(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has appointed Professor Peter Woodruff as chairman of Psychiatry Department.
The appointment is described a key development for HMC as it works towards a transformation of mental health services in Qatar, in keeping with the National Mental Health Strategy 2013-2018.
"As an organisation, we greatly value the kind of expertise and experience that Professor Woodruff brings with him," HMC's managing director Hanan al-Kuwari said.
"We are very pleased to welcome Professor Woodruff who, alongside our existing specialists, will play an important part in our future mental health service developments," she added.
Woodruff arrives from the University of Sheffield in the UK where he has been Professor of Academic Clinical Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, since 1999.
There he set up the internationally renowned Sheffield Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory (SCANlab) and was deputy head of Neuroscience.
His research interests include studies of the phenomenology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia, identifying mechanisms that lead to auditory hallucinations, and determining how these symptoms may be alleviated using new techniques and treatments.
"I am convinced that wherever we are in the world, there needs to be a strong alliance and effective collaborations between Universities and Health Systems, which I am pleased to see is nurtured by the goals of HMC's Academic Health System," Professor Woodruff said.
Alongside appointing new, highly qualified experts in the field of mental health to join their existing Psychiatry Department, which is the main provider of specialist mental healthcare in the country, HMC is developing its mental health services to ensure that treatment options cater to the diversity of patients and their individual treatment needs -including offering inpatient, outpatient, community and homecare options.
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