Board of Trustees:
Name: Vaidrius Navikas
Title: Chairman
Nationality: Lithuanian
Gender: Male
Born in 1966
Elected to the Board in 2014. Member re-elected. Current election period expires in 2018
M.D., PhD (Dr Med Sci) from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Current Positions:
- Vice President, Medical Affairs, H Lundbeck A/S; Denmark
Member is appointed by the LINF Board
Member is considered independent
Name: Driss Moussaoui
Title: Board Member
Nationality: Morroccan
Gender: Male
Born in 1949.
Elected to the Board in 2013. Member re-elected. Current election period expires end of 2017
M.D., PhD
Current Positions:
- Professor; Morrocco
- Honorary Fellow, World Psychiatric Association
- Honorary Fellow, World Association of Social Psychiatry
Areas of Interest:
- Social Psychiatry, including Transcultural Psychiatry, Religion-Spirituality/Psychiatry interface, Migration and Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Ethics in Psychiatry
- History of Medicine, including History of Psychiatry
Member is appointed by the LINF Board
Member is considered independent
Name: Philip Gorwood
Title: Board Member
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Born in 1961.
Elected to the Board in 2015. Current election period expires end of 2018
M.D., PhD
Current Positions:
- Professor of Psychiatry and Head of CMME, Hopital Sainte-Anne (Paris Descartes University), France
- Head of team 1 (INSERM U894), Centre de Psychiatrie et de Neurosciences (CPN), France
- Editor-in-chief of the journal European Psychiatry
- Treasurer and member of the Core Organising and Scientific Committee (COSC), Executive Committee (EC) and board of the European Psychiatric Association
- Member of scientific advisory (SAB) board of the ECNP for addictive disorders
Areas of Interest:
- Neurocognitive deficits in major depressive disorder
- Endophenotypes in anorexia nervosa
- Genetic vulnerability in addictive disorders
Member is appointed by the LINF Board
Member is considered independent
Name: Xin Yu
Title: Board Member
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Born in 1965
Elected to the Board in 1 january 2016. Current election period expires end of 2017
M.D. from Peking University, Beijing, China
Current positions:
- Professor, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, China
- President of Chinese Society of Psychiatry (2013-2015), China
- President of Asia College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2013-2015), China
- Founding president of Chinese Psychiatrist Association
- Vice Chairman of Alzheimer’s Disease of China (2010-20014)
- Board member of Schizophrenia International Research Society
Areas of Interest:
- Dementia
- Late life depression and psychosis
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- First onset schizophrenia
- Mental health and HIV/AIDS
- Bipolar disorders
- Neurocognition assessment in neuropsychiatric disorders
Member is appointed by the LINF Board
Member is considered independent
Name: Christopher Chen
Title: Board Member
Nationality: Malaysian (Singaporian PR)
Gender: Male
Born in 1959
Elected to the Board in 1 July 2016. Current election period expires 30 June 2018
BM BCh (Oxon) from University of Oxford, UK. MRCP (UK), FAMS (Neurology)
Current positions:
- Senior Consultant Neurologist, Dept of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore
- Honorary Senior Consultant, Dept of Medicine, NUH, Singapore
- Associate Professor, Dept of Pharmacology, NUS, Singapore
- Director, Memory Aging and Cognition Centre, NUHS, Singapore
- Senior Clinician Scientist, Biomedical & National Medical Research Councils, Singapore
Areas of Interest:
- Neurochemistry
- Genetics and treatment of stroke and dementia
Member is appointed by the LINF Board
Member is considered independent
Name: Christoph Correll
Title: Board Member
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Born in 1966
Elected to the Board in 1 January 2017. Current election period expires 31 December 2018
M.D.
Current positions:
- Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hofstra North Shore, LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, New York, USA
- Medical Director, Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, New York, US
Areas of Interest:
- Schizohprenia
- Mood disorders
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychotic and mood disorders prodrome
- Physical health in mentally ill
Member is appointed by the LINF Board
Member is considered independent
