World Psychiatric Association - History

History

Jean Delay was the first president of the organisation when it was started in 1950. Donald Ewen Cameron became the second president at the formal founding in 1961. Pedro Ruiz is president as of 2011.

YEAR WORLD CONGRESS WPA PRESIDENT
1950 Paris Jean Delay (France)
1957 Zurich Jean Delay (France)
1961 Montreal D. Ewen Cameron (Canada)
1966 Madrid Juan J. López-Ibor (Spain)
1972 Mexico City Howard Rome (USA)
1977 Hawaii Pierre Pichot (France)
1983 Vienna Costas Stefanis (Greece)
1989 Athens Jorge A. Costa e Silva (Brazil)
1993 Rio de Janeiro Felice Lieh-Mak (Hong Kong)
1996 Madrid Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
1999 Hamburg Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr. (Spain)
2002 Yokohama Ahmed Okasha (Egypt)
2005 Cairo Juan E. Mezzich (USA)
2008 Prague Mario Maj (Italy)

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