Philip Gorwood MD, PhD

Professor Gorwood studied medicine from 1982 to 1988 and specialized in psychiatry in 1988. He is currently full Professor of Psychiatry at Sainte-Anne Hospital and Head of the CMME department [Clinique des Maladies Mentales et de L’Encéphale, with 60 beds], teaching at the Paris-Descartes University. He is also Head of Team 1 at INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médical) research unit 894 (Center of Psychiatry and Neuroscience) devoted to genetic vulnerability of psychiatric and addictive disorders. Professor Gorwood has published over 240 scientific articles (h-index=46) and 24 book chapters.

He has served on 16 editorial boards for journals in psychiatry, neuroscience and genetics, and is editor-in-chief of the journal European Psychiatry (IF=3.9). He is now treasurer and member of the Core Organising and Scientific Committee (COSC), Executive Committee (EC) and board of the European Psychiatric Association. He joined the scientific advisory (SAB) board of the ECNP for addictive disorders in 2009. Philip Gorwood is the president of the national associations on alcoholism (Federation de Recherche en Alcoologie, FRA) and eating disorders (AFDAS-TCA). In 1992, Professor Gorwood received the Lilly ‘First Communication’ award and later in 1997, the French Association for Biological Psychiatry's Best Communication of the Year award. In 1999, he received the Association of European Psychiatry ‘Young Researcher’ award; and in 2000 the French National Academy of Medicine for the best research.