The Personalised Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, through its network of international members, engages in scholarly and scientific activities designed to promote and educate on the possible role of personalized and precision medicine approach in psychiatry and mental health.
More specifically the Personalised Psychiatry Section:
1- Disseminates information about personalised/precision medicine approach in psychiatry through books, symposia and courses offered at international meetings and congresses.
2- Advancing scientific knowledge about personalised medicine in psychiatry through collaborative research and publications by its members of scientific papers supporting the validity of personalised medicine approach.
3- Promoting the development of “Personalised Medicine in Psychiatry” an Elsevier Journal launched in 2017 by Giampaolo Perna, Chair of the section, and Charles Nemeroff, co-Chair of the section.