CommitteesWFSBP History – Defining Moments
24 September 1974, Buenos Aires
Prof. Edmund Fisher opened the 1st WFSBP Congress with the following speech:
"In the name of the Executive Committee of the First World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, we wish to send a message to all biological psychiatrists and specialists of allied disciplines throughout the world expressing our pleasure which is based on two fundamental factors. Firstly, that this event brings together for the first time, biological psychiatrists from the four corners of the Earth, and secondly, because, during the Congress, an Assembly will be held which will achieve the purpose for which so many of us have been working for many years ..."
On 27 September 1974
During the General Assembly was founded the World Federation of Biological Psychiatry (WFBP). The name WFSBP came up only in 1981, in Stockholm.
| 1st Executive Committee: | |
| President: | Edmund Fisher (Argentina) |
| Vice-Presidents: | Herman Van Praag (Holland) H. Mitsuda (Japan) J. Yayura-Tobias (Argentina) |
| Secretary: | Sabit Gaboy (USA) |
| Associate Secretary: | O. H. Arnold (Austria) |
| Treasurer: | M.A. Perez Toledo (Mexico) |
| Associate Treasurer: | J.M.C. Holden (England) |
| Members: | R. Debuck (Belgium) G. Osuide (Nigeria) Nils Noya-Tapia (Bolivia) Carlo Perris (Sweden) |
| Alternate Members: | M. Feldman (Venezuela) A. Boulton (Canada) A.A. Long (Italy) Costas Stefanis (Greece) |