Juan Mezzich
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Juan E. Mezzich, M.D., Ph.D. (born 1945) is the president of the World Psychiatric Association
(WPA).
He currently works as the Professor of Psychiatry and Director at the Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
, New York University.
During his life he was awarded the Simón Bolivar Award of the American Psychiatric Association, Doctor Honoris Causal at Athens University (Greece), Cordoba University (Argentina), and University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
He also received an Honorary Professorship at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and the University of Belgrade
.
Mezzich is author/coauthor of over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters and wrote more than 20 books and monographs and is the Editor/coeditor of Psychopathology
, Basel , and Psiquiatría y Salud Integral, New York. He is also an editorial board member of 12 other psychiatric journals in the Americas and Europe.
He graduated at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and was the president of the University Student Association.
He received psychiatric residency training at Ohio State University and was the diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
, and has a Ph.D. in Mathematical and Statistical Psychology at the Ohio State University
.
From 1996 to 1999 he was the Secretary General of the WPA. He was the president of the WPA.
World Psychiatric Association
The World Psychiatric Association is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.-Objectives and goals:Originally created to produce world psychiatric congresses, it has evolved to hold regional meetings, to promote professional education and to set ethical, scientific and...
(WPA).
He currently works as the Professor of Psychiatry and Director at the Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is an American medical school in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, currently ranked among the top 20 medical schools in the United States. It was chartered by Mount Sinai Hospital in 1963....
, New York University.
During his life he was awarded the Simón Bolivar Award of the American Psychiatric Association, Doctor Honoris Causal at Athens University (Greece), Cordoba University (Argentina), and University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
He also received an Honorary Professorship at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
.
Mezzich is author/coauthor of over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters and wrote more than 20 books and monographs and is the Editor/coeditor of Psychopathology
Psychopathology
Psychopathology is the study of mental illness, mental distress, and abnormal/maladaptive behavior. The term is most commonly used within psychiatry where pathology refers to disease processes...
, Basel , and Psiquiatría y Salud Integral, New York. He is also an editorial board member of 12 other psychiatric journals in the Americas and Europe.
Biography
Mezzich was born in 1945, in Lima, Perú, of Yugoslavian and Peruvian ancestries.He graduated at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and was the president of the University Student Association.
He received psychiatric residency training at Ohio State University and was the diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1934 following conferences of committees appointed by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Neurological Association, and the then Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American...
, and has a Ph.D. in Mathematical and Statistical Psychology at the Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
.
From 1996 to 1999 he was the Secretary General of the WPA. He was the president of the WPA.
Currently researching
Currently Mezzich is researching on:- New International Classification and Diagnostic Systems (ICD-11 and Comprehensive Diagnostic Model)
- Mental and General Health Comorbidity
- Culture-Informed Assessment of Mental Health (Multi-ethnic Bicultural Scale, Personal Health Scale, and Quality of Life Index)
- DSM-IV Cultural Formulation (educational developments and research evaluation of its impact on clinical care).
Books written by Juan Mezzich
- Psychiatry and Sexual Health: An Integrative Approach (2006)
- Philosophical & Methodological Bases of Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Comprehensive Health & Integration of Services: New York & International Perspectives
- Guía Latinoamericana de Diagnóstico Psiquiátrico (GLADP) (APAL, 2004)
- Personality Disorders (2004)
- WPA International Guidelines for Diagnostic Assessment (IGDA) (2003)
- International Classification and Diagnosis: Critical Experience and Future Directions (2002)
- Cultural Psychiatry: International Perspectives (2001)
- The City and Mental Health (2000), Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis: A DSM-IV Perspective (1996)
- Psychiatric Diagnosis: A World Perspective (1995)
- Psychiatric Epidemiology (1994)
- The 1986-1987 initial evaluation summary report (1988)
External links
- http://www.wpa2007melbourne.com/mezzich.php
- http://www.cliffordbeersfoundation.co.uk/perthkey.htm