President
Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Courtesy)
Weill Cornell Medicine in New York

W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, MD (Co-Course Director) is the President of the Medical University Innsbruck in Austria, where he previously served as Professor and Managing Director in the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics. He is a certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Courtesy) at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. In the past, he also had an appointment as the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Keio University Medical School Tokyo.

After receiving his medical degree from Innsbruck University, Dr. Fleischhacker trained at the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology of the Medical Faculty there. In 1987 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent 18 months at Hillside Hospital in New York.

Dr. Fleischhacker’s primary research interests relate to schizophrenia and psychopharmacology, documented in more than 400 publications. These efforts have led to participation in World Health Organization and World Psychiatric Association programs focusing on schizophrenia. He was also a member of the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety scientific committee and has served as a consultant for the European Medicines Agency. Memberships: Chairman of the European Group for Research in Schizophrenia, Fellow Emeritus of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology; Fellow Emeritus of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Fellow of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also a member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, the Austrian Society of Psychiatry (senior president) and Psychotherapy, and the Austrian Schizophrenia Society. He also serves as the Speaker on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Open Medical Institute.