He is the current chair of the Section on Medicine Psychiatry and Primary Care for WPA. From 2010-2013 he was the psychiatric consultant to the Calif. Association of Family Practice. He published and presented nationally, on Depression in Primary Care and ADHD in primary Case. My paper, The Gold Medal Face of ADHD has been widely cited.

His more recent work has focused on Sport Psychiatry, Specifically Doping in Sports and Concussion.Over a decade ago, he established and chaired the Section on Exercise, Psychiatry and Sport for the WPA.

Nimmi Hutnik is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and an accredited cognitive behaviour therapist. She is also an academic with a doctorate from Oxford University She was Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the California School of Professional Psychology.

Nimmi Hutnik has recently launched a new course in CBT at London South Bank University: Advanced CBT Practice (Resilience and Positive Development). She has presented at a number of prestigious conferences in UK where she lives and practices.

Driss Moussaoui is professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine. In 1979,he founded and is still the chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca, Morocco, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health and Nerosciences since 1992. he was past-president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He was honoured as “Knight of Throne Wissam” of the Kingdom of Morocco in 1993 and he received the Prize of the President of Tunisia in Medicine in 1988.

The Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre is the only WHO collaborating centre in Morocco in clinical medicine. It is a centre of excellence which I am very proud of.

María Inés López-Ibor completed her PhD in 1994, at the age of 27, receiving that same year the Extraordinary Award of the Complutense University for the best doctoral thesis and specialized in Psychiarty in the year 2001. At present she is the Director of the Department of Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine of the Unversidad Complutense de Madrid.

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Brigitte Karcher has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Nice-Sophia Antipolis University. She was qualified by the CNU (National University Council ) in psychology the following year her thesis. She is now Associate Professor at Brest University School of Medicine since her 32 years.

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