Disasters

George N. Christodoulou, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry of Athens University. He is Immediate Past President of the World Federation for Mental Health, Honorary President of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association and Honorary Fellow of the World Psychiatric Association. He is presently President of the Society of Preventive Psychiatry and was the Founding Chair of the Psychiatric Association for Eastern Europe and the Balkans and the European Board of Psychiatry of the European Union, and President of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.

Juan E. Mezzich, MD, MA, MSc, PhD., is Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine. He is former president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and of the International College of Person Centered Medicine. He has also been chair of the WPA Section on Classification and of the US NIMH Diagnosis and Culture Group, and committee member for the ICD-11, DSM-IV, and Latin American psychiatric diagnostic systems.

Nikos G. Christodoulou, MBBS, PhD, MRCPsych is a Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry in Nottingham, UK. In addition to his clinical job at the NHS, he is also Honorary Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham and Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section of Preventive Psychiatry. He is also President-elect of the Psychiatric Association for Eastern Europe and the Balkans, following two terms in the Executive Committee of this Association.

Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, MD, PhD, is a neuropsychiatrist, psychotherapist and Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Belgrade. She is a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and is Director of the Institute of Mental Health, which she has transformed into a leading psychiatric tertiary institution in Serbia. She is also Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Healthcare Force Development and Head of Department of Psychiatry at the Belgrade University School of Medicine.