Scientific Council

The Scientific Council reviews the Foundation’s major scientific guidelines and annual programme of action before they are submitted to the Board of Directors for approval. The Scientific Council assesses scientific activities, new teams in the  FondaMental network and establishments listed as a FondaMental Expert Centre.

It is made up as follows:

President:
David Kupfer
Chair of DSM-V Task Force, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Celso Arango
Scientific Director of Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain

Patrice Boyer
Professor at University of Paris 7, President Elect of the European Psychiatric Association, France

Ellen Frank
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Christopher Gillberg
Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Guy Goodwin
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

René Kahn
Professor of Psychiatry, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Mario Maj
Professor of Psychiatry,University of Naples, Italy, President of the World Psychiatric Association

Alain Malafosse
Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland

Michael J Owen
Director, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Anita Riecher-Rössler
Professor of Psychiatry, Head of the University Psychiatric Outpatient Department, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Norman Sartorius
Professor of Psychiatry, President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland