Florence Thibaut MD, PhD

Florence is Professor of Psychiatry at the University Hospital Cochin-Tarnier, Paris-Descartes University, Paris, France.Her main interests are the search for candidate genes in schizophrenia and addictive disorders and the treatment of paraphilias. She is currently a member of the INSERM U 894 Team in Paris V University (Psychiatry and Neurosciences Centre, Sainte Anne Hospital).She is also investigator in many clinical and pharmaceutical studies. She is Past President of the French Association for Biological Psychiatry.

She is Past President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. She is author or coauthor of more than 180 papers, 3 books (genetics of schizophrenia, psychiatric aspects of deviant sexual disorders, neurosciences and their impact in clinical psychiatry) and about 60 books chapters. She was an invited speaker in many national and international meetings. She has coordinated several national and international congresses. She was coordinator or co-author of several national and international treatment guidelines.