Driss Moussaoui
President
World Health Organization
Italy
Biography
Driss Moussaoui is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine. In 1979, he founded and is still the Chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca, Morocco, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health and Neurosciences since 1992. He is the past-president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He was honoured as “Knight of Throne Wissam” of the Kingdom of Morocco in 1993 and received the Prize of the President of Tunisia in Medicine in 1988.
Research Interest
His special interests include transcultural psychiatry, Child and adolescent psychiatry
