Susanne Walitza

Susanne Walitza, MD, MSc, is a Full Professor (Chair) of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. She is the Head of Department and the Medical & Research Director of the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Zurich and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich (Switzerland). Since 2022 she is also the Head of the Academic Medical Board of the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, a position she previously held from 2018 to 2020. From 2015 to 2017 she was the Vice Dean for Clinical Education at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich. She graduated with an MD (University of Wurzburg, Germany) in 1999 and also holds an MSc in psychology (Technical University of Berlin, Germany), is a certified specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy and holds a certificate in forensic child and adolescent psychiatry. Her current research interests include the clinical pictures and phenotyping (psychological and neuropsychiatric aspects) as well as the genetics and neuroimaging of (developmental) disorders in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, in particular ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and tic disorders. She has lectured and published widely within the field, with over 350 publications (peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, guidelines). In addition, she has been part of numerous national and international research projects, has acted as editor, reviewer and consulting expert for several international journals and continues to be a member / board member of many national and international (psychiatric) societies, associations, centers, journals, and other institutions.