Executive Committee Members (2022 - 2026)
The IACAPAP Executive Committee comprises 27 officers from around the world. Officers do not represent their country or member organisation, but serve as individuals.
MEMBERS OF THE BUREAU
Addressing the day-to-day affairs of the association
President
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Director
ADHD Program
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
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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
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Treasurer
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
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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
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HONORARY PRESIDENTS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Honorary President
Helmut Remschmidt, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Helmut.Remschmidt@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
President, Emirates Society for Child and Adolescent Mental Health,
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Head of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center-of-Excellence
Al Jalila Children’s Speciality Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry,
Mohamed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE
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Vice President
Consultant Psychiatrist and Director, Mental Health Care Centre, Burdwan and Kolkata, India
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Vice President
Assoc Professor (part-time), Harvard Medical School Psychiatry, United States
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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
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Vice President
Koroma Mohamed James, M.Sc., (CAMH)
Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone (Department of Specialised Nursing).
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Vice President
Professor and Chief, Director of Mental Health Center for Children, Peking University Institute of Mental Health and Sixth, China
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Vice President
(Bulletin Deputy Editor)
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Honorary Clinical Lecturer
United Kingdom
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Vice President
(Henrikje Klasen iCAMH Training Program Coordinator)
University of Sydney
Sydney Childrens Hospital Network Randwick
Australia
nicholas.kowalenko@health.nsw.gov.au
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Vice President
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
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NON-ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Director of Communication
Hesham Hamoda, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Children’s Hospital
USA
hesham.hamoda@childrens.harvard.edu
Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar Coordinator
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
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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
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Early Career Group Coordinator
Gazi University School of Medicine
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Neuroscience
Turkey
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Early Career Group Coordinator
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Children’s Hospital Westmead
Sydney Children’s Hospital Network
Australia
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E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief
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
john-joe.dawson-squibb@uct.ac.za
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E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief
Professor of Psychiatry
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
South Korea
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E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief
Valsamma Eapen MBBS., PhD., FRCPsych., FRANZCP
Chair, Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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
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E-Textbook Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, India
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MOOC Coordinator
Bruno Falissard MD, PhD
Professor of Public Health, Université Paris-Sud.
Paris, France
bruno.falissard@gmail.com
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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
