Scientific Committee for 3rd world congress
Executive of Scientific Committee
Goffredo BARTOCCI (Italy) Hon President of Congress & President of WACP
Kamaldeep BHUI (UK) President of Congress & Chair of Scientific Committee
Wen-Shing TSENG (USA) Hon President of Congress & Hon President of WACP
Co-Chairs of Executive of Scientific Committee (& Chairs of WACP Affiliated Organisations)
Rizkar AMIN (UK)
Goffredo BARTOCCI (Italy)
Rachid BENNEGADI (France)
Jim BOENHLEIN (USA)
Laurence J KIRMAYER (Canada)
Eckhardt KOCH (Germany)
Wielant MACHLEIDT (Germany)
Fumitaka NODA (Japan)
Marcos de NORONHA (Brazil)
Valentin SEMKE (Russia)
Marcel TANNER (Switzerland)
Sergio J Villaseñor-Bayardo (Mexico)
Xudong ZHAO (China)
International Organising Committee & Scientific Committee
Renarto D ALARCON (USA)
Goffredo BARTOCCI (Italy)
Kamaldeep BHUI (UK)
James BOEHNLEIN (USA)
Ahmed EL-DOSOKY (Egypt)
Laurence KIRMAYER (Canada)
Sung-Kil MIN (Korea)
Harry MINAS (Australia)
Seggane MUSISI (Uganda)
Fumitaka NODA (Japan)
Néstor de la Portilla Geada (Venezuela)
Ragu RAGURAM (India)
Richard RECHTMAN (France)
Valentin SEMKE (Russia)
Sergio J. WILLASEŇOR-BAYARDO (Mexico)
Mitchel WEISS (Switzerland)
Ron WINTROB (USA)
Xudong ZHAO (China)
Scientific Committee
Melanie ABAS (UK)
Walid ABDUL-HAMID (UK)
Morton BEISER (Canada)
Joeseba ACHOTEGUI (Spain)
Mohan AGASHE (India)
Iqbal AHMAD (USA)
Tsuyoshi AKIYAMA (Japan)
Riyadh AL-BALDAWI (Sweden)
Imran ALI (UK)
Micol Ascoli (UK)
Deji AYONRINDE (UK & Nigeria)
Morton BEISER (Canada)
Pat BRACKEN (Ireland)
Haroon Rashid CHAUDHRY (UK & Bangladesh)
Arabinda CHOWDHURY (UK & Bangladesh)
Tom CRAIG (UK)
Simon DEIN (UK)
Franklin Escobar-Córdobar (COLUMBIA)
Joop DE JONG (Netherlands)
Marianne KASTRUPP (Denmark)
Joan KOSS-CHIOINO (USA)
Marcos DE NOHONHA (Brazil)
Sokratis DINOS (UK)
Solvig EKBLAD (Sweden)
Armando FAVAZZA (USA)
Seeromanie HARDING (UK)
Edvard HAUFF (Norway)
David HENDERSON (USA)
Fred HICKLING (Jamaica)
Andrew HORNBLOW (New Zealand)
Yueqin HUANG (China)
Nusrat HUSAIN (UK)
Madelyn HICKS (UK)
Mathew HODES (UK)
Jing HSU (USA)
Sunday ILECHUKWA (USA)
David INGLEBY (Netherlands)
Afzal JAVED (UK & Pakistan)
Louise JILEK-AALL (USA)
Peter JONES (UK)
Eckhardt KOCH (Germany)
Robert KOHN (USA)
Ania KORSZUN (UK)
Irina Evgeyvana KUPRIYANOVA (Russia)
Cornelis Kees LABAN (Netherlands)
Frederick LEONG (USA)
Paul LEUNG (USA)
Russell LIM (USA)
Roland LITTLEWOOD (UK)
Jose LOPEZ RODAS (Peru)
Julian LEFF (UK)
Francis LU (USA)
Victor MARTEL (Mexico)
Kwame MCKENZIE (Canada)
Dan MKIZE (South Africa)
Kei NAKUMARA (Japan)
David NDETEI (Kenya)
Roger NG (Hong Kong & China)
Samuel NOH (Canada)
Sam OKPAKU (USA)
Yemi OLOYEDE (UK)
Vikram PATEL (UK & India)
Adil QURESHI (Spain)
Hans ROHLOF (Netherlands)
Stephen STANSFELD (UK)
Thomas STOMPE (Austria)
Jon STRELTZER (USA)
Alan SWANN (USA)
Meryam SCHULER-OCAK (Germany & Turkey)
Eng-Seong TAN (Australia)
Anil Thapiyal (New Zealand)
Phil THOMAS (UK)
Samson TSE (Hong Kong)
Waquas WAHEED (UK)
Nasir WARFA (UK & Somalia)
Congress Advisors
Mohamed FAKHIR-EL-ISLAM (Egypt)
Wolfgang JILEK (Canada
Masahisha NISHOZONO (Japan)
Raymond PRINCE (Canada)
Joseph WESTERMEYER (USA)
Ron WINTROB (USA)
Local Organising Committee
Chair: Kamaldeep Bhui
Co-Chairs: Simon DEIN & Micol ASCOLI
Nasir WARFA (UK & Somalia)
Albert PERSAUD (UK)
Dinesh BHUGRA (UK)
Deji AYONRINDE (UK & Nigeria)
Lisa KASS (UK)
Amarjit SAGOO (UK)
Sokratis DINOS (UK)
Rizkar AMIN (UK)
Imran ALI (UK)
Affiliated and Sponsoring Organisations
Associaçã Brasileira De Etnopsiquitria
Chair: Marcos de Noronha (Brazil)
Transcultural Psychiatry Section, Canadian Psychiatric Association
Chair: Laurence J Kirmayer (Canada)
Ethnic-Cultural Psychiatry Division, Chinese Society of Psychiatry & Chinese Medical Association
Chair: ZHAO Xudong (China)
Centre Françoise Minkowska
Chair: Rachid Bennegadi (France)
Deutsh-Tűrkische Gesellschaft fur Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und psychoxoziale Gesundheit (DGTP)
Chair: Eckhardt Koch (Germany)
Transkulturelle Psychiatric und Migranten Referat – Duetsche Gesellschaft fűr Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde
Chair: Wielant Machleidt (Germany)
Istituto Italiano de Igiene Mentale Transculturale - IMT
Chair: Goffredo Bartocci (Italy)
The Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry – JSTP
Chair: Fumitaka Noda (Japan)
Grupo Latino Americano de Estudios Transculturales (GLADET)
Chair: Sergio J Villaseñor-Bayardo (Mexico)
International Association of Ethnopsychologists and Ethnopsychotherapists
Chair: Valentin Semke (Russia)
Swiss Tropical Institute
Chair: Rizkar Amin (UK)
The Society for the Study of Psychiaty and Culture
Chair: Jim Boehnlein (USA)
Trainee Committee
Kamran Ahmed (Chair)
Wojtek Woycik (Vice-Chair)
Kate Adlington
John Bainton
Liz Cosgrove
Tiago Gandra
Ros Humphreys
Anna Lenardon
Manonmani Manhoharan
Pany Petrochilos