Wim van den Brink (1952)
Background:
After he studied Medicine (Free University, Amsterdam), from which he graduated in 1981, het was trained as a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Groningen (trainer: Prof. Robert Giel) and Columbia University in New York (trainer: Prof. Bruce Dohrenwend). In 1989, he attained his Ph.D. degree with a thesis on the reliability and validity of the diagnosis of DSM-III personality disorders (supervision: Prof. Robert Giel en Dr. Hans Ormel).
In 1992, he was appointed Extraordinary Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Addiction Healthcare and since 1997 he is a full Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA).
In 1993, he was a co-founder of the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research (AIAR) with Professor Jan Walburg as its first director. In 1995, he was appointed director of the AIAR.
In 2005, he received the first Science-award from the Netherlands Psychiatric Association.
He has been (co)author of more than 350 international and 150 Dutch scientific publications and chapters in books. He supervised more than 40 dissertations. Today, he is supervising about 15 Ph.D. students.
Other activities:
- Editor for European Addiction Research
- Associate Editor for Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Member of the Editorial Board for Addiction
- Member of the Editorial Board for Addiction Biology
- Member of the Editorial Board for Sucht
- International advisor for Suchttherapie
- Member of the Editorial Board for Addiction Abstracts
- Member of the Editorial Board for International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
- Editors’ advisor for Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie
- Scientific Director of the Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH)
- Chair of the Committee of the Interdisciplinary Guideline for the Treatment of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence
- Member of the ZonMw Committee on Addiction
- Member of the ZonMw Committee on Effectiveness and Efficiency in Health Care
- Chair for the European Association of Substance Abuse Research (EASAR)
- Advisor to the DSM-V Development Committee of the American Psychiatric Association
- Member of the International Scientific Committee of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Title:
Prof. Dr.
Position:
- Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
- Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research (AIAR)
Address:
Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research
Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam
Department of Psychiatry, room PA1.188
Meibergdreef 5
1105 AZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Post address:
P.O. BOX 22660
1100 DD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone + 31 20 891 36 28
E-mail:
w.vandenbrink@amc.uva.nl
b.j.delange@amc.uva.nl