Elmārs Rancāns is Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia. Having graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine, Latvian Academy of Medicine, he completed post-graduate training in psychiatry at the Riga Psychoneurological hospital, Latvia. Dr. Rancans has defended his PhD at the Department of Psychiatry, Umea University, Sweden on the topic of suicide research. Dr. Rancans is currently involved in the teaching of students and he is also a Head of Residency training programme at the Riga Stradins University. He is actively lecturing nationally and internationally at different CME events for GPs and specialists. The current clinical and research interests of Dr. Rancans are epidemiology and psychopharmacological treatment of affective and psychotic disorders. He has participated in numerous international and local trials. Dr. Rancans has published many articles and presented posters at international congresses.