Professor Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD, FRCPsych holds professorial appointments at several universities in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. He was the Director of the Mental Health Programme of the WHO, President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association. He is currently President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes in Geneva. His main interests at present are problems related to comorbidity of mental and physical disorders, the fight against stigma and the education of stakeholders in mental health care. He has published more than 500 articles in scientific journals and written,- co-authored or edited more than 100 books.

Doctor Savic graduated from the University of Zagreb’s School of Medicine, and completed his residency in psychiatry at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce (Zagreb, Croatia), where he currently works as a psychiatrist at the Department of Diagnostics and Intensive Care, First Episode Psychosis Unit. He currently heads the FEP day hospital program. Dr. Savic additionally specialized in forensic psychiatry. Dr. Savic received his PhD from University of Zagreb, and is currently a postdoctoral associate at the School of Medicine. He spent a year at the Yale University as a Fulbright Scholarship grantee, and continues to collaborate with the neuroimaging lab on projects aimed at elucidating biological underpinnings of mental disorders.