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The eTextbook Through the Eyes of Russian Psychiatrists

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You can access the textbook in English and other languages here.

‘The textbook pays much attention to non-drug interventions, which differs from the pharmacological approach traditional in Russian psychiatry’
The textbook is the first and only book available in Russian on the topic with current evidence-based medicine content. In my opinion the chapters devoted to developmental disorders, intellectual disabilities and autistic disorders will be of special interest to Russian specialists. The textbook pays much attention to non-drug interventions, which differs from the pharmacological approach traditional in Russian psychiatry. The textbook will be very useful for a wide range of different specialists in the sphere of children’s mental health care. Some misprints in the Russian version make reading it difficult at times but not unduly so.

Portnova Anna A. Doctor of Medical Science, Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Psychiatry. Main free-lance child psychiatrist of Moscow

‘Considering the dearth of scientific literature on child psychiatry in Russia, the Russian version of the IACAPAP textbook will be very useful’
The textbook is useful and helpful. It was written by reputed authors in different spheres of child psychiatry. Considering the dearth of scientific literature on child psychiatry in Russia, the Russian version of the IACAPAP textbook will be very useful. It offers our specialists the opportunity to get a bit closer to world standards. As a specialist in early childhood, I have some questions about the chapter “The Clinical Assessment of Infants, Preschoolers and Their Families”, but I acknowledge that it is very difficult to get the complete feel of an infant and present it in a scientific text.

Grechanyi Severin V. Doctor of Medical Science. Assistant Professor & Head of Department of Psychiatry and Narcology of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University.

‘I enjoyed the narrative style and the emphasis on key issues based on evidence principles and international standards’
The textbook covers a wide range of issues in child and adolescent psychiatry. Along with theoretical, social and legal aspects, there are many practical recommendations. I enjoyed the narrative style and the emphasis on key issues based on evidence principles and international standards. I am sure the Russian version will be very useful not only for psychiatrists, but for all specialists working with children, and for researchers.

Badmaeva Valentina D. Doctor of Medical Science, Head of Department of Social and Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology, Moscow.

‘I am very happy that now I have the option of recommending as one of the resources for the course a Russian version of the textbook’
I give a course at the Moscow State University (‘Disturbances of Development in Childhood and Adolescence’). I am very happy that now, thanks to my Ukrainian colleagues, I have the option of recommending as one of the resources for the course a Russian version of the textbook. Prior to 2019, when I recommended the textbook in English, only a few students used it and it took them much time and effort to read and translate it.

Rusakovskaya Olga A. Candidate of Medical Science; Assistant Professor of the Department of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.

‘This textbook is a wake-up call to change entrenched views; to take a new look at what is normal and pathological in childhood’
I can read English but, certainly, it is much easier for me to read Russian. That is why I was very glad when the textbook was translated. I like the textbook very much. Firstly, it is on my list of favorite child and adolescent psychiatry resources. Secondly, the textbook is well structured and covers comprehensively and in an up to date form the main aspects of all mental and developmental disorders in childhood. Thirdly, it is nicely presented and makes sense of the philosophy of childhood. For me this textbook is a wake-up call to change entrenched views, to take a new look at what is normal and pathological in childhood. I am sure it will come home to every child psychiatrist speaking Russian.

Volodenkova Elena A. Candidate of Medical Science; Head of the Department of Child psychiatry of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Psychoneurologic Dispensary #1, Main free-lance child psychiatrist of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Healthcare Ministry

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Dr Daniel Fung is married to Joyce and the father of 5 grown up children. He is currently the Chairman Medical Board of Singapore’s Institute of Mental Health since 2011. Dr Fung is an Adjunct Associate Professor at all 3 medical schools in Singapore.

Dr Fung is currently the President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions. He was awarded the National Day (Public Service Administration (Bronze)) Award in 2017 and the National Medical Excellence Award (Team) in 2018 for his work on community and school based mental health.

Dr Fung is interested in the treatment of emotional and behavioural disorders in children and he has advocated for the development of child mental health services and strategies through his research

Dr Fung’s research is supported by the National Medical Research Council and other agencies. He has co-authored over 160 peer reviewed research papers (118), books (32) and book chapters(18).


Dr. Christina Schwenck is professor for Special Needs Educational and Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. She is a trained child and adolescent psychotherapist (specification behavior therapy) and a trained supervisor. Her research interests comprise selective mutism, conduct disorder, and children of parents with mental illness. She has published 56 articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters on childhood mental health. She is editor of three book series on child and adolescent psychotherapy, psychology in school and psychotherapeutic children´s books. In her free time, she follows her passion for photography around the globe.

Dr. Schwenck is currently the Secretary General of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). Her vision is to strengthen training and promotion of child and adolescent mental health professionals, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, including long-term mentorships for early career scientists and clinicians in this important field. Furthermore, she aims at alluring allied professions for IACAPAP to enhance active collaboration between professions in order to provide optimal supply for children and adolescents with mental health problems.


Dr. Andrés Martin is the Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor at the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, CT, USA. A native of Mexico City, he obtained his MD from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and trained in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals. He obtained his MPH in chronic disease epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health, and is currently a PhD candidate in medical education at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands.

Dr. Martin has been affiliated with IACAPAP since 2004, when he helped coordinate the first Donald J. Cohen Mentorship Program in Berlin. For the next ten years he co-led the Program with Dr. Joaquín Fuentes from Spain, before passing on the leadership responsibility to younger colleagues (and Program alumni) Ayesha Mian from Pakistan and Naoufel Gaddour from Tunisia.

Dr. Martin is editor emeritus of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, past editor of the IACAPAP Bulletin, and since 2018, co-editor of J.M. Rey’s IACAPAP e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Together with Drs. Matías Irarrázabal from Chile and Joaquín Fuentes from Spain, he coordinated the first complete translation of the e-Textbook, into Spanish.

Currently a Vice-president of IACAPAP (for North and Latin America), Dr. Martin also serves as the Association’s liaison to its flagship scholarly outlet, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.


After receiving B.A. at College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Dr. Kim BN received both M.A. and Ph.D. at Graduate School of Medicine, Seoul National University.

Since 2002, he has been a Professor at College of Medicine, Seoul National University and has been working as the division director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital.

His main fields of research include brain imaging, genetic & environmental studies of Neurodevelopmental Disorders including ADHD, ASD and Tic disorders. He has published 157 peer reviewed articles in SCI-International Journals & 62 articles in Korean Journals. He has also taken charge of some public mental heath research & educational programs for governmental mental health system and policy development for children & adolescents.

From 2009 to 2011, he spent 2 years in Queensland Brain Institute & Child Trauma Center, Kids in Mind, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia as a visiting professor, and he extended his sincere interest to the psychiatry community, school based mental health & social psychiatry for youngsters. Since returning to Korea, he has actively engaged himself in several social acts. He has served as the chairperson of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism, and he has collaborated with the Korean government including the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Justice.

He also participates actively in the KACAP and is working as a director of academic affairs, a director of international affairs, and he is contributing to international associations as a full member of Executive Committee member of IACAPAP & ASCAPAP.

Current Positions
– Professor, Department of Psychiatry (Child & Adolescent) College of Medicine, Seoul National University
– Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital
– Director, ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Translational Research Center
– Director, Emotion & Quality of Life Center, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital.
– Vice President, IACAPAP


After some initial training in mathematics and fundamental physics (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Bruno Falissard engaged in medical studies and specialized in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1991. His PhD was in biostatistics and his post doc in psychometrics and exploratory multimensional methods. He was assistant professor in child and adolescent psychiatry in 1996-1997 and full professor in Public health from 2002.

He is at the head of the “Center of research in Epidemiology and Population Health” (500 members). He is co-author of about 400 papers and author of 4 books. He has a clinical activity in child and adolescent psychiatry. His personal areas of research are about methodology and epistemology of mental health research. He was president of IACAPAP (International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions) from 2015 to 2018, and he is a member of the French Academy of Medicine.


Joseph M. Rey, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, has worked helping children, teenagers and their families for more than 30 years. As director of Sydney’s Rivendell Unit, he contributed to the introduction of systematic assessment and the delivery of treatment packages for specific disorders in Australian child psychiatric practice.

As director of child and adolescent mental health services in Northern Sydney, he established a comprehensive and integrated child and adolescent mental health service. He has been conjoint professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Sydney and professor of psychiatry at Notre Dame University Medical School Sydney.

Dr Rey has published more than 200 research and educational papers as well as several books in areas as disparate as depression, alternative treatments, epidemiology, diagnosis, disruptive behaviour disorders, marijuana use, and ECT, to name a few. For his contribution to the IACAPAP Bulletin and the IACAPAP e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, he was presented the IACAPAP Medal in 2012 and the International Contribution Award in 2014.


Kaija Puura, M.D., Ph.D is Professor of Child Psychiatry in Tampere University, Finland, and Chief of Child Psychiatry in Tampere University Hospital. She has authored or co-authored over 80 peer reviewed articles, and chapters in both national and international books on assessment and treatment of young children, and is an Associate Editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal.

Her research interests cut across the following areas: gene-environment interplay in social and emotional development of young children; emotion regulation and shared pleasure and joy in parent-child interaction; development of digitalized services for families with young children and use of virtual reality as a part of child psychiatric treatment. She is a member of the Finnish Child Psychiatric Association, and of the World Association for Infant Mental Health.

She received the WAIMH New Investigator Award (2002), was appointed Associate Executive Director of the WAIMH 2009, and Executive Director of WAIMH 2018. In July 2018 Professor Puura became Vice President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions.


Dr Maite Ferrin obtained her medical degree at the University of Navarra, Spain, before completing her MSc (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) and PhD (Neuroscience) research at King’s College London and the University of Granada respectively.

Dr Ferrin has been a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist since 2006, specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry and with a special interest in neurodevelopmental conditions.

She has lead psychoeducation projects for patients with ADHD and ASC, their families and their teachers in both Spain and London. She has sat on the European ADHD Guidelines Group (EAGG, Eunethydis) and is part of the Steering Committee for the ADHD Continuum European project since 2010.

Dr Ferrin is also active in research, with more than 40 international peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on ADHD, ASD and Early Onset Psychosis to her name. She is a peer reviewer for several international child and adolescent psychiatry journals, Deputy Editor of the IACAPAP Bulletin, and Vice President of IACAPAP.


Myron L. Belfer, MD, MPA is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School. He is on the Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard Center for the Developing Child. Dr. Belfer led the child mental health program at the WHO from 2000 to 2005 where he developed the child mental health Atlas. He is past-President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP).

He founded Boston Children’s Hospital Global Child Mental Health Observership Program and directed for the Harvard Center on the Developing Child a comprehensive child mental health needs assessment in schools in Shanghai with Chinese colleagues. He was a consultant to the Temasek Foundation (Singapore) project on child mental health capacity building for disaster response in Indonesia. For the IOM and WHO he worked in Thailand and Indonesia after the tsunami.

His current interest is in building global mental health capacity. The latter currently involves the development of a comprehensive child mental health program in Shenzhen, China. As a clinician he worked closely with plastic and reconstructive surgeons on understanding the development of body image in children.


“I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist, my pre and post graduate training (1966-1973) was in the University of Chile. Later I did short post graduate training visits at the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley and Bethlem Royal hospitals in London and North Shore University and Bellevue hospitals in New York.

I am now retired from my clinical practice after seeing patients and their families for 50 years, 18 of which were in the public health sector and 31 in a private hospital where I founded the child and adolescent psychiatric unit.

I have always been interested in public health, and formed part of the staff in the Mental Health Department of the Ministry of Health when we recovered democracy, in charge of designing and implementing the Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the Child Maltreatment programs.

I am adjunct professor at the Eastern Medical Faculty of the University of Chile since 1975, where I have been involved mainly in postgraduate teaching in mental health, but also of paediatricians, teachers and professionals working with children, as well as psychoeducation for parents and the community in every opportunity available. My line of research has been child psychiatric epidemiology in schoolchildren and in the community as well as child abuse. I have published more than 80 papers and book chapters.

I belong to the Chilean scientific associations of Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry and of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, which have awarded me the utmost distinctions a professional can receive, that is from the peers. I also belong to the Pediatrics and Mental Health Chilean associations, The AACAP from USA and ACAMH from the UK. I am very grateful for all the information I receive and use permanently from all the institutions I have mentioned.

I have always admired IACAPAP´s work in disseminating knowledge about mental health and helping to train specialists in the field. However, living so far away at the southern end of Latin America, I have not been able to attend meetings in a regular basis.
I see my role in IACAPAP in two areas:
1.- further connecting Chilean and Latin American professionals with opportunities for continuous training and professionals from different parts of the world and
2.- Enhancing visibility of the contributions that this region of the world can do for global child and adolescent mental health.

In that direction I suggest that, if any member of IACAPAP wants to know about mental health in Chile, he or she can open the link de la Barra F, Irarrazaval M, Valdes A, Soto-Brandt G. Evolving child and adolescent mental health and development programs
in Chile. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2019; 43: e33. https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2019.33.”

Flora de la Barra, MD


“My main scientific activities and interests are: Developmental Psychopathology, Forensic Psychiatry, Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia Research, Psychiatric Genetics, Treatment- and Evaluation Research.

I invested plenty of time and energy in measures for the qualification of young researchers and founded together with Martin Schmidt (Mannheim) Research Seminars, that I consecutively transferred to the European and International level. The international Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) has named them now as Helmut-Remschmidt-Research-Seminars.

In 2004 I founded the Donald Cohen Fellowship Program for young researchers, a biannual program integrated into the IACAPAP World Congresses.

Another important engagement was devoted to therapeutic training and education of physicians and psychologists working in the field of Child- and Adolescent Mental Health. In 1981 I founded a training seminar for Child- and Family Therapy at the Philipps University Marburg, continued now as the “Institute for Behaviour Therapy and Behavioral Medicine”. Together with my co-workers I carried out several treatment projects and developed quite a number of instruments for treatment evaluation, now widely used in Germany and in Europe.

Finally, it was always my intention to internationalize German Child- and Adolescent-Psychiatry. Through my engagement in international Research Societies I was able to organize the Congress of the European Society for Child- and Adolescent-Psychiatry (ESCAP) in Germany (Hamburg 1999) as well as the World Congress of the International Association for Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) (Berlin 2004).” – Helmut Remschmidt, MD, PhD

Publications:
Editor and former Editor of several scientific Journals in the field of Child Mental Health, Psychiatry and Criminology. More than 400 article in peer reviewed Journals and books. Member of the Editorial Board of more than 30 Journals.

Association Name (English)
Chinese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Association Name (in native language)
中国儿童青少年精神医学学会

Acronym
CSCAP

Country
China

About the association
The Chinese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CSCAP) established in 1989, is a professional organization for child and adolescent psychiatrists in China. Its mission is to promote the academic communication and cooperation among professionals in the field of child and adolescent mental health and to improve the development of child and adolescent psychiatry and mental Health of children and adolescents in China. Since establishment, it has been attracting more and more professionals related with child and adolescent mental health and provides a platform for child and adolescent psychiatrists and allied professionals to share, communicate and cooperate in the field of prevention, clinical service and research of child and adolescent mental disorders. It also improves the international communication and cooperation in the field of child and adolescent mental health. All of these have promoted the development of child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health of child and adolescents in China.

Key appointment holders
Yi Zheng, MD, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Contact Information
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Association Name (English)
Malaysian Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Association

Association Name (in native language)
Persatuan Psikiatri Kanak-Kanak Dan Remaja Malaysia

Acronym
MYCAPS

About the association
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Key appointment holders
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Graduated from the 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University Prague in 1997; his Ph.D. in Psychopathology he obtained at 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University Prague. Michal Goetz is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Charles University, Second Faculty of Medicine in Prague, he works as a physician at the Department of Child Psychiatry, Motol University Hospital and at the Psychosomatic Clinic in Prague. He is a member of the International Relationships committee and of the Programme Committee of the American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, an elected member of the board in the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Czech Psychiatric Association and a member of the Council of the Ministry of Health, Czech Republic for the reform of Psychiatry. Dr. Goetz as a principal investigator and co-investigator obtained national peer reviewed research grants on offspring of parents with bipolar disorder, on ADHD and preterm born infants. Dr. Goetz authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters. He was a leading author for ADHD treatment guidelines published by Czech Psychiatric Association. He is a member of editorial boards of pediatric and mental health scientific journals. He was fortunate to have had observerships at Boston Children’s Hospital and at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In 2016, he spent time as a visiting professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. In July 2018 Dr. Goetz became Vice President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions.


Per-Anders Rydelius (MD., Ph.D.) is a Professor Emeritus of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. He has practiced as a clinician in CAP first in Umeå and from 1972 – 2020 in Stockholm, working with all the different aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry but during the last 20 years mainly supporting children and youth with Gender Dysphoria. His research interest covers aspects of developmental psychopathology. In 1981 he defended his thesis: “Children of alcoholic fathers – Their social adjustment and their health status over 20 years”. 1989-2012 he was professor/chairman of CAP at the Karolinska Institutet and was from 2012-2019 Senior Professor of CAP. 2000-2006 he was “Prefekt” (Dean) of the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the Karolinska Institutet. 2005 – 2013 he was a member of the Swedish Research Council for the assessment of research applications in Psychiatry/Neurology. He has been a visiting researcher/guest professor at the The programme on juvenile delinquency, the Chicago South Neighbourhoods, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston Mass. USA, at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Developmental clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Nagoya University, Japan, at the Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China and at The Karlstad University in Sweden. 2006-2010 he was President of IACAPAP and from 2006 he has been one of the coordinators for the HRRS-seminars. 2010-2018 he was IACAPAP’s member of the WHO’s Advisory Group for the revision of ICD-10-ICD-11. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. exams and 5 Lic.Med.Sci-exams and has published more than 200 articles and chapters in peer reviewed scientific journals, other journals and textbooks.


FÜSUN ÇUHADAROĞLU was graduated from Hacettepe School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, and had her training in general psychiatry and then in child and adolescent psychiatry in the same institution. Then she did a fellowship in adolescent psychiatry in Edinbourgh (1988)and research fellowship in Boston (2002) affliated with the Fogarty International MH-DD Program of NIMH where she also served as a mentor till 2015.

She and her collagues established CAP as a separate branch of medicine in Turkey with a 5-year training program (1990), founded the Turkish Association for CAP (1991) and published the first Textbook of CAP in Turkish (2008)

She was involved in international programs affliated with WHO , including the development of CAP training program in Albania as well as being a member of
the International Committee of AACAP.

She worked in the Board of ESCAP and ran the Policy Division between 2011-2019, also leading the program for the development of policy programs in member countries and she has been the general secretary of IACAPAP between 2014-2018.

She organized the 18. World Congress of IACAPAP (2008) and Regional Congress of ISAPP (2013).

She is the recipient of the AACAP’s Ulku Ulgur, M.D.,International Scholar Award and IACAPAP Medal.

Her field of interest is development, mental health and psychiatric problems of adolescents where she published more than 100 papers and chapters and books in Turkish and in English.

She is currently the vice president in ISAPP and Concilor in IACAPAP.


Gordon Harper MD trained as a paediatrician and child psychiatrist in Boston. He worked in acute hospital care for several decades and then worked in public-sector child mental health, as Medical Director for Child/Adolescent Services for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, in addition providing frequent consultation to the child protection system in Massachusetts, the Department of Children and Families. He has also served as Treasurer of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). He holds academic appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has taught widely internationally. He has written on inpatient treatment, medical education, healthcare policy, care planning, and managing the ambiguities of child protection.


Dr. Nick Kowalenko is a Vice President IACAPAP and Oceania Coordinator. He is Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Sydney and Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network in Psychological Medicine. As Chair, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry International Relations Committee, he leads Asia/Pacific mental health initiatives and is also Deputy Chair, RANZCP Pacific Steering Group. He is a Zero to Three International Faculty Member for DC: 0-5 Training, and a member of the Prato International Research Collaborative in Family Mental Health. He is a Senior Clinical Advisor to the Australian National Workforce Centre for Children’s Mental Health (0-12 years), led by Emerging Minds www.emergingminds.com.au and is a member of the Australian National Child Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy Expert Working Group.

His publications span his interests in multi-disciplinary mental health workforce development, global mental health, translational research and practice, information development, early intervention, digital innovation for mental health and family focussed preventive interventions.


Dr Tolulope Bella – Awusah obtained her medical degree from the University of Ibadan Nigeria and Fellowship in Psychiatry from the West African College of Physicians. She has a Master of Science degree in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Head Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University College Hospital Ibadan, and Acting Head, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health University of Ibadan Nigeria.

She is passionate about improving the mental health of infants, children, adolescents and women and works as a leader of multidisciplinary teams of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) professionals in the sectors of Health and Education. Her research interests include school mental health, psychosocial treatments and mood disorders.

Dr Tolulope Bella – Awusah holds a number of International positions including President, African Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (AACAMH), and Vice President International Association for Child and adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP).


Matthew Hodes works as Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Westminster Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, in Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London. His research interests include: cultural and migration influences on mental health in young people, the interface between physical and mental health, and evidence-based treatments in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders especially depression and anxiety disorders. In recent years, clinical work has been with young people with depression and anxiety disorders, and he has leadership roles in the development of pathways and innovations in treatment for these disorders.

Matthew has carried out research and taught at Imperial College London over many years, and supervised numerous research dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been active in specialist training in child and adolescent psychiatry internationally and across the UK. This work has included the development of national curricula and the implementation of training across London.

Matthew has published approximately 100 papers and chapters. He is Lead Editor for the IACAPAP Monographs, and has co-edited four books in this series. Since 2017 they have been available by open access on the IACAPAP website.


Dr. Hesham Hamoda is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He completed Psychiatry residency training and a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He also holds a master-degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in Global Health. He has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) where he lead the development of a school mental health program for the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

At IACAPAP he has served two terms as a Vice President and a term as a Presidential Fellow. He is also the Bulletin Editor and manages social media accounts for IACAPAP.