EXECUTIVE BOARD
Co-opted members
ADVISORY BOARD
Hochang Benjamin (Ben) Lee, M.D. is the John Romano Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Chief of Psychiatry at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, and Regional Chief of Psychiatry for the University of Rochester Medical Center. Prior to his chairmanship at University of Rochester, he was the founding director and chief of Yale's Psychological Medicine Service, at Yale New Haven Hospital's York Street and St. Raphael campuses. He also directed Yale's Psychological Medicine Research Center. Previously, he also had been Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Director of Research Development at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
His primary research interests are:
1. Developing innovative models for delivery behavioral health service for medical and surgical patients.
2. Prevention of neuropsychiatric morbidity (e.g. delirium, depression, and dementia) after major surgery among the elders.
Dr. Lee is also an expert in psychiatric aspects of restless legs syndrome, and Asian American mental health issues. Dr, Lee is board certified in psychiatry with sub-specialty certification in psychosomatic medicine. His primary clinical interest is in behavioral aspects of dementia care, especially among those elders with multiple medical comorbidities. Dr. Lee completed psychiatry residency and combined neuropsychiatry/ psychiatric epidemiology fellowships at Johns Hopkins after earning his MD at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1997.
Name: Nobuyuki Sudo
Nationality: Japan
Education, Professional Training & Employment
1988 M.D., Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University
1997: Ph.D. Graduate School of medical Sciences, Kyushu University
2009~present: Professor & Chairman, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Memberships, Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies
Director of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine
Director of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine
Director of the Japanese Society of Eating Disorders
Councilor of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Major Research Interests
I. Brain-gut axis: Interactions among microbiota, gut and brain
II. Psychoneuroimmunology: Effects and basic mechanisms of psychological stress on immune and allergic response
She is specialist general practitioner, medical acupuncturist and associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. She organised the Division of Integrative Medicine and has been head of it since its establishment in 2020. She earned her PhD degree in psychosomatic medicine, researching the association between affective temperaments and cardiovascular diseases. She develops research in the psychosocial background of chronic pain, the role of physical exercise in stress and well-being of community adults living in rapidly changing environments, and the importance of patient reported outcome measures in person-centred care. She is engaged in medical education at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level and her research interest is the role of the clinical context in the development of medical identity. She is editorial board member of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
Stephan Zipfel is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University of Tübingen and head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the University Medical Hospital Tübingen, Germany. He has been the President of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM) and a Board member of the International Federation of Psychotherapy. He is Director of the Centre for Nutritional Science at the Universities of Tübingen & Hohenheim, Germany and Dean of Medical Education at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen. He has published widely on eating and somatoform disorders, placebo research and medical education.
Kyung Bong Koh, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He was graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine. He is the author of "Stress and Psychosomatic Medicine" as well as of "Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms" and has contributed chapters to several textbooks. His many published articles concentrate primarily on psychosomatic medicine, especially psychoneuroimmunology, somatization and stress. He has developed a number of psychological instruments, including the Stress Response Inventory. He has received three academic awards for his distinguished research on the relationship between anger and somatization, immunology in anxiety disoders, and neural activity in panic disorder and somatoform disorder from the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association. He played a leading role in founding and also served as president of the Korean Society of Psychosomatic Medicine. He worked as chair of the Scientific Committee of the Society and the first editor-in-chief of the Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition, he served as chairperson of the Organizing Committee of the international academic meetings, such as the 13th Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine and the 21st World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine held in Seoul, Korea.
Dr. Cosci got her medical degree at the University of Florence in Italy and her PhD at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Florence. Her main research interests are in mood and anxiety disorders, tobacco dependence, assessment, clinimetrics, and novel psychotherapeutic approaches such as well-being therapy. She is Editor in Chief of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
She is currently Associate Professor of clinical psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna, a certified Psychosomatic Specialist, and Well-Being Therapy specialist and trainer. She has been working as a research associate at the Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School in Boston, where she serves as Honorary Consultant. She is also an Executive Board Member and National Delegate of the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT). Her research interests are concerned with psychotherapy, euthymia, clinimetrics and psychosomatic medicine. She is author/co-author of more than 70 articles published in international high-impact journals. Her current h-index is 29 (Scopus).
António Barbosa, Ph.D, is Full Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the University Clinic of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Director of the Bioethics Center of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Master Courses in Palliative Care and in Psychopathology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Coordinator of the Liaison Psychiatry Unity of the Psychiatry Service and coordinator of the Center for Intervention in Psycho-Oncology at University Hospital of Santa Maria. President of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine. Vice-President of Session on Psychosomatic Liaison and Psychiatry of the European Psychiatrist Association.
Member of the International Workgroup on Grief and President of the Portuguese Society of Psycho-Oncology and of the Portuguese Society of Studies and Intervention in Grief and Secretary General of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry.
He has developed research in the area of psychosomatic, psycho-oncology, palliative care, grief and bereavement, clinical and psychiatric epidemiology, anthropology and sociology of health, bioethics, narrative medicine, medical education and psychodynamic integrative psychotherapy.
He is author of the book Fazer o Luto (2016), 250 articles and 65 book chapters, coeditor of 18 books and presented over 500 oral and poster presentations in scientific meetings.
Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Greece; Secretary for Sections, World Psychiatric Association; Chairman, Section of Preventive Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association 1996-1999; Vice-President, Athens Medical Society, 1996-1998; International Member, American Psychiatric Association. Founder and Editor-in-chief, “Psychiatriki” (official Journal of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association) since 1990. Editor in 20 books. Member, Editorial Board in 14 journals (including Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry).
Dr. Fava got his medical degree at the University of Padova in Italy, where he specialized in psychiatry. After spending several years in the U.S., he went back to Italy, where he is now Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bologna. He has a joint appointment with the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. As head of the Affective Disorders Program and Laboratory of Experimental Psychotherapy of the University of Bologna, he has performed groundbreaking research in mood and anxiety disorders, introducing new psychotherapeutic approaches, such as the sequential treatment and well-being therapy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, a journal which has climbed the impact factor rankings to become, with an impact factor of 9.20, the top world journal for original investigations in the psychology ranking.
He Graduated at the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University. He is currently Professor & Chairman of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kyushu University.
His main research interests are: Psychosomatic Medicine (Psycho-Neuro-Endocrino-Immunology); Internal Medicine; Allergology. He is President of the Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine and Member of the Board of Directors of Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, Japanese Society of Internal Psychosomatic Medicine, Japanese Society of Autogenic Training, Japanese Society of Fasting Therapy, Japanese Stress Society, Japan Transactional Analysis Association, Japanese Society of Mood disorders, Japanese Society of Naikan Therapy, Japanese Society of Fatigue. He received the Ishikawa Award (Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine) in May, 1993
and the JMI Award (Japanese Society of Autogenic Training) in September, 2007.
Dr. Lipsitt is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Chairman Emeritus, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts He is Honorary Chairman, Section on Psychiatry, Medicine and Primary Care, World Psychiatric Association He has published over 100 articles, 26 book chapters, and 4 co-edited books. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of 2 peer-reviewed journals: GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE; and also the SOMATIZATION NEWSLETTER, and he is on several editorial boards. He has received numerous awards, including: The Award for Lifetime Achievement and Contribution in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, by Society for Liaison Psychiatry, 1994 The Cummings Foundation Psyche Award for Innovation in Integrated Behavioral Health Care, 1999 The Thomas P. Hackett Award, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, for Lifetime Contribution to Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatry, 2000 The Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Academic Psychiatry, 2001 He received an Honorary Master of Arts degree, Harvard University, 1990 He has served as President of the American Association of General Hospital Psychiatrists, the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, from 1999-2001 He has been an invited visiting professor in Montreal, Melbourne, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Madrid, Helsinki, Hamburg, Istanbul, Lisbon, Lausanne, and Oslo.
Dr. Sensky is Professor of Psychological Medicine at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London, and works clinically as a psychiatrist at the West Middlesex University Hospital, in West London. His clinical work is mainly concerned with general hospital psychiatry and occupational psychiatry. His research has focused on the psychological aspects of chronic illness, both physical and mental. He has a particular interest in cognitive therapy, and was elected a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He teaches regularly at all levels, and his teaching interests include evidence-based practice, on which he has regularly run workshops world-wide.
Dr. Sivik is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine, Gothenburg University. She is born in Croatia where she graduated in comparative literature and philosophy prior to her move to Sweden. In Sweden she attained a master degree in clinical psychology and psychoanalythically trained psychotherapist before she graduated from Medical School at the University of Gothenburg. She is the author of four and co-author of 1 textbooks (in Swedish) and co-editor and/or author of 3 anthologies, about 50 scientific articles (in English and Swedish) and numerous debate and other popular articles promoting psychosomatic medicine. She has organized and is the head of the Education in Psychosomatic Medicine in Sweden, administered by Karolinska Institute, Sth. She is member of the Board of Swedish Medical Association, Section of Medical Psychology. She has organized 6 national and 4 international meetings among which the 16th World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine in Gothenburg stands as the most important one. She has founded Swedish Psychosomatic Association. She is a member of the scientific board of several peer-reviewed journals. She has been invited as a visiting professor in Lisabon, Montreal, Firence, Padova, Sao Paolo, Buonos Aires, Maintz, Kiel, Oslo, Zagreb, Rijeka, Cluj, Tokio, Kyoto, Fokuoka.
Dr. Streltzer is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, where he was training director from 1982-1996. A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he did a medicine internship at Queen's Hospital, Honolulu, and his psychiatry residency at Yale University School of Medicine. He is board certified in general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and pain management. A consultation-liaison psychiatrist, he is President of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine. He chaired the organizing committee of the 17th World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine in Waikoloa, Hawaii in August 2003. He has been Chair of the Chronic Pain Task Force of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and is a member of the Pain Medicine Board Examination Committee of the American Board of Anesthesiologists. He has been on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, and is a reviewer for several journals. He has published widely in areas of psychosomatic medicine, pain, and cultural psychiatry. In collaboration with Dr. Wen-Shing Tseng he has coedited 3 books: Culture and Psychopathology (Brunner/Mazel, 1997), Culture and Psychotherapy (American Psychiatric Press, 2001), and Cultural Competence in Clinical Psychiatry (American Psychiatric Publishing Inc, 2004).
Thomas N. Wise, M.D. has a long career in consultation liaison psychiatry (Psychosomatic Medicine) that spans over 3 decades. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, George Washington and the Virginia Commonwealth University School. As medical director of Psychiatry at the Inova Health Systems in Fairfax Virginia he established the consultation liaison fellowship program over 30 years ago. He has been president of both the American Psychosomatic Society and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine where he was awarded the Thomas Hackett Award. Dr. Wise is the series editor of Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine. He was editor of Psychosomatics for 20 years.
He has published over 315 papers and textbook chapters. His research interest is personality variables in coping with medical illness as well as providing psychiatric services to medical populations. He is co-editor of a new textbook Psycho-Oncology. He is co- editor of Psychiatry in Primary Care in its second edition.
