Report from the General Assembly of the World Federation of ADHD
The General Assembly of the World Federation of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder took place in Berlin on May 27th, 2011.
At the General Assembly Professor Luis Rohde from Brazil was elected as new President of the World Federation, while Professor Susanne Walitza from Switzerland was elected as Vice President, both for the next term of office of four years. Professor Thome from Germany stays Secretary General and Professor Gerlach from Germany continues as Treasurer of the Board.
The Board thanked former President Professor Warnke and Vice-President Professor Riederer, both from Germany, for their outstanding work and contribution to the World Federation.
Medal of the World Federation of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
The World Federation of ADHD is proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Eric Taylor has been awarded with the Medal of the World Federation of ADHD. This medal was awarded for the first time this year and was presented at the Third International Congress on ADHD in Berlin, Germany in May 2011 by Congress President Prof. Dr. Warnke.
The silver medal was named after Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894), a German psychiatrist, poet and children's book author. Amongst others he wrote the famous Struwwelpeter in which ADHD-like symptoms are described. From 1851 until his retirement in 1888 he was the Director of the “Asylum for the Insane and Epileptic” in Frankfurt/ Main, the city's mental hospital. He is considered to be the first representative of child and adolescent psychiatry.
The Award honours the outstanding contributions of Prof. Dr. Taylor to clinical care, teaching and research for the benefit of individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Prof. Dr.Eric Taylor is an emeritus professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at King’s College London. He has researched neuropsychiatric issues – especially, causes and course of ADHD - and treated affected people, since 1971. He has been an honorary consultant at The Maudsley since 1977. He chaired the NICE guidelines development group for ADHD; serves as Chair of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health; and is also a Trustee of the National Academy of Parenting Practitioners and a Non-Executive Director of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
His research won the Ruane Prize, for severe child psychopathologies, from NARSAD and he is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. His publications include more than 200 scientific papers and several books.