Section Committee                   

prof. dr. Alexander Moreira-Almeida (Brazil) chair (2014- ) Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine Federal Universsity of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) R. ItaliaCautiero Franco 497, Granville Juiz de Fora – MG 36036-241 Brazil Phone:  55 32 3211 8557/ 55 32 9123 4564  E-mail: alex.ma@ufjf.edu.br; alex.ufjf@gmail.com www.ufjf.br/nupes

prof. dr. Nahla El-Sayed Nagy, co-chair (2014- )

past secretary (2009-2014)

Institute of Psychiatry Ain Shams University 21, Ismail Ramzy Street, Heliopolis Cairo Egypt   
Phone:  202 26422659
Fax:  202 24515739
E-mail: nahlanagy64@yahoo.com

prof dr. Bernard Janse van Rensburg            secretary (2014- )    Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Sciences University of the Witwatersrand 7 York Road, Parktown Johannesburg 2193 South Africa Phone:  27 11 340 9000/9038 Fax:  27 11 782 0270 E-mail: Bernard.JansevanRensburg@gauteng.gov.za

Board members

prof. dr. A.J. Braam (Netherlands)

dr. Simon Dein (UK)

prof. dr. Valerie De Marinis (Sweden)

dr. Avdesh Sharma (India)

prof. dr. R. Strous (Israel) 

Consultants

prof.dr. Herman M. van Praag past founding chair                                  Maastricht University Academic Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology  P.O. Box 5800 6202 AZ Maastricht The Netherlands T: 31 55 5760795 F: 31 55 5775612 E: h.m.van.praag@vanpraag.com

prof. dr. Driss Moussaoui past founding co-chair University Psychiatric Center Ibn Rushd Rue Tarik Ibn Ziad Casablanca 20000 Morocco T: 212 22 228719 F: 212 22 965125 E: psych@casanet.net.ma

Peter J. Verhagen, MD, past founding secretary, past chair (2006-2014)                                           GGZ Centraal P.O. Box 1000 Ermelo The Netherlands 3850 BA T: (31-341) 566 911 F: (31-341) 560 814 E: p.verhagen@ggzcentraal.nl

prof. dr. John L. Cox past co-chair (2009-2014)                       United Kingdom

dr. A.G. Avgoustidis (Greece)

prof. dr. Chris C.H. Cook (UK)

prof. dr. G. Glas (the Netherlands)

dr. T. AlHabib (Saudi Arabia)

prof. dr. B. Karasu (USA)

prof. dr. H. Koenig (USA)

prof. dr. M. King (UK)

prof. dr. A. Mohit (WHO, Iran)

prof. dr. R.S. Murthy (WHO, India)

prof. dr. A. Okasha (WHO, Egypt)

dr. Mohamed Omar Salem (United Arab Emirates)

dr. S. Pfeifer (Switzerland) www.sonnenhalde.ch, www.samuelpfeifer.com

Section members

dr. M. Aguis, Bedfordshire and Luton Partnership Trust, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, and Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research in association with the University of Cambridge, UK.
prof. dr. RH Belmaker, Hoffer-Vickar Professor of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, CINP President-Elect, Beersheva, Israel belmaker@bgu.ac.il
dr. S. Dein, psychiatrist and antropologist,editor of Mental Health, Religion and Culture, University College London, UK rmhasde@ucl.ac.uk
prof. dr. N. el-Guebaly, Addiction Center-Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Canada
prof. dr. M. Galanter, professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA http://www.med.nyu.edu/spirituality, www.med.nyu.edu/substanceabuse
dr. Palmira Rudaleviciene, consultant psychiatrist at Vilnius Mental Health Center, Chairman of the Lithuanian Cultural Psychiatry Association, Vilnius, Lithuania.
dr. M. Omar Salem, assistant professor of psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates mohammed.salem@uaeu.ac.ae  
dr. J. Turbott, clinical associate professor, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
s-j.turbott@xtra.co.nz