Biography
Mezzich was born in 1945, in Lima, Perú, of Yugoslavian and Peruvian ancestries.
He graduated at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and was the president of the University Student Association. He received psychiatric residency training at Ohio State University and was the diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has a Ph.D. in Mathematical and Statistical Psychology at the Ohio State University.
From 1996 to 1999 he was the Secretary General of the WPA. He was the president of the WPA.
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