2004
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Pierre Pichot

2005
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Arvid Carlsson Nobel Laureate 2000

2006
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Hagop Akiskal

2007
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Lewis Judd

2008
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Kostas Stefanis

2009
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Juan Lopez Ibor

2010
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Nancy Andreasen

2011
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Semir Zeki
Professor of Neuroesthetics
University College London UK

His interests include the functional organization of the visual brain, the neurobiology of knowledge and the neural sources of aesthetic appreciation and creativity.

Prizes include: Prix Science pour l’art (Paris, 1991); Rank Prize in opto-electronics (Rank Foundation, 1992); King Faisal International Prize in Biology, 2004; Erasmus Medal (Academia Europeae, 2008).

2012
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Zoltan Rihmer

Zoltán Rihmer received his medical diploma at the University of Pécs, Hungary in 1971. Till 2007 he worked at the National Institute for Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest, as the Director and Head of the In-and Outpatient Department of Psychiatry. From 1995 he is a professor of psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest. His special interest is the clinical and biological aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, and particularly suicide. He has published more than 330 scientific articles/book chapters and four books. He received the Brickell Suicide Research Award of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, the Life Work Award of he Hungarian Psychiatric Association in 2005, the Arateaus Award, the “Dr. Szabó György Award” of the Hemingway Foundation and the Lifetime Achivement Award of the European Bipolar Forum (2011).

2013
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Norman Sartorius
Professor of Psychiatry, Geneva

Professor Norman Sartorius, was the first Director of the Division of Mental Health of WHO.  Subsequently he served as President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and of the Association of European Psychiatrists (EAP).  He is the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes and a member of the Geneva Prize Foundation having been its President 2004-2008.  Dr Sartorius holds professorial appointments at the Universities of Beijing, London, Prague, St Louis, New York and Zagreb.  He has published more than 400 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, authored or co-authored several books and edited a number of others.  He is corresponding member of the many academies and holds honorary doctorates of several universities.  He is the Co-editor of three scientific journals and a member of editorial and advisory boards of many scientific journals. He speaks Croatian, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.

2014
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Hans Jurgen Moeller

2015
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Siegfried Kasper

Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Has published 520 in PubMed listed publications (Citation Index: 16.373, Hirsch-Index: 62) and more than 250 books or book chapters, in various areas of psychiatry.

2017
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Constantin Soldatos

Professor C.R.Soldatos graduated from the Athens University Medical School. For the last 50 years, he has served as faculty member in the Departments of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, Pennsylvania State University and New York Medical College. During his academic carrier, he became Associate Director of the Sleep Research and Treatment Center at Pennsylvania State University, Director of the Sleep Research Unit and Sleep Disorders Center at Athens University, Chairman of the 2nd Department of Psychiatry (Attikon Hospital) as well as the 1st Department of Psychiatry (Eginition Hospital) at the University of Athens. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Mental Health Care Unit at the Evgenidion Hospital of the University of Athens. Since June 2013 Prof. Soldatos served as President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) for a two year term. He is now serving as a member of the Executive Committee of WFSBP in his capacity as the Past President for a two year period (2015-2017).

2018
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
George Chrousos

Dr. George Chrousos is Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology and Chairman of the First Department of Pediatrics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, and former Chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Chrousos is universally regarded as one of the most prominent paediatricians and endocrinologists. His work has been cited over 132,000 times (H-index >179), making him one of the most cited physician-scientists in both Clinical Medicine and Biology and Biochemistry and the top cited clinical pediatrician or endocrinologist in the world. He has received numerous major awards, including the Fred Conrad

Koch Award, the highest award of the US Endocrine Society. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the US National Academy of Medicine.

2019
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Bert Sakmman

Physikum (Medicine) University of Tuebingen, 1964, University of Munich, 1967

1969-1970 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Psychiatry, Munich, Dept. of Neurophysiology (Prof. O.D. Creutzfeldt)

1971-1973 British Council Fellow, Dept. of Biophysics, University College London (Prof. B. Katz)

1985 Director, Dept. of Cell Physiology, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen

1989 Director, Dept. of Cell Physiology, MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg

2007-present Head of Emeritus Research Group “Columns in silico” MPI of Neurobiology, Martinsried

2009-2012 Inaugural Director and Research Group head, Max Planck Florida Institute, Jupiter/ FL/ USA

1991 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology

2020
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Stephen Stahl

Prof. Stephen Stahl received his undergraduate and medical degrees from University of Chicago and Northwestern University as a member of the honors program. He held faculty positions at Stanford University, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Institute of Psychiatry London and the Institute of Neurology London. Currently, he is a professor at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and is an Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge in the UK. He also directs psychopharmacology services and academic programs for California Department of State Hospital System, where he also heads their assessment and treatment efforts to reduce violence.

He currently serves as editor-in-chief of CNS Spectrums and associate editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. He is the author of more than five hundred scientific articles and book chapters, 33 books and over 1600 scientific presentations and abstracts published.

2021
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Hans Kluge

Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge began is WHO Regional Director for Europe. He has 25 years of experience in medical practice and public health in numerous settings around the world. On assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Belgium from 1995, his international experience started in emergencies, working in Liberia and Somalia, coordinating a tuberculosis (TB) control programme and providing medical and public health services in conflict zones. Dr Kluge’s work for MSF in the area of TB control continued with a posting coordinating programmes in prisons in Siberia, and then as the Regional TB Advisor for former Soviet Union countries in Moscow, Russian Federation.

In 2009, Dr Kluge moved to the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and the following year was appointed Director of the Division of Health Systems and Public Health, and since then one of his main focuses of interest was international mental health.

2022
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Afzal Javed

Dr. Afzal Javed is a Consultant Psychiatrist & Honorary Professor, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham & Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick UK. He is also chairman of Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre & a Board member of Fountain House Lahore. His role in international psychiatry is highlighted by his current position at World Psychiatric Association (WPA) as President from October 2020 to October 2023.

He has also been the Past Presidents of Asian Federation of Psychiatrists Associations (AFPA) from 2017-19 & World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) from 2012-15. His areas of special interest are Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Psychiatric Research. His academic skills have been invaluable when publishing more than 175 scientific papers and being author of six books/monographs on different topics of psychiatry.

He recently received one of the highest Civil Award (Sitar -I Imtiaz) by Government of Pakistan.

2023
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Bill Fullford

KWM (Bill) Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School; and Founder Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (valuesbasedpractice.org).

His publications include Moral Theory and Medical Practice, The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is Lead Editor for the Oxford book series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry and Founder Editor and Chair of the Advisory Board of the international journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP). His Essential Values-based Practice (2012), co-authored with Ed Peile, is the launch volume for a book series that he edits for Cambridge University Press on Values-based Medicine.

2024
Aristoles Gold Medal for Life-Time Achievement in Mental Health
Joseph Zohar

Professor Zohar is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He is also the President of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) and Past-President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). Professor Zohar founded and chair the task force of Neuroscience based Nomenclature (NbN). He also founded the Israeli Consortium on PTSD, and the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS). Prof. Zohar is also a board member of the International Master in Affective Neuroscience and a member of the European Group for Study of Resistant Depression (GSRD).

He has authored over 450 papers and authored or co-authored 19 books focusing on Resistant Depression, OCD, PTSD, and Neuroscience based Nomenclature (NbN), and was the founding associate editor of CNS Spectrums and of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.