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WPA special members are those members who cannot be categorised within the WPA member society and affiliate association groups.  Whilst the WPA does not accept applications for individual memberships, the “special” category includes those individuals who have been awarded an honorary membership, fellowship or presidential commendation following an exceptional contribution to the practice of psychiatry.  Special memberships are nominated, agreed and conferred at triennial General Assembly meetings.

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Scroll down for a full list of honorary members, fellows and those awarded presidential commendations or skip to a specific year.

2020 - Virtual

2011 - Buenos Aires

2002 - Yokohama

2017 - Berlin

2008 - Prague

2014 - Madrid

2005 - Cairo

Virtual

General Assembly – Virtual 2020

Honorary Membership

  • Dr Stojan Bajraktarov (North Macedonia)

  • Ms Claudia Buchweitz (Brazil)

  • Professor Wendy Burn (UK)

  • Dr Alfredo Cia (Argentina)

  • Professor Prabha Chandra (India)

  • Dr Chawanun Charnsil (Thailand)

  • Professor Doina Cozman (Romania)

  • Professor Christopher Dowrick (UK)

  • Professor Maria Luísa Figueira (Portugal)

  • Mr Steve Fisher (Australia)

  • Dr Karandeep Sonu Gaind (Canada)

  • Professor Silvia Gaviria (Columbia)

  • Associate Professor Neeraj Gill (Australia)

  • Dr Suhaila Ghuloum (Qatar)

  • Dr Maria João Heitor (Portugal)

  • Dr Nawaporn Hirunviwatgul (Thailand)

  • Professor Amanda Howe (UK)

  • Professor Christina Hoven (USA)

  • Dr Toshiko Kamo (Japan)

  • Ms Alice Kan (Hong Kong)

  • Professor Shigenobu Kanba (Japan)

  • Dr Christian Kieling (Brazil)

  • Dr Fred Kigozi (Uganda)

  • Professor Jyrki Korkeila (Finland)

  • Dr Nino Makhashvili  (Georgia)

  • Ms Miia Manniko (Finland)

  • Professor Jair Mari (Brazil)

  • Professor Bernadette McSherry (Australia)

  • Professor Maria Elena Medina-Mora Icaza (Mexico)

  • Dr Francisco Javier Mesa Ríos (Mexico)

  • Ms Guadalupe Morales (Spain)

  • Dr Davor Mucic (Denmark)

  • Dr Khalid Attaullah Mufti (Pakistan)

  • Professor Pratima Murthy (India)

  • Professor Nahla Nagy (Egypt)

  • Professor David M. Ndetei (Kenya)

  • Dr Bernardo Ng (USA)

  • Professor Antoni Novotni (North Macedonia)

  • Dr John Oldham (USA)

  • Professor Olayinka Omigbodum (Nigeria)

  • Professor Martha Ontiveros (USA)

  • Dra Miriam de la Osa O’Reilly (Cuba)

  • Professor Vikram Patel (India & USA )

  • Dr Prasad Rao (India)

  • Professor Gail Robinson (Canada)

  • Dr Maria Rodrigues (Australia)

  • Dra Virginia Rosabal (Costa Rica)

  • Professor John Saunders (Australia)

  • Professor Martha Savage (New Zealand)

  • Dr Annabel Seebohm (Belgium)

  • Dr Winston Shen (Taiwan)

  • Professor Geoffrey Smith (UK)

  • Dr Aldo A. Suárez Mendoza (Mexico)

  • Ms Charlene Sunkel (South Africa)

  • Professor Christopher Szabo (South Africa)

  • Professor George Szmukler (UK)

  • Professor Solomon Teferra (Ethiopia)

  • Professor Markos Tesfaye (Ethiopia)

  • Professor João Marques-Teixeira (Portugal)

  • Professor Catalina Tudose (Romania)

  • Professor Owoidoho Udofia (Nigeria)

  • Dr Pedro Varandas (Portugal)

  • Dr Kiattibhoom Vongrachit (Thailand)

  • Dr Dawit Wondimagegn (Ethiopia)

  • Professor Wang Xiaoping (China)

  • Mr Lian Zeitz (USA)

  • Professor Zvi Zemishlany (Israel)

  • Mr Spyros Zorbas (Greece)

Honorary Fellowship

 

  • Professor John Allan (Australia)

  • Professor Michaela Amering (Austria)

  • Professor Silvana Galderisi  (Italy)

  • Professor Roy Abraham Kallivayalil (India)

  • Professor María Inés López-Ibor de Alcocer (Spain)

  • Professor Armen Soghoyan (Armenia)

Presidential Commendations

  • Professor Afzal Javed (UK and Pakistan)

  • Dr Carol Nadelson (USA)

  • Professor Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)

  • Professor Sam Tyano (Israel)

Berlin

General Assembly – Berlin 2017

Honorary Membership

 

  • Dr Leopoldo Abda (Ecuador)

  • Prof Mohan Agashe (India)

  • Dr Francis Agnew (New Zealand)

  • Prof Paul Appelbaum (USA)

  • Dr Gisele Apter (France)

  • Dr T.V. Asokan (India)

  • Dr Stojan Bajraktarov (Republic of Macedonia, FYROM)

  • Prof Sabyasachi Bhaumik (UK)

  • Prof K S Bhui (UK)

  • Dr Michel Botbol (France)

  • Dr Niall Boyce (UK)

  • Rt Hon Paul Burstow (UK)

  • Mrs Vanessa Cameron (UK)

  • Dr Eka Chkonia (Georgia)

  • Dr Wai-chi Chan (Hong Kong)

  • Dr Prabha Chandra (India)

  • Dr Santosh K Chaturvedi (India)

  • Dr Massimo Clerici (Italy)  

  • Dr Mary Cohen (USA) 

  • Prof Eric Chen (Hong Kong)

  • Prof Enrique Chávez León (Mexico)

  • Dr Frank Huang-Chih Chou (Taiwan)

  • Dr Rodrigo Cordoba (Colombia)

  • Prof Tom Craig (UK)

  • Dr Kirsten Eckstrand (USA)

  • Prof Ian Everall (Australia/UK)

  • Dr Ann Faerden (Norway)

  • Prof Peter Falkai (Germany)

  • Mr Jon Fanning (USA)

  • Dr Andrea Fiorillo (Italy)

  • Dr Andrew Forrester (UK)

  • Dr Silvana Galderisi (Italy)

  • Dr Silvia Gaviria (Colombia)

  • Sir David Goldberg (UK)

  • Dr Mukesh Haikerwal (Australia)

  • Dr Julie Holzhausen (Germany)

  • Dr Malcolm Hopwood (Australia)

  • Prof Gabriel Ivbijaro (UK)

  • Dr Paramjit Joshi (USA)

  • Prof Michael Kidd (Australia)

  • Dr Jyrki Korkeila (Finland)

  • Prof Linda Lam (Hong Kong)

  • Rt Hon Norman Lamb (UK)

  • Dr Alex Langford (UK)

  • Dr Min-Soo Lee (South Korea)

  • Dr Bennett Leventhal (USA)

  • Dr Saul Levin (USA)

  • Dr Petros Levounis (USA)

  • Dr Maria-Ines Lopez-Ibor (Spain)

  • Dr S. C. Malik (India)

  • Dr Joan Marsh (UK)

  • Dr Ola Marstein (Norway)

  • Dr Daniel Maughan (UK)

  • Dr Gordana Milovic (UK)

  • Dr Petr V. Morozov (Russia)

  • Dr Khalid Attaullah Mufti (Pakistan)

  • Dr Nahla Nagy (Egypt)

  • Dr Alvydas Navickas (Lithuania)

  • Dr David M. Ndetei (Kenya)

  • Dr Roger Ng (Hong Kong)

  • Prof. Aurel NireÈ™tean (Romania)

  • Dr Soumitra Pathare (India)

  • Dr Max Pemberton (UK)

  • Dr Nerys Perez (Dominican Republic)

  • Mr Albert Persaud (UK/Spain)

  • Mr Andrew Peters (Australia)

  • Dr Mary Piper (UK)

  • Dr Luz Ma Querubin (Philippines)

  • Brig MSVK Raju (India)

  • Dr Virginia Rosabal (Costa Rica)

  • Prof Roxanna Ruiz (Guatemala)

  • Dr Walid Sarhan (Jordan)

  • Sir Anand Satyanand (New Zealand)

  • Dr Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany)

  • Dr Raad Shakir (UK)

  • Dr Avdesh Sharma (India)

  • Dr Sujatha Sharma (India)

  • Dr Greg Shields (UK)

  • Dr Norbert Skokauskas (Norway)

  • Prof Paul Summergrad (USA)

  • Dr R Thara (India)

  • Dr Mvuyiso Talatala (South Africa)

  • Dr Kuruvilla Thomas (India)

  • Prof Edgardo Tolentino (Philippines)

  • Dr Julio Torales (Paraguay)

  • Dr Pichet Udomratn (Thailand)

  • Dr Uwoidoho Udofia (Nigeria)

  • Dr Rutger Jan van der Gaag (Netherlands)

  • Prof Bernard van Rensburg (South Africa)

  • Dr Antonio Ventriglio (Italy)

  • Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar (India)

  • Ms Marjorie Wallace (UK)

  • Dr Ian Westmore (South Africa)

  • Sir Simon Wessely (UK)

  • Dr Michael Jan Wise (UK)

Honorary Fellowship

 

  • Prof Paul Appelbaum (USA)

  • Dr Edgard Belfort (Venezuela) Leaving EC

  • Prof Dinesh Bhugra (UK) Leaving EC

  • Dr Alfredo Cía (Argentina)

  • Dr Afzal Javed (Pakistan) Leaving EC

  • Prof Edmond Pi (USA)

  • Dr Michelle Riba (USA) Leaving EC

  • Dr Constantin Soldatos (Greece)

  • Prof Donna Stewart (Canada)

  • Dr Zvi Zemishlany (Israel)

Presidential Commendations

 

  • Mrs Vanessa Cameron (UK) Goodwill Ambassador

  • Dr Antonio Geraldo de Silva (Brazil)

  • Prof Helen Herrman (Australia)

  • Dr Dilip Jeste (USA)

  • Dr Marianne Kastrup (Denmark)

  • Dr Saul Levin (USA)

  • Prof Mario Maj (Italy)

  • Mr Kunal Nayyar (USA/India) Goodwill Ambassador

  • Mr Suresh Oberoi (India) Goodwill Ambassador

  • Ms Shivani (India) Goodwill Ambassador

  • Prof Robert van Voren

  • Sir Simon Wessely (UK)

General Assembly – Madrid 2014

Madrid

Honorary Membership

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  • ndArés Arce (Paraguay)

  • Tun Bastaman (Indonesia)

  • Miguel Roca Bennasar (Spain)

  • Julio Bobes Garcia (Spain)

  • Mari Fe Bravo (Spain)  

  • Cheng Chung Chen (Taiwan)

  • Alfredo Cia (Argentina)

  • Fabrizio Delgado Campodonico (Ecuador)

  • Rodolfo Fahrer (Argentina)

  • Kostas N. Fountoulakis (Greece)

  • Linda Gask (UK)

  • Miguel Gutiérrez (Spain)

  • Linda Lam (Hong Kong)

  • Carmen Leal (Spain)

  • Bennett L. Leventhal (USA)

  • Eduardo Madrigal de León (Mexico)

  • John S. McIntyre (USA)

  • Driss Moussaoui (Morocco)

  • Michael Musalek (Austria)

  • Antonio Pacheco Palha (Portugal)

  • Eudoxia Gay Pamo

  • s (Spain)

  • Peter Pregelj (Slovenia)

  • Dan Prelipceanu (Romania)

  • Solomon Rataemane (South Africa)

  • Hans Rohlof (France)

  • Jeronimo Saiz (Spain)

  • Mauricio A. Sanchez (Nicaragua)

  • §  Thomas G. Schulze (Germany)

  • Eliot Sorel (Romania)

  • José Geraldo Vernet Taborda (Brazil)

  • Manickam Thirunavukarasu (India)

  • Henrik Wahlberg (Sweden)

  • Danuta Wasserman (Sweden)

  • Zvi Zemishlany (Israel)

Honorary Fellowship

  • Tsuyoshi Akiyama (Japan)

  • Levent Küey (Turkey)

  • Tarek Okasha (Egypt)

Presidential Commendation

  • Tsuyoshi Akiyama (Japan)

  • Edgard Belfort (Venezuela)

  • Dinesh Bhugra (U.K.)

  • Maria Fe Bravo (Spain)

  • Eudoxia Gay (Spain)

  • Miguel Gutierrez (Spain)

  • Afzal Javed (Pakistan)

  • Levent Küey (Turkey)

  • Mario Maj (Italy)

  • Charles B. Nemeroff (USA)

  • Ahmed Okasha (Egypt)

  • Tarek Okasha (Egypt)

  • Jeronimo Saiz, (Spain)

  • Michelle Riba (USA)

  • Miguel Roca (Spain)

  • Antonio Pacheco Palha (Portugal)

General Assembly – Buenos Aires 2011

Buenos Aires

Honorary Membership

  • Joseph Adeyemi (Nigeria)

  • Dimitris Anagnostopoulos (Greece)

  • Charles Baddoura (Lebanon)

  • Rachid Bennegadi (France)

  • Marco Bertelli (Italy)

  • Alfredo Calcedo Barba (Spain)

  • Alfredo Cia (Argentina)

  • Julian Freidin (Australia)

  • Ahmad Jalili (Iran)

  • Valery Krasnov (Russia)

  • Maya Kulygina (Russia)

  • Tamas Kurimay (Hungary)

  • Dusica Lecic-Tosevski (Serbia)

  • Xin Ma (China)

  • Nestor Marchant (Argentina)

  • Miguel Angel Materazzi (Argentina)

  • Hans-Jürgen Möller (Germany)

  • Unaiza Niaz (Pakistan)

  • Stein Opjordsmoen (Norway)

  • Edmond Pi (USA)

  • Mohamed G. Rabbani (Bangladesh)

  • Michelle B. Riba (USA)

  • Luis Risco (Chile)

  • Naotaka Shinfuku (Japan)

  • Mohamed A. Sobhan (Bangladesh)

  • Armen Soghoyan (Armenia)

  • Juan Carlo Stagnaro (Argentina)

  • Heather Stuart (Canada)

  • José Geraldo Vernet Taborda (Brazil)

  • Raymond Tempier (Canada)

  • Yves Thoret (France)

  • Peter Tyrer (UK)

  • Gang Wang (China)

  • Xiaomin Wang (China)

  • Richard Warner (USA)

  • Jingping Zhao (China)

Honorary Fellowship

  • Allan Tasman (USA)

  • Miguel Jorge (Brazil)

  • Helen Herrman (Australia)

General Assembly - Prague 2008

Prague

Honorary Membership

  • Michaela Amering

  • Florence Baingana

  • Cho Chung

  • Luis Enrique Rivero

  • Julian Freidin         

  • Bill Fulford  

  • Oye Gureje             

  • Sheila Hollins           

  • Ma Hong     

  • Thomas Kallert        

  • Fred Kigozi             

  • Levent Kuey            

  • Cristobal Martinez   

  • Alberto Monchablon            

  • Frank Njenga          

  • Ihsan Salloum          

  • Luis Salvador-Carulla

  • Hans-Otto Thomashoff        

  • Jitendra Trivedi        

  • Ferenc Tury             

  • Ron Wintrob

  • Zeping Xiao    

Honorary Fellowship

  • John Cox

  • Hamid Ghodse

  • Francois Ferrero

  • Sam Tyano

Presidential Commendation

  • Prof. Roger Montenegro.

General Assembly – Cairo, 2005

Cairo

Honorary Membership

  • Prof. Mohammed Abou-Saleh

  • Prof. Edgard Belfort

  • Prof. Haroon R. Chaudhry

  • Prof. François Ferrero

  • Prof. Wolfgang Fleischhacker

  • Prof. Afaf Hamed Khalid

  • Prof. Carmen Leal

  • Prof. Graciela Lucatelli

  • Prof. Brian Martindale

  • Prof. Miguel Angel Materazzi

  • Prof. Tarek Okasha

  • Prof. Jiri Raboch

  • Prof. Marta Rondon

  • Prof. Shridhar Sharma

  • Prof. Donna Stewart

  • Dr. Ronnie Swift

  • Prof. Tudor Udristoiu

  • Prof. Dante Warthon

Honorary Fellowship

  • Prof. George Christodoulou

  • Prof. Joseph English

  • Prof. Marianne Kastrup

  • Prof. Mario Maj

  • Prof. Juan Mezzich

  • Prof. Roger Montenegro

  • Prof. Driss Moussaoui

  • Prof. Ahmed Okasha

  • Prof. Pedro Ruiz

Presidential Commendation

  • Prof. Pedro Ruiz.

Yokohama

General Assembly – Yokohama, 2002

Honorary Membership

  • Said Abdel Azim (Egypt)

  • Mordechai Benyakar (Argentina)

  • Carlos Berganza (Guatemala)

  • Nick Bouras (United Kingdom)

  • Enrique Camarena (Mexico)

  • Edmond Chiu (Australia)

  • John Cox (United Kingdom)

  • Parameshvara Deva (Malaysia)

  • Harold Eist (USA)

  • Jean Garrabé (France)

  • Christian Haasen (Germany)

  • Mariano Hernández (Spain)

  • Tetsuo Hirose (Japan)

  • Assen Jablensky (Australia)

  • Miguel Jorge (Brazil)

  • Levent Küey (Turkey)

  • Carmen Leal (Spain)

  • Nestor Marchant (Argentina)

  • Massimo Moscarelli (Italy)

  • Kari Pylkkänen (Finland)

  • Agnes Rupp (USA)

  • Mitsumoto Sato (Japan)

  • Jiro Suzuki  (Japan)

  • Dusiça Lecić-Tosevsky (Yugoslavia)

  • Rasit Tükel (Turkey)

Honorary Fellowship

  • Peter Berner (France)

  • Robert Cancro (USA)

  • Carlos León (Colombia)

  • Teruo Okuma (Japan)

  • Benedetto Saraceno (Switzerland).

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