New bylaws of the WACP were certified: now WACP is a legal entity.

The new bylaws of the WACP were registered: see: https://waculturalpsy.org/about-us/bylaws-of-wacp/

Hans Rohlof

Board of Directors

Executive Committee, Treasurer, Western Europe

Hans Rohlof

He is psychiatrist, psychotherapist and researcher in private practice and at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. From 1999 till November 2015 he was affiliated to ‘Centrum ’45’ in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands: this is the National Institute for Psychotrauma Treatment and Research. Next to his private practice, he is connected as consultant psychiatrist at GGZ Integraal, a psychiatric outpatient service for migrant patients. He is specialised in cognitive behavior therapy, group therapy and directive treatment methods. He is a certified psychotraumatologist. His specialization is the diagnosis and treatment of traumatized refugees. He is occupied with the national education of residents in Transcultural Psychiatry, and with several other education programs, nationwide and abroad. He has an affiliation to the University of Utrecht, for research and education. In June, 2018, he got his Ph.D. title for the thesis:’Psychodiagnostic assessment with refugees. Studies on the Cultural Formulation Interview and Somatization.’

He is Secretary of the Johannes Wier Foundation for Human Rights and Health Care, based in Amsterdam.

In 2001, he was one of the founders of the Section on Transcultural Psychiatry of the Netherlands Association of Psychiatry, and for eight years he was Board Member and Secretary. Since 2007, he is Board Member and later Treasurer, of the Division on Psychotherapy of the Netherlands Association of Psychiatry.

Since August, 2008, till September, 2014, he was Board Member and later Chair of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association. In 2014, he was appointed as Honorary Advisor of this Section. In the same year he was granted a Honorary Membership of the World Psychiatric Association because of his merits for the field.

Since 2014, he is Board Member of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry. In 2015, he became Treasurer of this Association, and in that function he is one of the three officers.

He is member of the Editorial Board of the peer reviewed scientific journals ‘Transcultural Psychiatry’ and ‘World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review’. He is also editor of the Dutch journal for psychotherapy ‘PsyXpert’. He is occupied as peer reviewer for nine scientific journals, among which the ‘British Journal of Psychiatry’ and ‘European Psychiatry’.

Publications: www.rohlof.nl/publicaties

WACP Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Western Europe

Mario Braakman

Board of Directors

Executive Committee, President-elect, Western Europe

Mario Braakman

Dr. Mario Braakman is psychiatrist, psychotherapist and cultural anthropologist. He is professor of transcultural forensic psychiatry at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. In Pro Persona Mental Health he is director of the psychiatric residency training program and provides a cultural consultation service since 2010. His PhD research focused on the diagnostic validation of ‘posttraumatic stress disorder with secondary psychotic features’ among asylumseekers and refugees. His present research interest is in the area of cultural empathy. He is the immediate past president of the department of transcultural psychiatry of the Dutch Association of Psychiatry. He is the president of the 6th WCCP and president elect of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry. He is the editor-in-chief of the World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review.

WACP Board of Directors, North America

Lisa Andermann

Lisa Andermann, MPhil, M.D., FRCPC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she works in the Psychological Trauma Clinic as well as the Ethnocultural Assertive Community Treatment Team. Dr. Andermann is a consultant psychiatrist and former Board Member for the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, and continues to be active on their Health Committee. She co-edited, with Laura Simich, a volume entitled Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants, International Perspective on Migration Series, Springer, 2014. She is also co-founder of the New Beginnings refugee clinic at CAMH.

Her main areas of interest in research and teaching focus on cultural psychiatry. She has been very involved in an educational initiative to enhance the cultural competence of the postgraduate psychiatry residency curriculum together with colleagues from the Equity, Gender and Populations division (EGP), and led a faculty development initiative on culturally competent supervision and teaching which won the 2008 Ivan L. Silver Award for Excellence in Continuing Mental Health Education. In June 2015, she was the co-recipient of the 2015 Social Responsibility Award from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for her work with Pillar 4 as part of the Department of Psychiatry’s Strategic Plan. This Pillar focused on issues regarding equity, social justice and social responsibility, cultural psychiatry and global mental health, and promoting dialogue to reduce stigma and increasing public engagement with mental health issues. She has been part of the Toronto-Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program (TAAPP) since its inception in 2003, assisting in the development of the first psychiatry residency training program in Ethiopia. She has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from McGill University, where she completed her medical studies, and a graduate degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.

WACP Board of Directors, North America

Daniel Chen

Board of Directors

North America

Daniel Chen

Daniel Chen received his psychiatry residency training at North Shore University Hospital, NYU School of Medicine. He has been working at the Departments of Psychiatry of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center since he finished his residency training in 2001. Administratively, Dr. Daniel Chen serves as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Services at Flushing Hospital Medical Center. He is the Director of the Mental Health Clinic and the Director of the Asian Behavioral Health Program. Academically, Dr. Chen is Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Ross University School of Medicine. As the Chairman of the Institutional Review Board at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Chen oversees all of the research activities at the hospital. He was the PI of the NYS Integrated Physical Health and Mental Health Care Projects, and has done a number of other research projects including the APA’s DSM-5 Field Trial. He has had several publications and has presented his studies nationally and internationally. Clinically, Dr. Chen has expanded the Asian Behavioral Health Services and strengthened the multicultural treatment programs. Under Dr. Chen’s initiative and leadership, Flushing Hospital was granted by the State of New York for one of the ten integrated care licenses at the Mental Health Clinic and the Reflections Addictions Clinic.

WACP Board of Directors, North America

Laurence Kirmayer

Board of Directors

North America

Lisa Andermann

Laurence Kirmayer

Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute, and Director of the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where he conducts research on culturally responsive mental health services, the mental health of Indigenous peoples, the integration of culture in global mental health, and the anthropology and philosophy of psychiatry. He founded and directs the annual McGill Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry (www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych). In Canada, he founded the national Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research (www.namhr.ca), the Cultural Consultation Service (www.mcgill.ca/ccs), and the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre (www.mmhrc.ca). His publications include over 300 articles and book chapters as well as the co-edited volumes, Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2008), Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care (Springer, 201); Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (Cambridge, 2015). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

WACP Board of Directors, Mexico, Central and South America

Patricia Aceves Pulido

Board of Directors

Mexico, Central and South America

Patricia Aceves Pulido

Not yet received

WACP Board of Directors, Mexico, Central and South America

Pablo Pascual Báez

Board of Directors

Mexico, Central and South America

Pablo Pascual Báez

Not yet received

WACP Board of Directors, Mexico, Central and South America

Carlos Rojas Malpica

Board of Directors

Mexico, Central and South America

Carlos Rojas Malpica

Graduated as Medical Surgeon School of Medicine, University of Carabobo in 1970 . Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry at the Professional School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Seville in Seville , Spain ( 1974-76 ) . Postgraduate Course in Behavior Therapy and Sexology in Psychiatric Research Institute of Venezuela (Caracas, 1977). Doctor in Medical Sciences at the University of Zulia (2001 ) . Professor of Psychiatry, Psychopathology and Medical Psychology, Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences UC. Chairman Head of the Department of Mental Health UC . Professor of Psychiatry at the Graduate Internal Medicine in Enrique Tejera Hospital . Professor of Social Psychology at the Graduate Labour Occupational Health UC . Member of the Academic Council of the Doctorate in Social Sciences and Ph.D. in Medical Sciences at UC. Participating as a speaker at various national and international congresses of the specialty . Author of several scientific research work and / or humanities published in National and International Journals of Europe, United States and Latin America and four Texts Specialty (including: Mental Health and Psychiatry Occupational Labour and the Mentally Ill to Death) . Honorable Mention National Prize for Medicine Luis Razzetti College of Physicians of Caracas (1991) and Rafael Guerra Méndez Prize College of Physicians of Carabobo State (1993) . Qualified Stimulus Program Investigator (PEI ) at the University of Carabobo (1999 ) . Member of the Venezuelan Society of Psychiatry, Geriatric Medicine , Public Health and Medical Sexology. Founding Member and Member of the Board of the University Network for Disability and Mental Health RUDISME (Madrid 2001). President of Carabobeño Chapter of the Venezuelan Society of Psychiatry (1983- 1985 and 1997-2000) . Honorary Professor at the Institute of Psychiatrists Spanish Language (Madrid). Member of the Editorial Board of the Journals Zona Tórrida (UC) , Psychopathology ( Madrid) , Investigación en Salud (University of Guadalajara, Mexico) , Journal of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana and Annals of Disability and Mental Health of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Qualified Program Encouraging Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of Venezuela as Researcher Level B (2011). Executive Secretary of the Latin American Group for Transcultural Studies (GLADET) . Coordinator of Cultural Psychiatry Section of APAL. Membre Associé Étranger de la Société Médico-Psychologique (Francia). Foreign Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Spain.

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WACP Board of Directors, Western Europe

Vittorio de Luca

Board of Directors

Western Europe

Vittorio de Luca

Vittorio De Luca is an Italian psychiatrist born in Rome, who is currently working in the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (SPDC) in Monterotondo, a town close to Rome (ASL ROMA 5). He has been working for 9 years in Private Hospital specialized in Addiction and Acute Psychiatric Disorders, then he started working in the Italian National Health Service. His first employment was in the Community Mental Health Service (Centro di Salute Mentale, CSM) in Palestrina, then in the new forensic Unit established in Subiaco (Residenza per l’Esecuzione di Misure di Sicurezza, REMS).

His medical and psychiatric training had been in La Sapienza University, in Rome; during his residency, he spent a term in Montreal, attending the McGill Summer Program in Transcultural Psychiatric and the Cultural Consultation Service led by Laurence Kirmayer and his team in the Jewish General Hospital.

He is an active member of the Italian Institute of Transcultural Mental Health since 2002, and an officer of Transcultural Psychiatry Special Section within the Italian Society of Psychiatry (Società Italiana di Psichiatria, SIP), where he has been recently elected Section president (2018).

He is a lecturer in Transcultural Psychiatry since 2007 in Istituto di Ricerche Europee in Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica (IREP), a private Institute providing higher education and specialization to psychodynamic psychologists and psychotherapists in Rome.

He has been an active member of World Association of Cultural Psychiatry since the beginning, as editorial assistant (2006-2009), assistant editor (2009-2012) and editor in chief (2012-2015) of the official journal (WCPRR), organizing the 2^nd World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry in Norcia (2009), and leading the Operational Group (2009-2012).

He is also part of the Board of Directors for the term 2015-2018, and renewed for the term 2018-21.

He has specific interest in the impact of cultural diversity in the organization of National Health System in Italy, Cultural competence in forensic settings and cultural approach to refugee system.

Rome, 19 February 2019

Board of Directors

Hans Rohlof

Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Pablo J. Farias

Hans Rohlof

Mario Braakman

Sergio Javier Villaseñor Bayardo

Lisa Andermann

Daniel Chen

Laurence Kirmayer

Kenneth Fung

Patricia Aceves Pulido

Pablo Pascual Báez

Carlos Rojas Malpica

Marcos de Noronha

Vittorio de Luca

Alberto Velasco

Irina Kupriyanova

Roman Ciesielski

Vedat Sar

Hana Abu-Hassan

Palmira Fortunato dos Santos

Byamah Brian Mutamba

Andrew Ezadueyan Zamani

Muthoni Mathai

Mitsuru Suzuki

Jianzhong Yang

Carla Raymondalexas Marchira

Jie Li

Vasudeo Paralikar

Athula Sumathipala

Muhammad Irfan

Rahul Shidhaye

Carlos Zubaran

Allister Carins Bush

Mao-Sheng Ran

Xudong Zhao

Laura Ospina Pinillos

Christine Musyimi

Albert Persaud

Afzal Javed

Meryam Schouler-Ocak

Board of Directors

Mario Braakman

Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Pablo J. Farias

Hans Rohlof

Mario Braakman

Sergio Javier Villaseñor Bayardo

Lisa Andermann

Daniel Chen

Laurence Kirmayer

Kenneth Fung

Patricia Aceves Pulido

Pablo Pascual Báez

Carlos Rojas Malpica

Marcos de Noronha

Vittorio de Luca

Alberto Velasco

Irina Kupriyanova

Roman Ciesielski

Vedat Sar

Hana Abu-Hassan

Palmira Fortunato dos Santos

Byamah Brian Mutamba

Andrew Ezadueyan Zamani

Muthoni Mathai

Mitsuru Suzuki

Jianzhong Yang

Carla Raymondalexas Marchira

Jie Li

Vasudeo Paralikar

Athula Sumathipala

Muhammad Irfan

Rahul Shidhaye

Carlos Zubaran

Allister Carins Bush

Mao-Sheng Ran

Xudong Zhao

Laura Ospina Pinillos