Mario Incayawar MD, MSc, PhD, DESS

Professor Mario Incayawar is a physician-scientist, educator, and entrepreneur, interested in cultural neuroscience of pain and analgesia, pain experiences among the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, traditional healers and global mental health, Amerindian medical knowledge, transcultural psychiatry, and the cultural brain.

Professor Incayawar is the recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2006. He is the founding director of Runajambi (Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health) in Otavalo, Ecuador. Dr. Incayawar held Henry R. Luce Professorship in Brain, Mind, and Medicine: Cross-Cultural Perspectives at Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, and Harvey Mudd Colleges, California, and the William F. Quillian Jr. Visiting International Professor at R-MWC, Virginia, USA. He was re-elected (2008-2011) to the Executive Committee of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. He is a Founding Member of the Editorial Board of the World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review (WCPRR) journal, and Regional Advisor for Ecuador, and is the former Associate Editor, Transcultural Psychiatry Section, WPA Newsletter.