Editors

About the Editor

Professor Norman Sartorius, M.D., M.A., D.P.M., Ph.D., FRC. Psych, obtained his M.D. in Zagreb (Croatia). He specialized in neurology and psychiatry and subsequently obtained a Master’s Degree and a Doctorate in Psychology (Ph.D.). He carried out clinical work and research and taught at graduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Zagreb, at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, at the University of Geneva, and elsewhere. Professor Sartorius joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1967 and soon assumed charge of the program of epidemiology and social psychiatry. In 1977, Professor Sartorius was appointed Director of the Division of Mental Health of WHO. He was the Principal Investigator of several major international studies on schizophrenia, depression, and of mental and neurological disorders. In 1993, Professor Sartorius was elected President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and served as President-elect and then President until August 1999, after which he was elected President of the European Psychiatric Association. Professor Sartorius is currently the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, and he is a member of the Geneva Prize Foundation, having been its President from 2004 to 2008. Professor Sartorius holds professorial appointments at universities in different countries including China, UK, and USA. Professor Sartorius has published more than 400 articles in scientific journals, authored or coauthored 12 books, and edited more than 80 others. He is the coeditor of three scientific journals and is a member of editorial and advisory boards of many scientific journals. Professor Sartorius is also a corresponding member and fellow of a large number of international organizations and advisory boards. He has several honorary doctorates and is a member of academies of science and of medicine in different countries. He speaks Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish.

Ee Heok Kua is the Tan Geok Yin Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the National University Hospital, Singapore. He was trained as a doctor at the University of Malaya and received postgraduate training in psychiatry at Oxford University and geriatric psychiatry at Harvard University. A member of the World Health Organization team for the global study of dementia, he is the previous Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine and Vice Dean, Faculty of Medicine, at NUS, and the Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director at the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore. His research interest includes depression, dementia, and alcoholism, and he has written 23 books on psychiatry, aging, and addiction. A novel he wrote, Listening to Letter from America, is used in a module on anthropology at Harvard University. The former President of the Pacific-Rim College of Psychiatrists and President of the Gerontological Society of Singapore, he was Editor of the Singapore Medical Journal and Asia-Pacific Psychiatry journal.