Lionel Cailhol is psychiatrist, head of the psychiatric department of the Montreal Mental Health Institute and associate professor at the Montreal University. He was trained in France and Switzerland. He currently works in a specialized outpatient clinic for personality disorder patients.

• Responsable médical de l’unité d’hospitalisation complète unité C de Psychiatrie Universitaire de la Personne Âgée (Soins sous contrainte) • Responsable médical Unité de Recherche et d’Innovations, Fédération Universitaire de Recherche, d’Innovations et d’Enseignement (FURIE) • Responsable médical Unité Neuromodulation (filière rTMS et autres techniques) • Adjoint chef de pôle, filière Psychiatrie de la Personne Âgée, Pôle Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l’Adulte, de la Personne Âgée et d’Addictologie (PUP3A) • Consultant Centre Compétence bipolarité, UCER Mondain, CH Esquirol, Limoges

Dr.Rodrigo Carmona Camacho is a psychiatrist at Fundación Jiménez Díaz (Madrid, Spain) and associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He has worked in Dual Pathology since 2012, first with a grant from the Spanish Society of Psychiatry that allowed him to work as a research assistant at the Multicultural Mental Health Research Center (Dr. Alegria. Cambridge Health Alliance. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA) and later as project coordinator and clinical supervisor of the International Latino Research Partnership project (NIDA Grant 5R01DA034952-02). These positions have given him experience in the development and operation of international research networks, fields in which he later obtained his PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2019). His work in the field of dual pathology has focused on minority populations and the use of new technologies in mental health, having developed a specific assessment and treatment tool, which has been tested in pregnant women within the WOMAP project (Woman Mental Heatlth and addictions on pregnancy) funded by the National Plan on Drugs (Ministry of Health. Government of Spain). These works have resulted in several publications and conferences in international forums.

Bernardo Carpiniello is Full Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cagliari (Italy), director of the Postgraduate School of Psychiatry.and head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the University Hospital, Research. Prof. Carpiniello’s main areas of research are clinical psychiatry ,clinical psychopharmacology, social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology and consultation-liaison psychiatry; he is author or coauthor of 350 papers, more than 190 of them published in r international peer-reviewed journals, included World Psychiatry, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry/JAMA Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Psychiatry Research, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, International Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology,, Schizophrenia Research, Psychiatry Research, European Psychiatry, BMC Psychiatry, Journal of mental Health Systems, Frontiers Psychiatry Scientific Societies He is currently Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the National Psychiatric Associations’ Council within European Psychiatric Association, member of the Executive committee of the Italian Psychiatric association (SIP) as Past President, member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Psychopathology (SOPSI). Prof. Carpiniello was formely President of : Italian Academic Board of Professors, Italian Society of Social Psychiatry, Italian Society of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Editorial Board Prof.carpiniello is currently member of the Editorial Board of the following Journals: Evidence Based Psychiatric Care, “Journal of of Psychopathology”, “Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health”, Journal of Ment Health Systems, and Co-Editor (Psychiatry) of “Case Report in Medicine”. Scientific Events Prof.Carpiniello was member of the Scientific Committee of the following Congresses:35th National Congress of the Italian Psychiatric Association (Cagliari 27/10-1/11/1982); 1st National Congress of the Italian Association of Forensic Psychiatry;(Cagliari,8-11 Novembrer 1987), National Congress on Emotions and Psychoapthology, (Porto Cervo-Olbia, 8-10 June 1989), 3rd National Congress of The Italian Association of Psychiatric rehabilitation (Cagliari,24-27 September 1992; International Symposium on Biologic and Therapeutic Aspects of Major Psychoses (Cagliari,2-4 June 1994):. He was President of the5th Congress of the Italian Associatin of Social Psychiatry (Cagliari,10-13 October 1999 and of the 6th National Thematic Conference on Gender Differences in Psychiatry (Cagliari, 20-22 October 2011). Prof. Carpiniello has member of the Local Scientific Committee of the EPA Virtual Congress 2021