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Ahmed Waqas, MBBS, is a devoted clinical academic and researcher. He is a doctoral fellow in psychiatry at the Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, UK. Waqas’ research in mental health, was inspired by his own struggle with depression during his second year of medical school. An avid researcher, Waqas’ research interests lie in public mental health with a primary focus on maternal and child mental health. Waqas uses innovative evidence synthesis methods and machine learning to improve global maternal and child mental health.
Danuta Wasserman (DW) is a psychiatrist and Univ. Prof. Dr. Med. in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet (KI), and the current Director and Founding Head of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at KI, since 1993. DW has been appointed as the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention since 1997 and assists in the development of mental health promotion and suicide preventive programs on five continents. She is the former President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) and the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR). She is serving on the Board of the EPA and presently Chairs the Committee on Ethics. DW was the Chair and is presently the Co-Chair of the Suicidology Section at the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). She is also a member of the planning committee of the WPA. DW was elected President-Elect for the WPA 2020. DW is the former Chair of the Public Health Sciences Department at KI and developed masters and PhD programs for candidates in low- and middle-income countries, as well as mental health care programs for clinical psychiatrists with a focus on psychiatric disorders and suicide. DW is an Expert Advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Mental Health Gap Action (mhGAP) Programme which operates in low- and middle-income countries to improve services for neurological, mental and substance use disorders. She serves as an expert to UNICEF programme on mental health among adolescents at the population level and in the Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) programme, aimed at developing guidelines on mental health promotion and preventive interventions for adolescents in collaboration with WHO. DW provides technical support to the WHO member states and has projects in central and eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America as well as United States and Australia. Professor Wasserman is the Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK, Honorary Member of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association and Honorary President of Estonian-Swedish Mental Health Institute. She served as an international advisor to the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. DW has won numerous national and international honors and awards, including the Public Health Prize from the Nordic Council of Ministers of Health for the outstanding contribution to public mental health research and prevention, the Distinguished Research Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Research (AFSP), the Hans Rost Prize from the German Association for Suicide Prevention for the outstanding contribution to suicide research and prevention, the Stengel Research Award for outstanding contributions in the field of suicide research and prevention from the International Association for Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention (IASP), and from the British Medical Association (BMC) Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science for her book Depression: the facts published by Oxford University Press. DW is recipient of the H M The King’s of Sweden gold medal. DW is the author of numerous scientific articles, reports and book chapters. She is the editor of the Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention: A Global Perspective, published by Oxford University Press in 2009 which is updated and new edition 2020 is in press. Her comprehensive book for busy clinicians and the broad audience interested in suicide prevention “Suicide an unnecessary death” published by Martin Dunitz (2001), has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Russian and updated for a new edition by the Oxford University Press (2016). DW’s research activities comprise epidemiological, psychodynamic and genetic studies of suicidal behaviours. In 2009, she received the honour from the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, to organize the “Nobel Conference on the role of genetics in promoting suicide prevention and the mental health of the population.” She was responsible for organizing several national and international conferences in psychiatry and suicidology. DW is the Principle Investigator for large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCT), “Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE)” and “Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY),” assessing the effectiveness of different intervention approaches and prevention strategies for adolescents. Both RCTs are funded with €3 million each by the European Union (EU). DW leads also a large RCT in Sweden 2016 – 2020 involving 163 schools, with the aim to test the effectiveness of the mental health promoting, Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) program in comparison to a control group. DW is the Swedish site-coordinator of the NEVERMIND RCT-project (NEurobehavioral predictiVE and peRsonalized Modeling of depressIve symptoms duriNg primary somatic Disorders through ICT-enabled, self-management procedures) and POTION, an RCT studying promotion of social interaction through emotional body odours. Both projects are funded during 2017-2023 by the European Union, Horizon 2020 Framework program. Since 2000, she serves as the Principle Investigator for the Genetic Investigation of Suicide and Attempted Suicide Project (GISS project), funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Research Foundation in Sweden. DW serves as a scientific consultant to Columbia University, Texas University and Montana State University in the United States. Professor Wasserman is also the chair and a member of several national and international working groups on mental health promotion and suicide prevention.
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Dr Wieck is a Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester in the UK. Her specialist interests are in perinatal mental health and reproductive psychopharmacology in which she lectures and publishes widely. She was the Clinical Lead for the Perinatal Mental Health Clinical Network in Greater Manchester, a member of the National Clinical Reference Group for Perinatal Mental Health and Expert on the Valproate Bipolar Advisory Group at the European Medicines Agency and is currently the Chair of the Womens Mental Health and Gender Section of the European Psychiatric Association.
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I am NHS Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry, with higher training in Liaison Psychiatry, working in a busy inner city area, responsible for the provision of long term care for over 200 patients with severe and enduring mental illnesses. I supervise 400 assessments per year. Multiple diagnoses are common. In my independent practice I see over 60 new patients a year and coordinate the care of over 150 patients, many employed by City of London businesses. Between 2003 – 2010 I worked with the Irish Redress Board Scheme and Australian Claimants, providing reports for victims of institutional physical, emotional and sexual abuse. I have been involved in Class actions involving defective products (pharmaceutical) and civil rights violations (HMG). During the 2020 CoVID Pandemic I was a member of the CNWL NHS Trust ‘3 wise men’ ethics panel. I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and an International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. I was awarded the distinction of Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association in 2017. I was elected to the board of the EPA in 2019, and awarded the Association Medal of the BMA for sustained and meritorious service As Chair of the British Medical Associations Medico-Legal Committee, I regularly liaise with the Ministries of Health & Justice, the CPS and Medical Defence Organisations. I sat on the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee, and continue on that of the European Psychiatric Association, and previously the World Psychiatric Association. I investigated complaints for the NHS Ombudsman & the Healthcare Commission (as of 1st April 2009 the Care Quality Commission). I write over 80 reports a year for the UK and Eire Courts; claims have involved NHS Resolve; maritime work; government agencies, including the Ministry of Defence, Police forces, and Local Authorities; and multinational corporations. My research is forensically based, the interface of law with psychiatric practice and medically unexplained symptoms. Since 2001 I have lectured, and ran Workshops at National/International Conferences. I am author of 5 textbooks and monographs, and over 100 articles, letters, abstracts, and web-based learning resources. I am a reviewer for the RCPsych journal of continuing medical education, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, European Psychiatry and the British Medical Journal
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Dr. Wolff is a postdoc researcher at the Medical School of Hannover. His research focuses on the implementation of AI in routine clinical care. Current projects cover drug safety, organization of emergency departments and risk management in nursing homes.