International Faculty
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Professor Dinesh Bhugra (United Kingdom) Prof. Bhugra is President-Elect of the World Psychiatric Association Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and Honorary Consultant at the South London and Maudsley Trust. He has been Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2003, and in July 2008 was elected President of the College. His research interests include professionalism in psychiatry, decision-making by psychiatrists, depression, schizophrenia, pathways into psychiatric care, deliberate self-harm, primary care, cross-cultural psychiatry, spirituality, psychosexual medicine and diversity. In addition to over 300 papers, chapters and editorials he has authored/edited/co-edited 20 books, including books on cultural psychiatry, management, and religion and psychiatry. His monograph, Mad Tales from Bollywood: Portrayal of Madness in Conventional Hindi Cinema, came out in July 2006. His more recent volumes are Culture and Self Harm, Handbook of Psychiatry for South Asia, Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry, Handbook for Trainees, Culture and Mental Health and Management for Psychiatrists. Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry published by Cambridge University Press was awarded a recommendation in the BMA Book Awards in 2008. He is the Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, International Review of Psychiatry and Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, which was launched in 2007. |
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Professor Robert Cloninger (United States of America)
Prof. Cloninger is currently the Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri). He received his B.A. with High Honors and Special Honors from University of Texas (Austin) in 1966, and his M.D. degree with honors in medicine and psychiatry from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1970. He completed Psychiatry residency in 1970-1973 at Washington University (St. Louis) & University of Hawaii (Manoa). He was awarded NIMH Career Development Award, Population Genetics Postdoctoral, 1975-1980 University of Umea (Sweden): M.D honoris causa, Psychiatric Genetics, 1983. Prof. Cloninger's present positions are: Director, Sansone Center for Well-Being, Washington University; and Director of Center for Psychobiology of Personality, Washington University. His is also appointed as professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry & Genetics at Washington University. His research on genetic epidemiology of psychiatric disorders is currently focused on linkage studies of alcoholism, schizophrenia, and bipolar affective disorder using molecular genetic probes in systematically ascertained sets of pedigrees. His research on personality is focused on validation of self-report and performance measures of individual differences in personality and operant/classical learning abilities. This includes cross-cultural studies of the structure of personality and assessment of the relationship between personality and learning. |
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Professor Seth Grant (United Kingdom)
Prof. Grant graduated in Science, Medicine and Surgery from The University of Sydney. His first research was with Professor David Read in the Department of Physiology studying neurophysiological mechanisms of breathing and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. After his internship at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he was a post-doctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and worked on genetic basis of cancer and diabetes, with Douglas Hanahan. In 1989 he worked with Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate 2000) at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. Here he studied the molecular and genetic basis of learning and memory. In 1994, Seth moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he was Professor of Molecular Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience. He is currently at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as a Principal Investigator, Honorary Professor at Cambridge University and directs the Genes to Cognition (G2C) research consortium (http://www.genes2cognition.org). Prof. Grant's primary research is on the basic mechanisms of behaviour and the diseases of the brain. In 1992, he first used knockout mice to discover genes involved with learning and memory and synaptic plasticity and has identified many other genes since. He demonstrated in 1998 that neurotransmitter receptors control plasticity and behaviour through their associated proteins leading to the concept that multiprotein machines at synapses are master regulators of behaviour. In 2000 he first pioneered the use of proteomics in the nervous system and has discovered hundreds of new synapse proteins. These synapse proteins are the subject of systematic study in the G2C program where their role in basic properties of brain function and disease are tested. These human brain diseases include schizophrenia, bipolar disease, Huntingtons and Alzheimers disease amongst others. He has recently studied the evolution of the synapse and uncovered a new model for the evolutionary origins of the brain and how it evolved the complexity found in humans and other animals. |
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Professor Karl Goodkin (United States of America) Prof. Goodkin is the Director of Mental Health AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles. He qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1976 at the Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, and in 1978 as medical doctor at the University of Miami, Florida, where he also obtained a PhD in clinical Psychology. He completed his residency in psychiatry in 1986 and worked as a post-doctoral researchfellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at Stanford University from 1986 - 1987. Prof. Goodkin’s experience include: his current position as director of Mental Health for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the largest primary care provider for HIV infected patients in the USA with clinics in 22 other countries; chief administrator, LA County Office of AIDS Programs and Policy (OAPP) clinical care contract for mental health services; and Director of Mental Health Research, AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Prof. Goodkin is the author and co-author of several books, book chapters and monographs including “The Spectrum of Neuro- AIDS Disorders: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment”, the “Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry”, and “Psychiatric Disorders & Diabetes Mellitus”. He authored and co-authored several hundred publications in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings, etc. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in HIV and AIDS in Psychiatry and Editor-in-Chief of Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine. His research areas include HIV and aging, neuroimmune pharmacology, neurovirology, psychoneuroendocrinology. Prof Goodkin acts as consultant for several organizations on HIV neurocognitive disorders, neuropsychiatry, and health care policy. |
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Professor Dilip V. Jeste (United States of America)
Professor Jeste is the current President of the American Psychiatric Association, the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging Distinguished and professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. He is also director of the NIMH-funded Advanced Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention and Research at UCSD, focusing on psychosis in latelife. He is the principal investigator on several research and training grants, including national level research training programs for medical students. He is Director of the Education Division of the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Research Institute at UCSD. Following medical education in India, Prof. Jeste completed psychiatry and neurology residencies at Cornell and George Washington University, respectively. He was Chief of Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at NIMH before joining UCSD in 1986. He was President of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, and International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology, and is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. He has published 11 books, and over 600 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. Prof. Jeste is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council as well as of the Council of Councils of the National Institutes of Health. He is in the Institute of Scientific Information list of the “world's most cited authors”-comprising less than 0.5% percent of all publishing researchers of the last two decades. |
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Professor Anil Malhotra (USA) Dr. Malhotra is the Director of Psychiatry Research at the Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, NY, Professor of psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, NY, and an Investigator at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, NY. Dr. Malhotra completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University in 1985 and received his M.D. from Wake Forest University in 1989. After residency training in psychiatry at Georgetown University, he completed a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He developed a research program in pharmacogenetics at the NIMH where he was appointed as the Chief of the Unit of Pharmacogenetics in the Experimental Therapeutics Branch. In 1998, Dr. Malhotra moved to the Zucker Hillside Hospital and developed an internationally recognized molecular genetics program focused on the major neuropsychiatric disorders. |
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Professor Driss Moussaoui (Morocco)
Prof. Moussaoui is professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine and chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca, Morocco and current President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry. He founded and is still the chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca, Morocco, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health and Neurosciences since 1992. He is a past-president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He was also member of the executive committees of the World Association for Social Psychiatry and of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. He was honoured as "Knight of Throne Wissam" of the Kingdom of Morocco and he received the Prize of the President of Tunisia in Medicine. Prof Moussaoui published more than 100 articles in international journals and chapters of books. He is member of the editorial board of a number of international journals and also wrote or edited 10 books. He worked closely with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) since 1981. He participated in 1990 to the WPA Visiting Team to USSR, investigating possible political abuse of psychiatry. He was WPA Regional Representative for North Africa and the Middle East from 1993 to 1996 and Secretary for Meetings from 1996 to 2002. He was chairman of the WPA Section on Education in Psychiatry. In this respect, he contributed to the development of many WPA educational programs (Core curriculum in psychiatry for undergraduates, Core curriculum for post-graduates, WPA bulletin on depression, Teaching and learning about schizophrenia, Fighting schizophrenia and its stigma, Depressive disorders). Prof. Moussaoui initiated and implemented a number of WPA programmes: the Programme for Libraries in Developing Countries, the series "Anthologies of World Psychiatry" of which he is the director. He is the WPA Zone 11 Representative (Northern Africa) |
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Professor Seggane Musisi (Uganda) Professor Musisi heads the Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Service of Mulago Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. He is also Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and heads the Psychiatry Research Unit at the University of Makarere. Dr. Musisi's research interests include war-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, the psychiatric problems of HIV/AIDS in Uganda and the psychosocial consequences of violent cults and religious fundamentalisms. He received his medical degree from Makarere University and postgraduate training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He subsequently worked in Ontario at the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital as Director of the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, then at York Central Hospital as a Consultant Psychiatrist in charge of the Crisis Intervention and Day Care Services. He was also a Consultant Psychiatrist to the Toronto-based Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT). Through his work with traumatised refugees and immigrants fleeing to Canada from all over the world, he became interested in the global nature of psychotraumatisation and its sequelae on people's health (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Population displacements, epidemics and global ill health). Prof Musisi is the founder of the African Psycare Research Organisation (APRO), an NGO mental health research organization. He consults for the Kampala-based African Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, ACTV and is Consultant and Technical Advisor to the Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims - Working Group on Torture and Organised Violence, a Danish NGO. He is a member of the Sub-Saharan African Network against Torture and Organised Violence and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. |
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Professor Rutger Jan van der Gaag (The Netherlands)
Rutger Jan van der Gaag is a psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry (child & adolescent), director of training and research fellow at the University Medical Centre St. Radboud and Karakter University Centre for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He is President of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association. His research topics are developmental disorders, addiction and service development. He holds guest professorships in Belgium, France and is advisor to many Autism Societies all over the world. |
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Professor Manickam Thirunavukarasu (India)
Prof Thirunavukarasu is the President of the Indian Psychiatric Society and Head and Prof of Psychiatry in SRM medical College and research Centre attached to SRM university, India. He is the current WPA Zone 16 Representative for Southern Asia. |
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Dr Patricia J.M van Wijngaarden-Cremers (The Netherlands) Patricia J.M van Wijngaarden-Cremers is consultant psychiatrist trained at the University of Groningen. She is currently head of the department of Addiction Psychiatry and Developmental Disorders at Dimence Mental Health Overijssel in Zwolle. Moreover she is senior research fellow at the University Medical Centre St Radboud in Nijmegen. Her research topic are developmental disorders in adults, gender, traumatization and addiction and addictive behaviour. |
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