Faculty
PROF. ANN JOHN
Prof. Public Health and Psychiatry Swansea University Chair,
National Advisory Group on Suicide and Self harm prevention
Welsh Government
PROF. DIANA E CLARKE
Director of Research and Senior Research Statistician/Epidemiologist
American Psychiatric Association Assistant Professor
Department of Mental Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health
PROF. ANNETTE ERLANGSEN
Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins University
Honorary Associate Professor Australian National University
Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention
PROF. DIEGO DE LEO
Director Emeritus WHO Collaborating Centre for
Research and Training in Suicide Prevention Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Griffith University, Brisbane Director, Slovene Centre for Suicide Research
PROF. BRIAN L MISHARA
Director and Founder, Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide
Ethical Issues and End-of-Life Practices (CRISE) Professor of Psychology
University of Quebec à Montréal
PROF. DINESH BHUGRA
Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity,
Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London
PROF. GIL ZALSMAN
Prof of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv University
Past CEO, Geha Mental Health Center, ISRAEL
Past president of the IASR
Co-chair of child psychiatry network of ECNP
PROF. GUSTAVO TURECKI
Chair, Department of Psychiatry McGill University
Director, McGill Group For Suicide Studies
PROF. GIN S MALHI
Head, Academic Department of Psychiatry
CADE Clinic University of Sydney
PROF. HELEN HERRMAN
Professor Emerita of Psychiatry Centre for Youth Mental Health
University of Melbourne
PROF. GREGORY ARMSTRONG
Head, Global & Cultural Mental Health Unit
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
PROF. JANE PIRKIS
Director and Professor Centre for Mental Health
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
PROF. JO ROBINSON
Head, Suicide Prevention Research, Orygen Centre for Youth Mental Health
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences,
University of Melbourne
PROF. MARIA A OQUENDO
Chair, Department of Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
PROF. J JOHN MANN
Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry
and Radiology Director, Molecular Imaging and
Neuropathology Division Dept. of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Columbia Center
for Prevention and Treatment of Depression
Columbia University / New York State
Psychiatric Institute
PROF. MERETE NORDENTOFT
Chief Psychiatrist
Psychiatric Center Copenhagen
Professor, University of Copenhagen
PROF. KEITH HAWTON
Emeritus Director and Professor of Psychiatry
Centre for Suicide Research
University of Oxford
PROF. MORTON M SILVERMAN
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Medical College of Wisconsin
PROF. PAUL YIP
Director, HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention
Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
DR. SOUMITRA PATHARE
Director, Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy
Indian Law Society (ILS), Pune
PROF. PRABHA S CHANDRA
Senior Professor
Department of Psychiatry
National Institute of Mental Health and
Neurosciences (NIMHANS)
DR. SOUMYA SWAMINATHAN
Chair – MSSR Foundation
Chennai
MS. RAMYA KANNAN
Health editor and Chief of Bureau
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, The Hindu
DR. M SURESH KUMAR
Consultant Psychiatrist
Chennai
PROF. RORY O’CONNOR
Professor of Health Psychology Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research
Laboratory School of Health & Wellbeing
University of Glasgow
PROF. THOMAS NIEDERKROTENTHALER
Professor, Public Mental Health Unit University of Vienna
Founder Chairman, Wiener Werkstaette
for Suicide Research
MS. VANDA SCOTT
Special Invitee International Association
for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
PROF. VLADIMIR CARLI
Head, Research Units National Centre of Suicide Prevention
Karolinska Institute
PROF. VENKATASUBRAMANIAN GANESAN
Professor of Psychiatry
National Institute of Mental Health and
Neurosciences (NIMHANS)
MS. WENDY ORCHARD
Chief Executive Officer International Association
for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
PROF. VIKRAM PATEL
Paul Farmer Professor and Chair Department of Global Health and Social
Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, Sangath
PROF. YOGESH DWIVEDI
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Elesabeth Ridgely Shook
Endowed Chair for Psychiatric Research University of
Alabama at Birmingham
PROF. YUNYU XIAO
Assistant Professor, Department of
Population Health Sciences
Health Informatics and
Artificial Intelligence and in Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University