Dr Afzal Javed is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Nuneaton and an Honorary Clinical Associate Teacher at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick UK, and Chair of the Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore (Pakistan) He graduated from King Edward Medical College Lahore and received specialist training in Psychiatry in Pakistan and UK (University of Edinburgh and Institute of Psychiatry &Maudsley Hospital London). He has served, amongst others, also as the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Deputy Registrar, member of the Board of International Affairs and Chair of the West Midlands Division, as well as executive committee member of the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry. He is currently also working as: President of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR); Secretary for Sections of the WPA; Founding Secretary General Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations (AFPA); Advisor & Founder Secretary General of South Asian Forum on Mental Health & Psychiatry (SAF); and Advisor SAARC Psychiatric Federation (SPF). His areas of special interest are psychosocial rehabilitation, social and transcultural psychiatry and psychiatric research. His academic skills have been invaluable when publishing more than 95 scientific papers and being author of six books/monographs on different topics of psychiatry.

You can email Dr Afzal Javed, at afzalj@gmail.com