Bios - Board of Directors

Peter de Chateau, MD
Past President

Born in the Netherlands,1937. Married to Viveca,1962, three children,five grandchildren.Major interests: Fungi, out-door life, classical music, reading. Professional history: M.D. University of Leyden,1962; M.D. Swedish Medical Board,1967; E.C.F.M.G. Philidelphia,1972. Specialist in Pediatrics, 1971; in Child Psychiatry in 1982; in General Psychiatry in 1989. Registration in Psychotherapy in 1991. Associate Professor in Pediatrics, 1976-1981, University of Umeå and Karolinska Institute; and in Child Psychiatry 1981-1989, K.I.; Chairman Department of Child Psychiatry 1989-2002, Radboud University, since then Professor Emeritus. Academic history; Ph.D., University of Umeå, 1976; visiting fellow-professor, Cleveland, Miami, Nijmegen; consultant and referee to the Swedish Medical Research Council, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung des Wissenschaftlicher Forschung, Canadian National Research Council, and a large number of professional, scientific journals and books. From 1989-2002 Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Radboud University. Numerous publications in professional, international journals on pediatrics and psychiatry, especially neonatal care, parent-infant interaction, attachment and relations, early development, and infant psychopathology and later outcome.

Robert N. Embde, MD
International Advisor for Scientic Issues

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Antoine Guedeney, MD
Vice President and President Elect

Born in Paris, 1953. He is married with Nicole Guedeney,MD, child psychiatrist, two children. Education in Paris, Lycée Louis le Grand, medical school in Bobigny and Bichat, internship in Grenoble and Paris, working particularly with Serge Lebovici, chief residency in La Salpêtrière, with Daniel Widlocher. Army service as volunteer in Sahr, Chad, 1978-1979, as pediatrician. Child psychiatrist. Fully trained in psychoanalysis, with the Paris Institut de Psychanalyse. Private practice for 3 years, then head of infant and child guidance clinic at the Paris Institut de Puériculture, then full professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and head of department, Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard, Paris VII, since 2000. Editor of the journal Devenir, included in Psychinfo database since 2003. Founding member of WAIMH Francophone and French Marcé société. Responsible for two university degrees, in perinatal psychiatry and on applications of attachment theory.

 

Brigid Jordan, PhD
Affiliates Representative

A senior clinician social worker, she has worked for the past 20 years in the consultation liaison psychiatry program, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She works primarily with infants with psychosomatic presentations: crying; sleeping; feeding refusal; failure to thrive; hospitalized infants; and technology-dependent infants. Her Ph.D. study was a randomized, controlled trial comparing anti-reflux medications with a mental health intervention for infants with persistent irritability. She helped establish the Graduate Diploma, and Master's courses in infant mental health, at the University of Melbourne. She is founding secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health, chaired the steering committee that helped change that association into a national organization with state branches, and is president of the Australian affiliate. She also chaired the local organizing committee for the Ninth World Congress for Infant Mental Health (2004), held in Melbourne.

Elizabeth A. Tuters, MSW, RSW
Secretary

A child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, she is a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the International Psychoanalytic Association, the Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists, former Director and present Faculty and Supervisor at the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program, Faculty and Supervisor at the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, Team Leader of the Infant-Family Team at the Hincks-Dellcrest Children's Centre, and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. She is serving her third term on the Board of Directors of the WAIMH. She has published articles and presented papers in Infant Psychotherapy, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalysis, Infant Observation.