Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Martin Bohus, MD, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
Martin Bohus, MD, PhD is the Medical Director at the Central Institute of Mental Health and has held the position of the Chair of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University since 2003. Dr. Bohus received his M.D. at Freiburg Medical School and did his residency in Psychiatry and Neurology at Freiburg Medical School. He made his specialty in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and in Psychosomatic Medicine. He has received several awards for psychotherapy research. He is a Board Member of the German Association of Psychiatry (DGPPN), Vice President of the European Society for the Studies of Personality Disorders (ESSPD), President of the German Association for DBT and co-Chair of the International Strategic Planning Meeting for Dialectical Behavior Therapy (SPM). He was President and Initiator: 1st International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder, Berlin 2010 and since 2012 he is a Spokesperson of the Clinical Research Unit “Mechanisms of Disturbed Emotion Processing in BPD”. He has currently published 220 articles and book chapters, mainly on borderline personality disorders.
John M. Oldham, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, United States of America
John M. Oldham, MD is currently Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA. He previously held the Barbara and Corbin J Robertson, Jr Endowed Chair for Personality Disorders and served as Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff of the Menninger Clinic. Earlier in his career, Dr. Oldham was Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health, and the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2002, Dr. Oldham became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Executive Director of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, and he relocated to Houston in 2007. Dr. Oldham is the Past President of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the American College of Psychiatrists, Past President of the New York County District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the South Carolina Psychiatric Association, Past President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and Past President of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders.
Christian Schmahl, MD, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
Christian Schmahl, MD, PhD is Medical Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim and spokesperson of the Research Training Group “Impact of Adverse
Childhood Experiences on Psychosocial and Somatic Conditions across the Lifespan”. Dr Schmahl received his M.D. at Giessen Medical School and did a residency in Psychiatry at Freiburg Medical School as well as a residency in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Central Institute of Mental Health. He also spent a one-year research
fellowship at Yale and Emory University. In 2007 he received the Young Researchers Award of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders”, in 2013 the Psychotherapy Research Award of the German Association of
Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, and in 2018 the Treatment and Research Advancements for Borderline Personality Disorder Star Award. He has published more than 250 articles and book chapters.
Section Editors
Annegret Krause-Utz, PhD, Leiden University, Netherlands
Alexandra Philipsen, MD, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Carla Sharp, PhD, University of Houston, United States of America
Carla Sharp, PhD is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Houston and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research. She also directs the Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment Center and the Developmental Psychopathology Lab at the University of Houston. Her work has significantly advanced the scientific understanding of the phenomenology, causes, correlates, and treatment of personality pathology across the lifespan. She is the recipient of the 2016 Mid-career award, North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the 2018 Award for Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Personality Disorders Institute in New York. She is past president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, the current Associate Editor for APA journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, editor of Personality and Mental Health, and a workgroup member for updating the American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder. She has published over 350 peer-reviewed publications in addition to numerous chapters and books.
Editorial Board
Anthony Bateman, MA, FRCPsych, University College London, United Kingdom
Andrew Chanen, MBBS, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Alexander L. Chapman, PhD, RPsych, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Ulrich Ebner-Priemer, PhD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Azucena Garcia-Palacios, PhD, Jaume I University, Spain
Brin Grenyer, OAM, PhD, University of Wollongong, Australia
Markus Heinrichs, PhD, University of Freiburg, Germany
Andreas Heinz, MD, PhD, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Sabine Herpertz, MD, Heidelberg University, Germany
Michael Kaess, MD, University of Bern, Switzerland
Nikolaus Kleindienst, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
Harold Koenigsberg, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States of America
Klaus Lieb, MD, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Paul Links, MD, FRCPC, Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada
Shelley McMain, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
Lars Mehlum, MD, PhD, University of Oslo, Norway
Paul Moran, MD, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Babette Renneberg, PhD, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Michelle Townsend, PhD, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ulrich Voderholzer, MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Chun Wang, MD, PhD, Nanjing Medical University, China
Mary C. Zanarini, EdD, Harvard Medical School, United States of America
