Dr. Constantine D. Della was a former president of the Philippine Psychiatric Association. At present, he holds the following positions: Member of the Specialty Board of Philippine Psychiatry, President of the World Association of Dynamic Psychiatry-Philippines, Secretary of the Psychotherapy Section of the World Psychiatric Association, and member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and heads the Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry of the Philippine General Hospital.