Executive Committee Members
The IACAPAP Executive Committee comprises 25 officers from around the world. Officers do not represent their country or member organization, but serve as individuals.
MEMBERS OF THE BUREAU
Addressing the day-to-day affairs of the association

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
daniel_fung@imh.com.sg

Secretary General
Christina Schwenck PhD
Professor for Special Needs Educational and Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 C
35394 Gießen, Germany
christina.schwenck@psychol.uni-giessen.de

Treasurer
Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminars 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
petrus.devries@uct.ac.za

Past President
Bruno Falissard MD, PhD
Professor of Public Health, Université Paris-Sud.
Paris, France
bruno.falissard@gmail.com
HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Honorary President
Helmut Remschmidt, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
remschm@med.uni-marburg.de

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
myron_belfer@hms.harvard.edu
VICE PRESIDENTS

Vice President
Flora de la Barra, MD
Adjunct professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, East Medical Faculty, University of Chile
Chile
torbarra@gmail.com

Vice President
Tolulope Bella-Awusah MD
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan & Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University College Hospital Ibadan
Nigeria
bellatt2002@yahoo.com

Vice President (Facebook Page & Twitter account coordinator, Bulletin Editor)
Hesham Hamoda, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Children’s Hospital
USA
hesham.hamoda@childrens.harvard.edu

Vice President (Bulletin Deputy Editor)
Maite Ferrin MD, PhD
Spain
maiteferrin@yahoo.es

Vice President
Michal Goetz, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Charles University, Second Faculty of Medicine, Prague
Physician at the Department of Child Psychiatry, Motol University Hospital and at the Psychosomatic Clinic, Prague
Czech Republic
michal.goetz@lfmotol.cuni.cz

Vice President
Nicholas Mark Kowalenko, MD
University of Sydney
Sydney Childrens Hospital Network Randwick
Australia
Nicholas.Kowalenko@heath.nsw.gov.au

Vice President
Andrés Martin MD, MPH
Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor, Child Study Center
Director, Standardized Patient Program, Teaching and Learning Center, Yale School of Medicine
Medical Director, Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Service, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
230 South Frontage Road, NIHB 102a, New Haven, CT 06520-7900
USA
andres.martin@yale.edu

Vice President
Bung-Nyun Kim MD, PhD
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Medicine
Seoul National university Hospital & College of Medicine, Seoul National University
South Korea
kbn1@snu.ac.kr

Vice President
Kaija Puura, MD
Department of Child Psychiatry, Tampere University Arvo-building, 33014 Tampere
Tampere University Hospital Po Box 2000, 33521 Tampere
Finland
Kaija.Puura@pshp.fi
NON-ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Monograph Lead Editor
Matthew Hodes, MBBS, PhD, FRCPsych
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Imperial College London; Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
m.hodes@imperial.ac.uk

E-textbook Editor
Joseph M. Rey, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Sydney Medical School, Notre Dame University; Honorary Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
jmrey@bigpond.net.au

Donald Cohen Fellowship Program Coordinator
Ayesha Irshad Mian, MD
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
ayeshamian174@gmail.com

Donald Cohen Fellowship Program Coordinator
Naoufel Gaddour, MD
Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
naoufel.gaddour@gmail.com

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
susanne.walitza@pukzh.ch
NEW APPOINTMENT

Presidential Fellow for Global Education
Julie Chilton
Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center, USA
julie.chilton@yale.edu

Presidential Fellow for Global Fundraising
Liu Jing
Professor and Chief, Director of Mental Health Center for Children, Peking University Institute of Mental Health and Sixth, China
ljyuch@163.com

IACAPAP Councilor
Gordon Harper
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
Gordon_Harper@hms.harvard.edu

IACAPAP Councilor
Füsun Cetin Çuhadaroglu, MD
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hacettepe Univ. Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
fusuncuha@gmail.com

IACAPAP Councilor
Yi Zheng, MD
Director, Beijing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center
Professor, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
yizheng.c@hotmail.com