Committees
Congress President
Pedro Ruiz
Congress Co-president
Jiří Raboch
Organising Committee
Chair: Tarek Okasha
Co-chair: Eva Češková
Members:
Tsuyoshi Akiyama
Michael Musalek
Juraj Rektor
Vladimír Kmoch
Scientific Committee
Chair: Dinesh Bhugra
Co-chair: Cyril Höschl
Members:
Levent Küey
Edgard E. Belfort
Afzal Javed
Michelle B. Riba
Pavel Mohr
Lucie Bankovská-Motlová
Zdeněk Fišar
Honorary Committee
Dana Jurásková
Director of General Faculty Hospital (VFN) in Prague
Jaroslav Blahoš
Chairman of Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně
Václav Hampl
Rector of Charles University in Prague
Tomáš Zima
Dean of 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague
International Advisory Committee
WPA Council Members
Ernst Peter Berner (France)
Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (USA)
John Cox (UK)
Felice Lieh-Mak (China)
Juan José López-Ibor (Spain)
Juan E. Mezzich (USA)
Ahmed Okasha (Egypt)
Pierre Pichot (France)
Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
Fini M. Schulsinger (Denmark)
Costas Stefanis (Greece)
Sam Tyano (Israel)
WPA Section Chairs
Addiction Psychiatry – Tarek Abdul Gawad (Egypt)
Affective Disorders – Sagar V. Parikh (Canada)
Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders – Joseph Zohar (Israel)
Art and Psychiatry – Hans-Otto Thomashoff (Austria)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders – Joseph Biederman (USA)
Biological Psychiatry – Mohammed Abou-Saleh (UK)
Brain and Pain – Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (Brazil)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Dimitris Anagnostopoulos (Greece)
Classification, Diagnostic Assessment & Nomenclature – Ihsan Salloum (USA)
Clinical Psychopatology – Stein Opjordsmoen (Norway)
Conflict Management and Resolution – Michael Sadre-Chirazi-Stark (Germany)
Disaster Psychiatry – Moty Benyakar (Argentina)
Eating Disorders – Palmiero Monteleone (Italy)
Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health – Luigi Janiri (Italy)
Education in Psychiatry – Bulent Coskun (Turkey)
Emergency Psychiatry – Giordano Invernizzi (Italy)
Epidemiology and Public Health – Vivianne Kovess Masfesty (France)
Exercise and Sports Psychiatry – David A. Baron (USA)
Family Research and Intervention – Tamas Kurimay (Hungary)
Forensic Psychiatry – Jose G. Vernet Taborda (Brazil)
Genetics in Psychiatry – Wolfgang Maier (Germany)
History of Psychiatry – German Berrios (UK)
Immunology and Psychiatry – Norbert Mueller (Germany)
Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders – F. Gerard Moeller (USA)
Informatics and Telecommunications in Psychiatry – Pier Maria Furlan (Italy)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration – Antoun Fouad (Lebanon)
Literature and Psychiatry – Ahmed Mohit (Egypt)
Mass Media and Mental Health – Ines Josefina Puig (Argentina)
Measurement Instruments in Psychiatric Care – Vladan Starcevic (Australia)
Mental Health Economics – Samuel Zuvekas (USA)
Military Psychiatry – Vsevolod Rozanov (Ukraine)
Neuroimaging in Psychiatry – Antonio Vita (Italy)
Occupational Psychiatry – Jacques Metzer (Australia)
Old Age Psychiatry – Vincent Camus (France)
Perinatal Psychiatry & Infant Mental Health – Nicole Garret-Gloanec (France)
Personality Disorders – Peter Tyrer (UK)
Pharmacopsychiatry – Hans-Jürgen Möller (Germany)
Philosophy and Humanities in Psychiatry – Giovanni Stanghellin (Italy)
Preventive Psychiatry – Vassilis P. Kontaxakis (Greece)
Psychiatric Rehabilitation – Zebulon Taintor (USA)
Psychiatry and Human Sexuality – Said M. Abdel Azim (Egypt)
Psychiatry and Sleep Wakefulness Disorders – Mathias Berger (Germany)
Psychiatry in Developing Countris – Parameshvara Deva (Malaysia)
Psychiatry in Private Practice – Maria Luisa Figueira (Portugal)
Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability – Marco Bertelli (Italy)
Psychiatry, Law and Ethics
Psychiatry, Medicine and Primary Care – Michelle B. Riba (USA)
Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry – Florence Quartier (Switzerland)
Psychological Consequences of Torture and Persecution – Lilla Hárdi (Hungary)
Psychoneurobiology – Giuseppe Chiarenza (Italy)
Psychoneuroendocrinology – Charles Nemeroff (USA)
Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Care – Luigi Grassi (Italy)
Psychophysiology in Psychiatry – Silvana Galderisi (Italy)
Psychotheraphy – Daniel R. Wilson (USA)
Public Policy and Psychiatry – Richard Warner (USA)
Quality Assurance in Psychiatry – John McIntyre (USA)
Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry – Peter J. Verhagen (The Netherlands)
Research Methods in Psychiatry – Jean-Paul Macher (France)
Rural Mental Health – Sadamand Rajkumar (Australia)
Schizophrenia – Wolfgang Gaebel (Germany)
Stigma and Mental Health – Heather Stuart (Canada)
Suicidology – Danuta Wasserman (Sweden)
Transcultural Psychiatry – Ronald M. Wintrob (USA)
Urban Mental Health – Mariano Bassi (Italy)
Women's Mental Health – Unaiza Niaz (Pakistan)
Presidents of Member Societies
WFMH – Anthony Fowke
Psychosocial rehabilitation – Elizabeth Crowther
APFA
APAL – Edgar Belfort
EPA – Patrice Boyer
Pacific Rim Society – Greg Costello
Presidents of WPA Affiliated Societies
African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professions (AAPAP)
Alternative Fédérative des Associations de Psychiatrie (ALFAPSY)
Arab Federation of Psychiatrists
Danubian Psychiatric Association
European Federation of Associations of Families of Persons with Mental Illness (EUFAMI)
Francophone International Federation of Psychiatrists
Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks (GAMIAN)-Europe
Indo Australasian Psychiatric Association & South Asian Forum Australasian Chapter
Institute of Australasian Psychiatrists Inc.
International Association of Ethnopsychologist and Ethnopsychotherapists
International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS)
Latin American Psychiatric Association (APAL)
Lithuanian Cultural Psychiatry Association
Mental Healthcare Organization of Uganda (MHOU)
Moroccan Association of Private Psychiatrists
Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists
Panhellenic Union of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Psychiatric Association for Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Romanian League for Mental Health
Society for the Settlement of the Physically and Mentally Disabled (SSPMD)
Society of Preventive Psychiatry
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Psychiatric Federation
The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses (ISPS)
World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry (WADP)
World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders
Zone Representatives
Donna E. Stewart – zone 1: Canada
John S. McIntyre – zone 2: USA
Mauricio A. Sanchez – zone 3: Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean
Fabrizio Delgado Campodonico – zone 4: Northern South America
José Geraldo Vernet Taborda – zone 5: Southern South America
Linda Gask – zone 6: Western Europe
Henrik Wahlberg – zone 7: Northern Europe
Miguel Roca Bennasar – zone 8: Southern Europe
Jiří Raboch – zone 9: Central Europe
Petr Victorovich Morozov – zone 10: Eastern Europe
Driss Moussaoui – zone 11: Northern Africa
Walid Sarhan – zone 12: Middle East
Joseph Adeyemi – zone 13: Western & Central Africa
Solomon Rataemane – zone 14: Southern & Eastern Africa
Seyed Ahmad Jalili – zone 15: Western & Central Asia
Manickam Thirunavukarasu – zone 16: Southern Asia
Min-Soo Lee – zone 17: Eastern Asia
Francis Agnew – zone 18: Australasia & South Pacific