Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health

Through a career in academic, public policy, clinical, and administrative roles, Dr. McQuistion’s expertise concerns community-based systems of care. He has extensively published and taught on community mental health and the needs of marginalized populations, especially regarding recovery orientation, advocacy, clinical engagement, psychiatric rehabilitation, and substance misuse. He completed Residency at NYU Medical Center and the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia. He is past president of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, recipient of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Prof. Dr. Seyed Saeid, Zamanieh Shahri is Organizing Committee Member in World Medical Conferences , International Symposium , Global Seminars , World Medical Congress such as 5th World Congress on Gynecology and Obstetrics Feb 2022 Paris France , Internal and Critical Care Medicine ICCM 2022 France, Global Conference on Obstetrics and Gynecology March 2022 Austria , International Symposium of Obesity and Diabetes Nov 2021 New York USA. 

Sonia Sayyedalhosseini is Organizing Committee Member in World Medical Conferences, International Symposium , Global Seminars , World Medical Congress such as 5th World Congress on Gynecology and Obstetrics Feb 2022 Paris France , Internal and Critical Care Medicine ICCM 2022 France, Global Conference on Obstetrics and Gynecology March 2022 Austria , International Symposium of Obesity and Diabetes Nov 2021 New York USA. 

Dr Ioannis Bellas earned his medical degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and completed his residency training at Department of Psychiatry of the University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis. The last three years he is a psychiatrist for the Society of Social Psychiatry P. Sakellaropoulos in North Eastern Greece.

Atique Ahmed is a consultant Psychiatrist and Child Psychiatrist, who finished her Master in Psychiatry in 2004 (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium). She worked in France as a ‘praticien hospitalier’ in Child Psychiatry and for the World Health Organization, before joining the research department in Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) in 2011. He has been a lecturer in France (IFSI) since 2004 but  has also joined the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland in 2012.

Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). He spent the past 6 years developing a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with volunteers, it was found to be effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

Lynnette Lyzwinski is pursuing her PhD in Medicine at the School of Medicine at University of Queensland in the Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Online Health. Her research interests include clinical trials and health promotions behaviors for promoting mental well-being and reducing lifestyle behavioral risk factors. She has special interests in mHealth, mindfulness and lifestyle medicine.

Frank van de Goot is a registered Anatomical Pathologist and an expert witness in the field of forensic pathology. He studied Medicine and Anatomical Pathology at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Rechtsmedizin at the Zentrum für Rechtsmedizin in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The first seven years of his career he worked both as a Forensic Pathologist at the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague, The Netherlands and as an Anatomical Pathologist at the VU University Medical Center. He now works at Symbiant Pathology Expert Centre, where he is on a mission to improve forensic and autopsy education for both medical and non-medical students.