SOCIETY and BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Society Memberships

·         Corresponding Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association

• Associate Secretary General of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association (EPA) (1990-2002)
• Secretary of Sections of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists (1996-2008)
• Officer in WPA Section on Mental Health Policy and Economics (1996-2008)
• Member of the WPA Section on Affective Disorders (1996-2008)
• Member of the WPA Section on Quality Assurance in Psychiatry (1996-2008)
• Member of the Executive Committee of Arab American Psychiatric Association (2000-now)
• Secretary of the Egyptian Section of Biological Psychiatry in Affiliation to the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2000-2008)
• Member of the conjoint board of the Diploma in Psychiatric Practice of the Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University and Guys Hospital, London (2004-2011)
• Head of Addiction Psychiatry Section of the EPA and Arab Federation of Psychiatry (2000-2008)
• Member of the International Psychogeriatric Association (2000-now)
• Member of the American Sleep Disorders Association (2000-now)
• Member of the World Association of Mental Health (1996-now)
• Member of the Egyptian Association for Mental Health (1996-now)
• Member of the Egyptian Association for Geriatric Health (1996-2004)
• Member of the Association of Egypt`s Women (1996-2006)
• Member of the Egyptian Association for Human Rights (1996-2000)
• Member of the Egyptian-French Association
• Member of the Egyptian Association of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery (1985-now)

Journal Boards

• Associate Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Psychiatry (1990-2000)
• Senior Associate Editor of “Psychiatry Update” An Egyptian Journal (1997-2000)
• Senior Associate Editor of “Current Psychiatry” An Egyptian Journal (2000-2008)