President

Luis Augusto Rohde, MD, PhD

Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Director

ADHD Program

Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Secretary General

Yewande Oshodi, MD, MPH, Mphil

Associate Professor of Psychiatry / Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Department of Psychiatry

College of Medicine University of Lagos & Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idiaraba, Lagos, Nigeria

Treasurer

Carmen M. Schröder, MD, PhD

Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Strasbourg University

Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Strasbourg University Hospital

Head of the Excellence Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders STRAS&ND

President, European Union of Medical Specialists - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (UEMS-CAP)

European Board Certified Sleep Expert

Past President

Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng, MD

CEO, Institute of Mental Health Singapore
Adjunct Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian Medical School, Nanyang Technological University

Yong Loo Lin Medical School and DUKE NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore

Honorary President

(MOOC Coordinator)

Bruno Falissard MD, PhD

Professor of Public Health, Université Paris-Sud. 
Paris, France

Honorary President

Helmut Remschmidt, MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 
Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
 

Honorary President

(External Relations Chair)

Myron L. Belfer, MD, MPA

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Senior Associate in Psychiatry
Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, USA
 

Vice President

Ammar Albanna, MD FRCPC IFAPA

Director, Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Emirates Health Services, UAE

Founding President, Emirates Society for Child Mental Health, Emirates Medical Association  

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Vice President

Devashish Konar

Consultant Psychiatrist and Director, Mental Health Care Centre, Burdwan and Kolkata, India

Vice President

Gordon Harper, MD

Assoc Professor (part-time), Harvard Medical School Psychiatry, United States

Vice President

Guilherme V. Polanczyk, MD, PHD

Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil

Director the Early Diagnosis and Interventions Program and the Child & Adolescent Inpatient Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry of Hospital das Clinicas, University of São Paulo

Vice President

Koroma Mohamed James, M.Sc., (CAMH)

CAMH Principal Nursing Officer, Ola During Children’s Hospital, Siera Leone.

Acting Head, Department of Paediatric and Neonatal Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone.

Vice President

Liu Jing

Professor and Chief, Director of Mental Health Center for Children, Peking University Institute of Mental Health and Sixth, China

Vice President 

Maite Ferrin, MD, PhD

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist 

Honorary Clinical Lecturer

United Kingdom

Vice President

(Henrikje Klasen iCAMH Training Program Coordinator)

Nicholas Mark Kowalenko, MD

University of Sydney
Deputy Chair, Emerging Minds
Australia

Vice President 

Yukiko Kano MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Child Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo  
Director, Department of Child Psychiatry, The University of Tokyo Hospital

Japan

Director of Communication

Hesham Hamoda, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School​
Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Children’s Hospital
USA
 

Donald Cohen Fellowship Program Coordinator

Ayesha Irshad Mian, MD

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
 

Donald Cohen Fellowship Program Coordinator

Naoufel Gaddour, MD

Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
 

Early Career Group Coordinator

Dicle Buyuktaskin Tuncturk

Gazi University School of Medicine 

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 

Department of Neuroscience 

Turkey

Early Career Group Coordinator

Dina Mahmood

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist 
Children’s Hospital Westmead 
Sydney Children’s Hospital Network

Australia

E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief

John-Joe Dawson-Squibb

Clinical Psychologist, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Red Cross Children's Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, 

South Africa

E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief

Hee Jeong Yoo, M.D, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry

Seoul National University College of Medicine

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

South Korea

E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief

Valsamma Eapen MBBS., PhD., FRCPsych., FRANZCP

Chair, Infant, Child and Adolescent Ps​ychiatry

Head, Academic Unit of Child Psychiatry (AUCS) and Clinical Academic, South West Sydney Local Health District

Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health/School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health

Australia

E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief

Uttara Chari

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, India

Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar Coordinator 

Prof. Dr. Christina Schwenck

Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen

Faculty 06 Psychology and Sports Science

Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10c

35394 Gießen

Germany

Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar Coordinator 

Petrus J de Vries, MD

Sue Struengmann Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 

Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health 
University of Cape Town 
46 Sawkins Road, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa

WHO Liaison

Prof. MD. MSc. Susanne Walitza

Chair / Director
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Psychiatric University Hospital
University of Zurich
Neumünsterallee 9
8032 Zürich
 

IACAPAP Executive Officer

Sue Wong

Malaysia