Who We Are?

Professor Reiner Heun is the founder of the Global Psychiatric Association. He worked as a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Old Age Psychiatry (University of Bonn & The University of Birmingham). He has published over 250 papers and worked as an Editor of several academic journals. With the sentiment, that most psychiatric associations are bureaucratic and foster a fixed model of mental health, he invited other colleagues to develop a non-bureaucratic and democratic organisation where individual mental health professionals from all over the world can contribute to the development of psychiatric services via education, networking and by supporting and learning from colleagues in the developing world.

Darya Rostam Ahmed is a co-founder of the Global Psychiatric Association, devoted to serving on a scientific board in GPA. He has also worked as a mental health specialist in a range of contexts with several international institutes and organizations. He is a scientific researcher affiliated with Koya University and mostly conducts meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and other types of study designs. His research interests include suicide, mental well-being, psychology of terrorism, trauma and migration, neuropsychiatry, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. In addition to recently publishing articles in international peer-reviewed journals and taking part in several international conferences as a keynote speaker, he works as an editor and reviewer for several journals and publishers. His mission for GPA is to advance mental health in underprivileged countries and contribute to psychiatric research.

Rishab  (MBBS, MD) is a neuropsychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He finished his medical school training and psychiatry residency at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He has been a psychiatrist for more than a decade now. He has published several research papers in both national and international journals and has received many national and international awards (including Honors Scholar by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, New Investigator Award by the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology). He is also a reviewer for multiple academic journals. He is the head of the mental health division of SEHAT (http://www.sehat-india.org/), a non-profit organization, aimed to improve cardiovascular and mental health of the underserved population in India. His key research interests are studying the disorders at the interface of psychosis and medical

Selman Repišti, a Montenegrin psychologist, statistician, and psychometrician, completed his MA studies in Psychology in 2011 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He received training in psychotherapy and forensic psychology as well as over 60 courses in various disciplines from world-renowned universities. He is the author or coauthor of seven books and more than 50 scientific papers in national, regional, and international journals. As the author/coauthor, he created and validated 11 psychological instruments, mostly in the fields of personality psychology and mental health. He is the author of the Three-component model of professional self-esteem and an influential textbook Personality psychology: Theories and research. His main fields of interest are psychopathology, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, personality psychology, and quantitative methodology. He now lives and works as an independent scholar in Podgorica, Montenegro.

Rohit is a Senior Registrar at Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour in India. He completed his Masters in Psychiatry in 2021 from Goa University, India and is an early career psychiatrist. He conducted research in areas of Coping mechanisms and social support ,it’s correlation with strain in spouses of alcohol users; conflict, interpersonal elements and its interplay in group dynamics. His primary fields of interest include  Translational Psychiatry with respect to Obsessive Compulsive disorders and Disorders due to Addictive Behaviours.  He is a tutor cum mentor for students from MBBS, MD, M.Phil Psychiatric Social Work and Post basic diploma Psychiatric Nursing. Dr.Rohit is also a member of Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and an active participant in online Communities of American Psychiatric Association and other fora. His vision for Global Psychiatric Association is to make knowledge equitably accessible to all mental health professionals and foster multisectoral interdisciplinary collaboration to further progress the field of psychiatry.

Marianna N. is a Medical Doctor and a PhD. candidate in the field of Psychiatry. She is also well versed in Criminology, Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, CBT, Trauma Informed Therapy, and is a CSAM Researcher. Her professional experience also involves medical writing, content writing, editing, proofreading, social media management, forensic consultancy, and investigations. She is dedicated to the fight against child abuse and mental health stigmatization, which has led to a lot of her professional and academic choices. She has helped GPA from its initial steps and is excited for the future of the association.