EAPM Board
During the EAPM general assembly 2023, new members of the EAPM board were elected. This board will stay until the next election during the General Assembly 2024.
Please see here our lists of Past Presidents and Past Board Members.
President
Michael Sharpe, MD
Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Dr Michael Sharpe MD FACLP is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK and a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist at Oxford University Hospitals.
In his work he aims to improve the lives of the medically ill by integrating psychiatric and psychological interventions into their care. He has published more than 320 papers on this topic and established the renowned ‘Integrated Psychological Medicine’ service in the Oxford University Hospitals.
Dr Sharpe is President of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Integrated Care (EAPM) and a past President of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP).
In 2023 he was recipient of both the American Psychiatric Association’s ‘Adolf Meyer Award’ for achievement in psychiatric research and the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry’s ‘Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award’ for outstanding contributions to the field.
Vice President
Judith Rosmalen, PhD
Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
Judith Rosmalen is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of Groningen. She studied medical biology (University of Utrecht 1995) and psychology (University of Leiden 1998, cum laude), and obtained her PhD on interactions between immune and endocrine system (Erasmus University Rotterdam 2000). Her multidisciplinary research focusses on the etiology and treatment of persistent physical symptoms. She is the chair of the Dutch national network on medically unexplained symptoms. Details on her publications and activities can be found at www.rug.nl/staff/j.g.m.rosmalen
Secretary
Adriana Baban, PhD
Professor of Health Psychology
Babes-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Vice Secretary
Per Fink, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
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Another area of special focus is classification, and he has developed research criteria for both Bodily Distress Syndrome and Health Anxiety. The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics currently has 40 employees of which about half are working clinically, the other half with research. The clinic treats patients with functional disorders, including functional somatic syndromes and health anxiety and receives patients from all over Denmark. Per Fink has vast experience with teaching at all levels as well as an extensive publication list primarily with focus on somatisation or functional disorders.
Treasurer
Angelika Weigel, PhD
Head Psychologist
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany
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Vice Treasurer
Meike Shedden Mora, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Medical School Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49-40-7410-54323
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Board Member
Joanna Rymaszewska, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Wroclaw Medical University
Wrocław, Poland
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Board Member
Fiammetta Cosci, MD, PhD
Professor Clinical Psychology
University of Florence
Florence, Italy
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Board Member
Peter Henningsen, MD
Professor Psychosomatic Medicine
University of Munich
Munich, Germany
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D.o.B. 1959
Board Certification in Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy and in Neurology and Psychiatry
Since 2005 Professor and Head, Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital „Rechts der Isar“, Technical University of Munich
2010 – 2019 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Technical University of Munich
2013 – 2018 Assoc. Editor „Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine“
Since 2018 Spokesperson of German Academic Chairs in Psychosomatic Medicine
Since 2020 Member of Medical Committee of the German Science Council
Past President
Jordi Blanch, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalonia – Spain
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Jordi Blanch, MD PhD, is Consultant in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Associate Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Barcelona, and Chief Operating Officer of the Program for Mental Health and Addictions of Catalonia.
He has been Chief of the Inpatient Psychiatry Clinic in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona; Medical Coordinator in Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu; Chair for Educational Affairs of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and president of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry
For more than twenty years he has conducted clinical, research and educational work in HIV Psychiatry. His areas of expertise in HIV Mental Health include depression, psychopharmacology, drug interactions, and psychotherapy in HIV.
He has also been done clinical work in psychiatric and psychological disorders in severely ill medical patients (oncology, bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, and others), as well as in personality disorders and anxiety disorders.
Co-opted Board Member
Future Conference President
Fritz Stiefel, MD
Professor of CL Psychiatry
University Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
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Co-opted Board Member
France
Cedric Lemogne, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
University Paris Cité, France
Paris, France
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Co-opted Board Member
Young Researcher
Natalie Uhlenbusch, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
Associated Board Member
(ex officio)
Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
Jess G. Fiedorowicz, MD
Professor of Adult Psychiatry
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada