Prim. Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Musalek

Education and further training:

1979: Obtained MD from the University of Vienna

1986: Qualified as a specialist for Psychiatry and Neurology

1990: Qualified as a Senior University Lecturer for Psychiatry (Habilitation)

1993: Qualified as a doctor of Psychosomatic Medicine and as a Psychotherapist 

1993/1994: Completed «Postgraduate university training for executives in the medical field» at the University of Vienna 
 

Professional activities:

1979 - 1986: Medical practice at the University Clinic for Psychiatry in Vienna, at the socio-psychiatric outpatient clinics of Burgenland’s Psychosocial Service and the outpatient clinics for alcoholics at the Anton Proksch Institute

1986 - 1996: Consultant psychiatrist at the Sisters of Mercy hospital in the 6th district of Vienna

1986 - 1989: Head of the outpatient clinic for dermatozoic delusion syndrome at the II. Dermatology Clinic in Vienna

1989 - 2001: Head Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Vienna
Head of the newly established D.P.P Clinic (Liaison Clinic for Dermatology, Parasitology and Psychiatry) at the University Clinic for Dermatology

2001 – 2011: Head of Department II for Alcohol and Medication Addiction at the Anton Proksch Institute

2004: Appointed Medical Director of the Anton Proksch Institute

2011 – : Head of Department I at the Anton Proksch Institute

Honorary and other activities:

Expert witness in the field of psychiatry and neurology

Associate professor for psychiatry at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna

Past President of the Austrian Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

President of the European Society for Aesthetics and Medicine

Deputy Head of the research unit at UMIT (Universität für Medizinische Informatik und Gesundheitswissenschaften)

Visiting professor at the Sigmund Freud University

President of the European Society on Treatment of Alcohol Dependence and Related Disorders (ESTAD)

Editor of the journals «Psychiatrie & Psychotherapie» and «Spectrum Psychiatrie»

Member of the advisory boards of the journals «Psychopathology», «Journal für Neurologie, Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie», «Journal of Dermatology and Psychosomatics» and «Independent Psychiatry Journal» of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia

Member of the editorial boards of «Arzneimittelprofil» and «Clinicum neuropsy» and of the scientific advisory council of «Die Psychiatrie»

Memberships:

• Executive Committee of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA)
• EPA Board
• Scientific Programme Committee of the EPA
• Secretary for Sections of the EPA
• EPA Delegate of the Psychiatric Department and the Board of Psychiatry of the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialists (UEMS)
• Chair of the EPA Section Psychopathology
• Founding member of the EPA Section for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
• Founding member of the EPA Section for Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Vice-Chairman of the World Psychiatric Association Section Clinical Psychopathology
• Honorary member of Società Italiana di Psicopatologia
• Member of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, Guideline Task Force on Addiction Disorders and Nosology
• Member of the Task Force on Marketing Communication of the European Forum for Responsible Drinking (EFRD)
• Institute for Neurophysiological Psychology
• Member of the working group of the alcohol forum of the European Commission
• Chief medical officer (oberster Sanitätsrat) for Austria
• Consensus Panel on the Development of the S2 Guideline «Compulsive Disorders» of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN)
• Recommended Guidance Steering Group (EPA)