Director, Research Office of Humanistic Medicine and Behavioral Medicine of Tongji University; Director, Mental Health Center affiliated to Tongji University; Chief Physician and Academic Lead, Department of Clinical Psychology of the Affiliated Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University; Director, Institute of Philosophical Psychology, School of Humanity of Tongji University. He has been active for 37 years in the clinical practice, teaching and research of psychiatry and psychology.

Positions in Academic Societies

Vice Chairman, World Council for Psychotherapy; Executive Director, Society of Urban Mental Health, World Psychiatric Association; Member, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry; Honorary Chairman of China, DACP of Germany; Vice Chairman, Chinese Mental Health Association & Honorary Chairman, Association of Psychotherapy and Psychological Counseling; Vice Chairman, Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, Chinese Medical Association; Vice Chairman, Association of Psychosomatic Medicine, Chinese Medical Doctor Association.

Specialties:

(1) Neurosis, psychosomatic diseases, mood disorders, including insomnia, depression, anxiety, panic, hypochondriasis, psychology and sexuality, and sexual dysfunction;

(2) Other neurological and psychiatric diseases;

(3) Family, marriage, parenting and parent-child relationship issues;

(4) Interpersonal system management and elite mental health issues.

Winner of “Xiangya Famous Doctor” Award; Recipient of Designated Government Compensation Package for Outstanding Talents; Director, Institute of Mental Health of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University; Director, National Clinical Research Center （Xiangya Hospital） for Mental Disorders; Director, Laboratory for National- and Regional-level Joint Projects in Mental Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Techniques.

Positions in Academic Societies:

Chairman of the 5^th Chinese Society of Psychiatry, Chinese Medical Association; Vice Chairman and Standing Committee Member, Hunan Medical Association; Executive Committee Member, Asia College of Neuropsychopharmacology (AsCINP); Executive Committee Member, International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD).

Research Interest

Genetic and biological markers and prevention techniques & medication for severe mental diseases, including schizophrenia.

Director, Department of Psychiatry, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University; Professor, Chief Physician, Doctoral Student Advisor; Chairman, the Eighth Committee of The Chinese Society of Psychiatry, Chinese Medical Association; Standing Committee Member, Branch of Basic and Clinical Psychiatry, Chinese Neuroscience Society; Honorary Chairman, Society of Behavioral Medicine, Shanghai Medical Association; Vice Chairman, the First and Second Committees of the Branch of Psychiatric Doctors, Shanghai Medical Doctor Association; Associate Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Journal of Psychiatry.

Professor Shi has been practicing psychiatry for 37 years. His primary research interests entail the diagnosis, treatment techniques and pathogenesis of depression, anxiety disorder and schizophrenia. As the associate group lead of Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders (CCMD-3), he has conducted a long-term follow-up study on Schizo-Affective Disorder, a study on comorbid depression and anxiety, an international collaborative study on female unipolar depression (converge study), a series of study on the influencing factors of postpartum depression, and efficacy of group psychological intervention for pregnant women.

He has published 144 research papers, 58 reviews, 17 books as the editor-in-chief or associate editor-in-chief and contributed to 22 books as part of the editorial board.

Chief Physician and Professor of Beijing Anding Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Upon his graduation from the Xiangya School of Medicine of Central South University in 1986, he started working in the Department of Psychiatry at the People's Hospital of Wuhan University, where he served as a resident, Attending Physician, Associate Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Chief Physician, and Professor.

In 2002, he took a position at Beijing Anding Hospital. He was the first advisor in Beijing Anding Hospital who guided Master’s student to publish SCI papers, thus winning the Outstanding Advisor Award of Capital Medical University. He has also been active in psychological counseling. As a review expert invited by the head of the expert group for psychological counselor examinations of the Ministry of Labor, he served multiple times on the review panel for the certification of level-2 psychological counselors.

Research Interests

Diagnosis and classification of mental disorders, adolescent mental disorders and psychological problems, school refusal, geriatric mental disorders and psychological problems.

Chief Physician of the Sixth Hospital (Institute of Mental Health) of Peking University. Having been active in psychiatric clinical practice for 30 years, he brings extensive clinical experiences in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric diseases. Through years of scientific research, teaching and academic exchanges at home and abroad, he stays current in the latest development and concepts in the field and can provide patients with diagnosis and treatment of the highest professional standards.

Positions in Academic Societies

Member, Society of Psychiatry, Chinese Medical Association; Committee Member, Psychiatry and Psychology Group, Chinese Sleep Medicine Committee, Chinese Medical Doctor Association; Member, Medical Law Committee of Chinese Research Hospital Association; Member, Patient Safety Committee of Beijing Health Law Society; Standing Committee Member, Medical Law Committee of Beijing Health Law Society.

He served previously as the Deputy Director of Hospital Administration and Party Committee, and Director of Infrastructural Construction at the Sixth Hospital of Peking University. He also held other management positions including the Deputy Director of Medical Affairs, and Director of Medical Records and Statistics at Peking University International Hospital.

Dr. Cao has been active for many years in the clinical and research areas of child psychiatry and mental health. He brings extensive clinical experiences in the treatment of children with mental disorders. He is also the PI of several national research projects and a winner of multiple awards, including “Excellent Teacher” Award and “SCI Paper Citation” Award (Peking University Health Science Center), nominee for the “Capital Top-Ten Excellent Young Doctors” Award (2017), and“Beijing Excellent Doctor” Award (2018).

Specialties:

(1)  Schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), neurosis and other mental disorders;

(2) Team leader of OCD treatment programs at Beijing Yining Hospital (a high-end medical alliance with the Sixth Hospital) and at the Sixth Hospital of Peking University. Inpatient services are available;

(3) Psychotherapy and counseling, adolescent psychology, neurosis, OCD, schizophrenia, family and marriage counseling and personality analysis;

(4) Psychological interpretation with painting;

(5) Psychological interpretation of dream;

(6) Training experience of Morita therapy and group therapy in Japan;

(7) Years’ of mental health training experiences for companies.

Chief Physician

Upon his graduation from the Medical College of Wuhan University in 1982, Dr. Zhao started his career at Jingzhou Psychiatric Hospital in Hubei Province. He roles include Director, Vice President, and President.

From 1986 to 1987, he studied in a postgraduate program at the Sixth Hospital of Peking University.

In 1992, he studied at the University of Washington for over a year. In 2000, he studied at the EMBA program of National University of Singapore

In 2002 he travelled to UK, Norway, Sweden and Finland as a visiting scholar.

From 2000 to 2017, he served as VP for Medical Affairs at Beijing Minkang Hospital.

Since 2004, Dr. Zhao has been listed as a Well-Recognized Expert for Outpatient Services at the Sixth Hospital of Peking University. He has also been listed as an expert by several other organizations, including the Forensic Evaluation Group at the Ministry of Public Security, Medical Insurance Payment Review Panel as well as the Research Project Review Panel at the National Health Commission.

Chief Physician, Doctoral Student Advisor, Professor

He is currently a professor, researcher, Director of Biochemistry Research Office at the Institute of Mental Health, Peking University. He is also the Chairman of the Society of Psychiatry, Chinese Medical Association, Standing Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Psychiatry, an editorial board member of Health World - a Chinese popular science magazine, and a board member of Beijing Neuroscience Association.

He has 15 years of clinical experiences focusing on affective disorders. He also specializes in the treatment of affective disorders comorbid with endocrine disorders.

In the area of education, he teaches biological psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatric Health. He also teaches biochemistry of psychiatry for visiting scholars and national training classes for teachers in psychiatry.

Dr. Zhou has published 70 research papers including 20 SCI papers on international journals.