ISAD - Key Persons


Amelia Mustapha

Job Titles:
  • Director, Centre for Mental Health

Arne Holte

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Mental Health, Norway

Bill Ashdown

Job Titles:
  • VP Mood Disorders Society of Canada

Chris Manning

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Primhe, UK

Christine Kuehner

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Dr Bernard Lerer - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Committee
Role: The Programme Committee is responsible for selecting the scientific programme for the ISAD biennial conference.

Dr Gustavo Vazquez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Dr Henricus Ruhe

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Trustee

Dr John Rush

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Dr Roger Pinder

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Trustee
  • Editor - Neuropsychiatric Disease & Treatment, Chairman NeuroCure Ltd, Netherlands
  • Member of Committee

Dr Sidney Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Immediate past President

Driss Moussaoui

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Elie G. Karam

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor & Head, Dept. of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology St. George Hospital University Medical Centre, Lebanon

Elliott Richelson

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Francesco Benedetti

Job Titles:
  • Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, Università Vita - Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Hugh McGuire

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Cochrane Committee

Joseph Wu

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California at Irvine, USA

Klaus Martiny

Job Titles:
  • Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hilleroed, Denmark

Marion Leboyer

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Mark George

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Martin Hauzinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Martin Preisig

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Mathias Berger

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Albert - Ludwigs - University, Freiburg, Germany

Michael Terman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, USA

Paul Albert

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Prof Allan Young - President

Job Titles:
  • Immediate past President
  • President

Prof Anthony Cleare - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
  • Professor of Psychopharmacology and Affective
Anthony Cleare is Professor of Psychopharmacology and Affective Disorders at King's College London, and a consultant psychiatrist in The National Affective Disorders Service at the Maudsley Hospital. He qualified in medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, before training in psychiatry at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, winning the Laughlin Prize of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Senior Psychopharmacologist Prize of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. He was appointed consultant at the Maudsley in 1998 and Chair at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, in 2011. He is a Principal Investigator in the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, which researches new tests, treatments and theories in mental health, and Co-Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders at KCL. Having previously run an inpatient affective disorders unit, he now leads a tertiary referral outpatient service for affective disorders. He is also Consultant Advisor in Aviation Psychiatry to the Civil Aviation Authority.

Prof Antony Cleare - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer

Prof Chris Thompson - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman, ISAD past President
Role: To engage with external organisations such as other scientific societies and advocacy organisations.

Prof Cornelius Katona

Job Titles:
  • Co Editor
  • Member of Committee

Prof Gordon Parker

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Prof Gregor Hasler

Job Titles:
  • University of Bern Is Secretary

Prof Hagop Akiskal

Job Titles:
  • Prof Cornelius Katona & Phil Bishop, Elsevier

Prof Jair Soares - President

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • President

Prof Jan Scott

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Trustee
  • Member of Committee

Prof Johan den Boer Netherlands

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Prof Kathleen Marikangas

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Trustee

Prof Mark Frye

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Trustee

Prof Mohammad Alsuwaidan

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Trustee

Prof Paolo Brambilla

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Prof Sagar Parikh - Chairman, Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Company Secretary
  • University of Toronto Is Co - Chair
Role: Develops educational programmes and offers an endorsement function to external programmes which meet ISAD's rigorous criteria

Prof Tetsuya Hirose

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Rachel Churchill

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Cochrane Committee

Raymond Lam

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • Member of Committee

Soraya Seedat

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Toshiaki Furukawa

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Vivien Hunot

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Cochrane Committee

William Coryell

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, USA
  • Member of Committee