Prof. Ahmed OKASHA MD, PhD., FRCP, FRCPsych, F.A.C.P PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY, FOUNDER AND EMERITUS CHAIRMAN- INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY DIRECTOR OF WHO COLLABORATING CENTER FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN MENTAL HEALTH, INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY- AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY, CAIRO. PRESIDENT OF EGYPTIAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE ARAB FEDERATION OF PSYCHIATRISTS PRESIDENT WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION 2002- 2005
World Psychiatric Association Positions
. President of World Psychiatric Association 2002 – 2005 . Chairperson of the Presidential WPA program on Global Child Mental Health 2002 – 2005 . Chairman of the WPA Stigma program 2002 – 2005 . Chairman of WPA Program to promote Mental Health Services in SubSaharan 1999 - 2002 Africa and Central Asia . Chairman of WPA Program for Post-graduate Curriculum, Psychiatry 1999 - 2002 . President-Elect (Vice President) of World Psychiatric Association 1999 – 2002 . Chairman of Ethics' Committee of WPA 1993 - 2002 . Chairperson of Section of Public Policy and Psychiatry 1993 - 1999 . Secretary for Sections, World Psychiatric Association 1993 - 1999 . Honorary fellow of WPA 2005 . Chairman of WPA Review Committee 2008 -2011 . Chairman of WPA Review and Ethics Committee 2011-2014
World Health Organization Positions and Activities
. Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental 1990 - present Health, Okasha Institute of Psychiatry, Cairo . Member of the advisory panel in Mental Health- WHO - Geneva 1981 – present . Director of ICD-10 field studies in Eastern Mediterranean WHO 1990 - 1999 . Member of the Advisory Board of ICD - 11, Geneva 2005
National and International Positions and Activities
. Head of Psychiatric unit- Ain shams University 1966 – 1990 . Chairman of Okasha Institute of Psychiatry- Ain shams University 1990 – 1995 . Member of the Board of Seniors (El Hokamaa)- Ain Shams University 2009- Present . Member of the National Board of trustees – Zewail City of Science 2010- Present and Technology . Member of the Supreme Council for Culture 2012- Present . Chairman of Neuropsychiatry Department – Ain Shams University 1990 - 1995 . Chairman of the Committee of promoting Professors and assistant 2008 -2012 Professors of Psychiatry of the supreme council of Egyptian Universities . President of the Egyptian Board of Psychiatry. High Committee of 2002 – Present medical specialties. Ministry of Health and population. . Vice President of the International Academy of Psychotherapy and Behavioral 1996 - present Medicine, Colorado USA . President of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association 1981 – 1999 2006 - Present . President of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists 1993 – 1996 2008 - 2010 . Honorary President of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists 2010 - 2013 . Member of the National Council of Addiction Fund . President of the Biological Psychiatry Society, World Federation of Biological 1989 - present Psychiatry . Member of the High Court of Ethics - Egypt 1990 - 1993 . Member of the Scientific Committee of the Higher Council for Addressing 1992 - present Narcotics in Egypt . President of the Franco-Egyptian Psychiatric Association 1986 - 2002 . Consultant to H/E the Egyptian Minister of Justice in Forensic Psychiatry 1984 – 1996 . Member of Executive Committee of CIOMS ( Council For International 2007 - 2010 Organizations of Medical Sciences) (WHO + UNESCO)
Awards . Honorary Doctorate in Medical education (Luzanne) 2000 . Presidential commendation of American Psychiatric Association 2006 . Honorary fellow of World Psychiatric Association 2005 . Honorary member of Czech Psychiatric Association 2004 . Awarded the golden Medal of IACAPAP 2004 (International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions) 2012 . Awarded Kraeplin – Alzheimer Medal, Munich University . Awarded the Honorary fellowship of the American College of Psychiatrists 2001 . Distinguished International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association 1983 . Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin.) 1974 . Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London) 1974 . Fellow of the French Medico Psychological society 1984 . Awards from the Egyptian Academy of Science 2000 جائزة الدولت في اإلبداع الطبي . The State award for Creativity in Medicine 2007 جائزة الدولت التقديريت في العلوم الطبيت The State merit prize of Medical Sciences 2010 جائزة النيل )مبارك( في العلوم الطبيت El Nil (Mubarak) award for Medical Sciences 2013 وسام العلوم والفنون من الدرجت األولى (The Medal of Science and Art (First Degree
Editorial Posts
. Founder and Honorary Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Psychiatry . Chief of Board of Journal of Current Psychiatry, Cairo – Egypt . Chief of Board of the official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) in Arabic Language
Editorial Board Member of
. American Medical Association Journal Middle East . Arab Journal of Psychiatry (Jordan) Honorary Editor . Archives of Neurology, (Middle East) . Editorial Chief Archives of Psychiatry, (Middle East) . British Journal of Psychiatry (UK) (1992-1997)
. Current Opinion in Psychiatry (London) . Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery . Italian Journal of Psychiatry (Italy) . Journal of Psychiatry, Neurology and Brain Research (Germany) . L’Encephale (France) . Mental Health Economics (Italy) . Psicophathologica (Spain) . Editorial Board Acta Nueropsychiatrica . Regional editor of World Journal of Biological Psychiatry for Africa and Middle East
Publications . Supervised 82 MD theses and 147 Master Theses . Published 245 original articles in national and international journals . Author of 56 books in the field of psychiatry and psychology in both the Arabic and English languages including two textbooks in Arabic and English, 36 books published abroad.
Chapters in International Books:
1. "SUICIDE IN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST" Ed. Lee A. Headley (California Press), 1983. 2. "INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION IN PSYCHIATRY" Eds. Mezzich et al (Cambridge Press), 1990. 3. "INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY SERIES "Eds. Mezzich et al (American Press), 1993. 4. "INTERPERSONAL FACTORS IN THE ORIGIN AND COURSE OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS". Eds. Mundt et al . The Royal College of Psychiatrists. UK, 1996. 5. "SOMATOFORM DISORDERS, (SOMATOFORM IN THE ARAB WORLD)" Eds. Maj et al - Spinger, 1999. 6. "PREVENTION OF PSYCHIATRY" (DEONTOLOGICAL MISTAKES IN THE ETHICS OF PSYCHIATRY) Eds. Christodoulou et al. Elsevier, 2001 7. "PSYCHIATRY" Eds. Allan Tasman – John Wiley, 2003 8. "CENTURY OF PSYCHIATRY" , Ed. Hugh Freeman. Mosby and Wolfe, 1999 9. "DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS" Eds. Maj et al . John Wiley and Sons. Volume 1. 1999 10. "SCHIZOPHRENIA" Eds. Sartorius et al John Wiley and Sons. .Volume 2. 1999 11. "THE OVERLAP OF AFFECTIVE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRA" Eds. Marneros et al Cambridge University Press, 2007 12. "CULTURE AND MENTAL HEALTH, A COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK" Eds. Bhui et al. Hodder Arnold , 2007 13. "OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHIATRY" Eds. Fullford et al. 2006 14. "OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF SUICIDOLOGY " Eds. Wesserman et al. 2009 15. "SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION" Eds. Haroon Rashid Chaudry et al, 2009 16. "RELIGION AND PSYCHIATRY: BEYOND BOUNDARIES" Eds. Peter Verhagen et al, Wiley Knowledge for Generations, 2010. 17. “WARS, INSURGENCIES AND TERRORIST ATTACKS: A PSYCHO- SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD" Ed. Unaiza Niaz, John Wiley & Sons, 2011. 18. “THE EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE (IMPACT FACTOR 2007 3.010)" Ed. Jurgen Zelasek, John Wiley & Sons, 2010. 19. " COERCIVE TREATMENT IN PSYCHIATRY- CLINICAL, LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS", Eds: Thomas Kallert et al, John Wiley & Sons ,2011
Editor of Books in English:
1. Clinical Psychiatry, 1986, Dar El Khotob 2. Okasha Clinical Psychiatry, 1988, Anglo Egyptian Bookshop 3. ICD-10 CASE BOOKS", Eds. Okasha et al. American Psychiatric Press, 1996. 4. "OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER" Eds. Okasha et al .WPA Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry –Volume 4 John Wiley and Sons. 2002 5. "ETHICS, CULTURE AND PSYCHIATRY", Eds. Okasha et al .American Psychiatric Press 2000 6. "IMAGES IN PSYCHIATRY- THE ARAB WORLD", Eds. Okasha et al . WPA Series, The Scientific Publishing House ,2001 7. "PSYCHIATRY IN SOCIETY" Eds. Okasha et al . John Wiley and Sons, 2003 8. "PHOBIAS", Eds. Okasha et al .WPA Series Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry Volume 7. – John Wiley and Sons., 2004 9. "PERSONALITY DISORDERS" Volume 8 in the WPA Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry”, Eds. Okasha et al .2004. 10. "FAMILIES AND MENTAL DISORDERS FROM BURDEN TO EMPOWERMENT" Eds. Okasha et al. – John Wiley and Sons , 2005 11. "EARLY DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS". Eds. Okasha et al .John Wiley and Sons , 2005 12. "DISASTERS AND MENATL HEALTH" Eds. Okasha et al .John Wiley and Sons, 2005. 13. "SOMATOFORM DISORDERS" , Eds. Okasha et al .John Wiley and Sons, 2005. 14. "PERSPECTIVES ON THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS" Eds. Okasha et al WPA 2005 15. "THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS – AN AREA OF GLOBAL NEGLECT" Eds. Okasha et al . John Wiley and Sons 2007 16. "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN WOMAN’S MENTAL HEALTH" GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE IN A CHANGING SOCIETY Eds. Okasha et al .John Wiley and Sons, 2009.
Editors of Books in Arabic:
1. Contemporary Psychiatry (15th edition) 2010 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop. 2. Behavioral Sciences, 1996 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop 3. Basis of Clinical Psychology, 1996 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop 4. A guide of psychology, 1990 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop 5. Medical Psychology (4th Edition) 1994 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop 6. Physiological Psychology (12th edition) 2009 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop. 7. Leonardo Divinci ( Introduction and translation) , 1970 - Anglo Egyptian Bookshop 8. Answers that are frightening , 1977 – Ghareeb Bookshop 9. There is management for addiction, 1985 – Series Books for all. 10. There is an addict in our House, 1985 – Ministry of Culture. 11. There is a cure for your suffering, 1973 – El Moaalam Publisher – Beirut. 12. Holes in the conscience. 2001 – Dar EL Shorouk. 5th Edition 2009 13. Horizons of artistic creativity “A Psychological Perspectives, “2002- Dar EL Shorouk. 14. The anatomical dissection of the Egyptian Personality, 2009 - Dar EL Shorouk 15. Psychological Satisfaction, 2008, El Akhbar Medical book 16. Psychotropic drugs,1979 17. Lithium therapy, 1985 18. Psychopathology of Anxiety, 1981 19. 10th Revision of Mental and Behavioral disorders,1999, WHO - EMRO, Arabic translation