsk, Belarus.

Education

1994 - Graduated from Faculty of General Medicine (MD);

1994-1996 - Resident, Minsk State Medical Institute, Minsk, Belarus;

1996-1999 - Postgraduate research student, Minsk State Medical Institute, Minsk, Belarus;

1999 – Thesis:  “Functional psychosis of the involutional age (depression and papranoid): clinico-biological study”  (Ph.D.);

2008 – Thesis: “Eating disorders: clinico-biological  study”  (Dr. Sci);

2011 – Professor of Clinical Medicine, Minsk, Belarus.

Publications

Author of more than 230 publications, among them:

• Skugarevsky, O. Eating disorders / O.Skugarevsky.- Minsk: BSMU, 2007.- 340 p.
• Prospective associations of parental smoking, alcohol use, marital status, maternal satisfaction, and parental and childhood body mass index at 6.5 years with later problematic eating attitudes / K.H.Wade, O. Skugarevsky, M.S.Kramer et al. // Nutrition & Diabetes (2014) 4, e100; doi:10.1038/nutd.2013.40.- P. 1-8.
• Effects of promoting longer-term and exclusive breastfeeding on childhood eating attitudes: a cluster-randomized trial / O.Skugarevsky, K.H.Wade, R.C.Richmond et al. // International Journal of Epidemiology.- 2014.- P. 1-9 (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu072).
• The association of early childhood cognitive development and behavioural difficulties with pre-adolescent problematic eating attitudes / R.C.Richmond, O.Skugarevsky, S.Yang et al. // PLOS ONE.- August 2014.- Vol. 9.- Issue 8.- P. 1-10.- e104132.
• Kaitlin H Wade, Michael S Kramer, Emily Oken, Nicholas J Timpson, Oleg Skugarevsky, Rita Patel, Natalia Bogdanovich, Konstantin Vilchuck, George Davey Smith, Jennifer Thompson, and Richard M Martin. Prospective associations between problematic eating attitudes in midchildhood and the future onset of adolescent obesity and high blood pressure // Am J Clin Nutr.- 2016 doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.141697.
• I.Obyedkov, M.Skuhareuskaya, O.Skugarevsky, V.Obyedkov, P.Buslauski, T.Skuhareuskaya, N.Waszkiewicz. Saccadic eye movements in different dimentions of schizophrenia and in clinical high-risk state for psychosis // I.Obyedkov, M.Skuhareuskaya, O.Skugarevsky et al. // BMC Psychiatry (2019).- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2093-8.
• Morozov, P.V., Skugarevsky, O.A. New models of education for young psychiatrists / P.V.Morozov, O.A.Skugarevsky // International Review of Psychiatry.- Published online: 16 Aug 2019 doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2019.1644298.
• Morozov, P.V., Maruta, N.A., Skugarevsky, O.A. Training of psychiatrists in Eastern Europe: problems and solutions / P.V. Morozov, N.A. Maruta, O.A., Skugarevsky // International Review of Psychiatry, Published online: 16 Aug 2019. DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2019.1645645.
• COVID-19 Fear, stress, anxiety, and substance use among Russian and Belarusian University students / V.Gritsenko, O.Skugarevsky, V.Konstantinov et al. // International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.- May 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00330-z.
• Compulsory admissions of patients with mental disorders: State of the art on ethical and legislative aspects in 40 European countries / D.Wasserman et al. // European Psychiatry, 63(1), e82, 1–9 https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2020.79.

International activities

• Since 2003 – participation in international scientific projects in collaboration with EU and Canada;
• 2013 – present – President of the Belarusian Psychiatric Association;
• Organizer of international conferences in Belarus, including the First Congress of Young Psychiatrists of Eastern Europe (2018).

Editorial activities

Editorial board Member of professional journals:

• P.B.Gannushkin Journal “Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology” (Russia);
• “Psychiarty” (Russia);
• “Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology” (Belarus);
• “Medical Journal” in Belarus

Foreign  languages

English, Russian, Belarusian.

Oye Gureje

Dr Oye Gureje is Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan and Consultant Psychiatrist, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. A former President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria and of the African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professions, he was recently a member of the WHO International Advisory Group for the Revision of the ICD Chapter on Mental and Behavioral Disorders and also served as Chair of the Somatic Distress and Dissociative Disorders Work Group and Chair of the Cultural Guidance Work Group for ICD-II. He has served the World Psychiatric Association in various capacities including as a Member of the Board, Chair of the Task Force on Brain Drain and currently as a member of the Action Working Group on Comorbidity. He Chairs the Mental Health Action Committee and is a member of the Non-Communicable Diseases Expert Technical Working Group, both of the Federal Ministry of Health.

He is best known for his research in global mental health, including psychiatric nosology, epidemiology, and health system strengthening research. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, monographs, book chapters, and has co-edited 3 books. Described as one of the “most influential scientific minds”, he is listed among the global highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics (https://hcr.clarivate.com). He is a recipient of many awards among which are Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine and the Nigerian National Order of Merit, the country’s highest award for academic achievement.

Siegfried Kasper

Dr. Siegfried Kasper is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Born in Salzburg, Austria, he was educated at the medical schools of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Kasper gained clinical and research experience in psychiatry at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, the Psychiatric Department of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, the Clinical Psychobiology Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland/USA, and the Psychiatric Department of the University of Bonn, Germany; in neurology at the Neurological Department of the University of Heidelberg in Mannheim; and psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic training at the Ausbildungsinstitut für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse in Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany.

Dr. Kasper published more than 600 in PubMed listed publications (Google: Citation Index: 47.397; Hirsch-Index: 108, i10-index: 679) and more than 250 books or book chapters, in various areas of psychiatry. He concentrates on the biological bases of mental disorders and their possible treatment approaches. Furthermore, he has conducted studies in psychopathological as well as clinical areas. Dr Kasper is a frequent national and international speaker and continues to be actively involved in research programmes studying depression, anxiety, psychosis, and dementia.

Dr. Kasper serves/served on the executive committees and advisory boards of several national and international societies, such as the Austrian Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic (ÖGPP), the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the European Psychiatric Association (EPA). From 2005 to 2009 Dr. Kasper was President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) and has been appointed as Honorary President of the WFSBP in 2013. He has been elected to the Executive Committee of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) for the period of 2012 to 2018 and is now President of this society. Moreover, Dr. Kasper was Chair of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section of Pharmacopsychiatry from 2012-2019. He is Founding President of the Austrian Society of Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (ÖGPB) and of the Austrian Society of Drug Safety in Psychiatry (ÖAMSP). Furthermore, he is a Honorary Member of the Czech Society of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Romanian Society of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Hungarian Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, as well as of the Scandinavian College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology (SCNP) and of the Ukrainian Association of Psychiatry. He is a member of the Academia Europaea as well as the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Furthermore, he has been appointed as Honorary/Visiting Professor at the following universities: University of Hong Kong, China, in 2004; Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2014; Aino University in Osaka, Japan, 2015; Kolkata Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Health & Family Welfare, India in 2016; University of Hiroshima, Japan, in 2017 and Belgrade University School of Medicine, Serbia, in 2017.

Dr. Kasper serves on the editorial boards of numerous learned journals, including The Lancet Psychiatry, CNS Spectrums, Journal of Affective Disorders, Pharmacopsychiatry, European Archives of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. He is Chief-Editor of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice and was Chief-Editor of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry and Field Editor of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.

As a result of his research expertise, he is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific and public awards and prizes and has been acknowledged with the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, the Gold Medal for Meritorious Service to the Province of Vienna and received in 2019 the City of Vienna Award for Medical Science.

Professor Avinash DeSousa (India)

Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Minicipal Medical College & DeSousa Foundation, Mumbai, India

International Faculty for UNESCO Chair in Bioethics,

International Institute of Organizational Psychological Medicine

Visiting Professor, Senior Researcher, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8466-5648

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Daria Smirnova

Associate Professor Daria Smirnova, MD (Hon), PhD (Psychiatry)

Director, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

World Psychiatric Association, Evidence based Psychiatry Section Member

European Depression Association, National Representative of Russia

Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Section on International Collaboration Member

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Professor Florence Thibaut (France)

Paris Descartes University, University Hospital Cochin Paris, Paris, France

INSERM U1266 Member, Institute for Psychiatry and Neurosciences

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, Honorary President

International Association for Women’s Mental Health, President

Visiting Professor, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Professor Konstantinos Fountoulakis (Greece)

3rd Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

World Health Organization Representative of Greece, 

World Psychiatric Association, Zone 8 Southern Europe Representative,

ISNP President, Head of Cochrane Greece

Co-Director, Principal Investigator, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Professor Paul Cumming (Switzerland)

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 

Visiting Professor, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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