Wolfgang Gaebel
Professor of Psychiatry, Director em. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LVR-Klinikum, Heinrich-Heine-University, Director WHO-CC DEU-131, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dr. med. Wolfgang Gaebel is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, former Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf (Germany) and Medical Director of the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf. He is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre of Quality Assurance and Empowerment in Mental Health. From 2014 to 2016 he was Founding Director of the LVR-Institute for Mental Healthcare Research in Düsseldorf.
Prof. Gaebel was twice President of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN 1995/6, 2007/8), 1999-2002 he was President of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry. From 2000-2016 he was Vice-President of the German Association of the Medical Scientific Societies (AWMF). 2015/6 President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), 2015-2021 he was President of the European Scientific Association of Schizophrenia and other psychoses (ESAS). In 2022 he was Vice President of the European Brain Council. From 2008-2020 he was chairing the German Alliance on Mental Health. Prof. Gaebel is chairing the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Quality Assurance, co-chairing the Section on Schizophrenia, and he is chair of the WPA Working Group on Digitalisation in Mental Health and Care.
Prof. Gaebel was the initiator, speaker and one of the principal investigators of the German Competence Network on Schizophrenia funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). His research focus includes clinical, pharmacological, and neurophysiological aspects of schizophrenia, mental health service, quality management and treatment guidelines, stigma and discrimination, e-Mental health, and the revision of classification towards DSM-5 and ICD-11.
Since 2001, Prof. Gaebel is a Member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina. In 2020, he was honored by the DGPPN with the Wilhelm-Griesinger Medal for lifetime award.