Mario Maj - Curriculum Vitae#
Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli" (1992 - present)
- Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Naples (1995 - present)
- President, World Psychiatric Association (2008 - 2011)
- President, European Psychiatric Association (2003 - 2004). Chairman, AEP/UEMS/WHO/WPA Task Force (2003 - 2004). Coordinator, European Union Project on Burden on Families of Patients with Schizophrenia (1994 - 1997). Coordinator, European Union Project on Psychoeducational Interventions for Families of Patients with Schizophrenia (2000 - 2004)
- Founder and Editor of World Psychiatry (now for the tenth consecutive year no. 1 for impact factor among Psychiatry journals, and for the seventh consecutive year no. 1 among all journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index)
- Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK (2012). Honorary Fellow, American College of Psychiatrists (2013). Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Craiova (2010)
- President, Italian Psychiatric Association (2000-2002). President, Council of Italian Professors of Psychiatry (1997 - 2000) President, Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry (1991 - present)
- Member of the Italian High Council of Health (2006 - 2013). Grand Officer of the Italian Republic (2021 - present)
- Active as researcher and educator for the World Health Organization in sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and Latin America (1983-1991). Chairman, Section on Neuropsychiatry, Global Programme on AIDS, WHO Headquarters, Geneva (1989 - 1991)
- Member of Advisory Board for Chapter on Mental Disorders of ICD-11. Chairperson of Workgroup on Mood and Anxiety Disorders for Chapter on Mental Disorders of ICD-11
- Member of the Work Group for Mood Disorders of DSM-5. Advisor for Schizophrenia to the Task Force for DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR
- Author of more than 700 papers in scientific journals and many monographs. His H-index (Google Scholar) is 113
