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Professor Norman Sartorius (IC25 Keynote Speaker)

Professor Norman Sartorius

Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes

Professor N. Sartorius, MD, PhD, FRCPsych was the Director of the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization and served as the President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association.

He is now the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, a non-governmental organization located in Geneva. Professor Sartorius holds several professorial positions in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. He published more than 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h index 122) and authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 120 books.

Professor Sartorius’ main areas of interest at present are the comorbidity of mental and physical disorders, the protection of human rights of people with mental illness and their carers, the reduction of the stigma of mental disorders and the education of psychiatrists and other stakeholders in the field of mental health.

In his previous positions he was the principal investigator of a number of international collaborative studies and projects dealing with schizophrenia and other major mental diseases, comorbidity of mental and physical illnesses, health service development and education of different categories of staff. 

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