• Sergio Strejilevich, President
• Gerardo Garcia Bonetta, Vice President
• Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas, Treasurer

1. To maintain and enlarge a research network among Argentine mental health professionals interested in bipolar disorders.
2. To promote awareness and education about bipolar disorder in the Argentine medical community.
3. To increase efforts in building psychoeducation and community resources for the Argentine bipolar patient.
4. To help in the promotion of ISBD values, publications, and activities.
5. To promote the ISBD among psychiatric colleagues and increase the number of active members.

Dr. Jennifer Nichols, Co-Chair
Associate Professor Katie Douglas, Co-Chair
Professor Philip Mitchell AM, Honorary Treasurer
Professor Malcolm Hopwood, Honorary Secretary
Professor Chris Davey, Immediate Past Chair

Members:

Assoc. Professor Olivia Dean
Professor Michael Berk
Dr. Maree Inder
Dr. Jon-Paul Khoo
Dr. Aswin Ratheesh
Professor Susan Rossell

The purpose of the Society is to become the Australasian forum, and an internationally recognized forum, to foster ongoing collaboration, education, research and advances in the treatment of all aspects of Bipolar and Depressive Disorders.  The Society is open to the entire spectrum of mental health professionals including basic and clinical researchers, psychiatrists, pharmacologists, psychologists, social workers, students, trainees, interested lay groups and individuals.  ASBDD is affiliated with ISBD. 

Kenneth Thau, President
Michael Pusch, Treasurer
Gregor Razumovsky, Secretary 
 

The association, whose activities are not for profit, aims to distribute and publish scientific findings about bipolar disorders ("manic depressive illness"), to physicians, nurses, relatives, patients, and pharmaceutical companies in the form of lectures, seminars, media relations and events and encourage scientific studies of new treatment strategies in bipolar disorder and collaboration and networking with other national and international companies with similar objectives, as well as the physicians, pharmacists, other professional occupations, industries, universities, agencies and bodies.

Adriane Ribeiro Rosa, President
Fabiano Alves Gomes, Vice President
Karen Jansen, Treasurer
Bruno Raposo Barros, Secretary 

1. The Brazilian Group has adopted the ISBD’s mission as its own and lists its objectives as follows:
2. To create a research network among mental health professionals interested in bipolar disorders, modeled upon the Canadian Network.
3. To promote awareness of this condition in the Brazilian society at large.
4. To help promoting awareness and education about this condition among mental health care professionals in and region.
5. To promote and support national and regional conferences to provide scientific and educational programs.
6. To help promoting ISBD values, publications and activities.

Dr. Ulises Rios, President

Dr. Alberto Aedo, Vice-president

Dra. Jimena Hermosilla, Secretary

Dr. Felipe Silva, Treasurer 

Seeks to promote education in health professionals and the community about bipolar disorders, in order to favor early diagnosis, the best standard of care based on available evidence and combat stigma.  

Gang Wang, President
Yiru Fang, Vice President
Tiebang Liu, Vice President
Ling Zhang, Treasurer
Jun Chen, Secretary
 

The mission of the ISBD Chinese Chapter is to promote domestic and international cooperation in research, education, and clinical practice in bipolar disorders. By means of these cooperation, to improve the management of bipolar disorders.

Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo, President
Juan David Palacio, Vice President
Juan Fernando Cano, Treasurer
Andrea Otero Ospina, Secretary 
Cesar Gonzalez Caro
 

The Mood Disorders Colombian Association, the official Colombian Chapter of the ISBD, has as a mission to encourage the development of psychiatry by promoting the study, teaching, difussion and research in mood disorders sciences; and will foster for the integral academical formation and practice of the professionals involved.

Francisco Jimenez, President
Karina Fallas, Vice President
Ida Solano, Secretary
Adrian Vargas, Treasurer

The mission of ISBD Costa Rica is to foster ongoing collaboration on education and research to advance the treatment of bipolar disorders and outcomes and quality of life for those living with bipolar disorder and their family members.  

Maj Vinberg, President
Ulla Knorr, Vice President
Jens D Bukh, Secretary 
Claudio Csillag, Treasurer
 

Evelyn Salame, President
Viviana Villena, Vice President
Luis Riofrio, Treasurer
Hernán Flores, Secretary

The ECUADORIAN SOCIETY OF BIPOLARITY SECTION QUITO’s mission is to improve the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, promote the investigation and production scientific in the field of bipolar disorder oriented to benefit patients, families, and the general community.

Marion Leboyer, President
Bruno Etain, Vice President
Maria Chovet, Secretary
Raoul Belzeaux, Treasurer 
 

The Cohort FACE-BD was built under the auspices of the Fondation FondaMental to follow a large cohort of BD patients in order to better understand trajectories, predict outcomes, identify mechanisms and markers of stratification, follow up the impact of therapeutic strategies, new care organisation and associated costs. BD patients included, assessed, sampled and followed-up in this cohort are recruited in the 10 Expert centers for Bipolar Patients in France. They all share same assessment procedures, data bases and biobank. Today 3900 bipolar patients have been assessed, 2200 have been assessed at least twice, 1000 have given a biological sample and more than 60 papers published.

Roberto Martinez Porras, President

Byron Recinos del Cid, Vice President and Immediate Past President

Diego Asturias Fernandez, Treasurer

Ximena Soto, Secretary

Luis Hernandez Bocaletti, Secretary of Continuous Medical Education

Paula Mendez, Secretary of Outreach and Psychoeducation

To work on research, clinical care and outreach for divulging better knowledge of Bipolar Disorders having as an ultimate goal the improvement of the quality of life of people with bipolar disorders and awareness on general population. 

Chun Lam, President
Billy Sai-On Law, Secretary 
Queenie Chin Pui-Man, Treasurer 
 

The objectives of the Society include: 

• The creation of an information network among mental health professionals interested in bipolar disorders.
• The provision of role models and collaboration in the field of bipolar disorders.
• The promotion of awareness and education about this condition among medical and mental health care professionals, and the lay community.
• The fostering of research in all aspects of bipolar disorders.
• The promotion and support of international, regional and local conferences that provide scientific and educational programs.
• The publication of a newsletter and other relevant materials.
• The support of consumer and carer awareness initiatives of bipolar disorders and collaboration with established organisations.

President: Dr. Venugopal Jhanwar
Vice President:  Dr. Y.C. Janardhan Reddy
Secretary:  Dr. M.S. Reddy
Treasurer:  Dr. Chaitanya Deepak
 

1. To promote research on bipolar disorder in Iran.
2. To improve awareness about bipolar disorder in general practitioners
3. To advance professional training on bipolar disorder mental health care providers

Andrea Fagiolini, President
Giuseppe Maina, Vice President
Paolo Brambilla, Treasurer

The association is non-political, non-denominational and non-profit-making. It exists for the exclusive pursuits of scientific objects of social benefit and excludes any commercial activities. Its purpose is to raise public awareness, to train medical and non-medical practitioners in the field of mental health, to support families of patients through education and information, and also to organize scientific studies and functions on topics related to Bipolar Disorders.

Tadafumi Kato, Chair

The goals of our society are to enhance research and clinical practice in the field of mood disorders and to distribute information on mood disorders to general practice physicians and medical professionals in other disciplines as well as to the general public.

Manuel Sanchez de Carmona, President
Omar Kawas, Vice President
Irma Corlay, Vice President
Daniela Morera, Membership Coordinator
 

• Create a research network among Mexican mental health professionals interested in bipolar disorders.
• Promote awareness and education about bipolar disorders in the Mexican medical community.
• Increase efforts in psychoeducation and community resources for the Mexican bipolar patient.
• Help to promote ISBD values, publications and activities.

Eline Regeer, MD, President
Ronald Vonk, MD, Treasurer
Raymond Brandt, MANP, Secretary 
 

The aims of the foundation are to improve the care for patients with bipolar disorder and their families in the Netherlands; to gather, develop, and disseminate knowledge of bipolar disorders with regard to diagnosis and treatment, improving psychosocial functioning and wellbeing of patients, and to stimulate research on bipolar disorder.

1. To create a research network among mental health professionals interested in bipolar disorders.
2. To promote awareness of this condition in the Portuguese society at large.
3. To help promote awareness and education about this condition among mental health care professionals in our region.
4. To promote and support national and regional conferences to provide scientific and educational programs.
5. To help promote ISBD values, publications and activities.

Heon-Jeong Lee, President
Tae Hyun Ha, Vice President
Se Joo Kim, Vice President
Sehyun Jeon, Secretary 
 

1. To create a network among mental health professionals interested in bipolar disorders. 
2. To promote awareness and education about this condition in the Korean society. 
3. To create a research network among researchers and to promote collaborative researches.
4. To promote and support national and regional conferences to provide scientific and educational programs. 
5. To help promote ISBD values, publications and activities.

Gregor Hasler, President
Martin Preisig, Past-President
Waldemar Greil, Secretary 
Thomas Muller, Treasurer

Scientific Advisory Board:
Jean-Michel Aubry
Wolfram Kawohl
Erich Seifritz 
 

The association is focused on improvement of treatment of bipolar patients and support of information and research on the pathogenesis and treatment of this disorder.

Po-See Chen, President

 

The mission, goals and objectives of Taiwan Society for Bipolar Disorders:

1. To advance culturally relevant, evidence-based bio-psycho-social research on bipolar disorders that reflects the unique characteristics of individuals in Taiwan. 
2. To reduce stigma and foster greater understanding and acceptance of bipolar disorders within Taiwanese society, promoting a compassionate and supportive environment. 
3. To educate medical professionals, the general public, and government stakeholders about bipolar disorders, while actively participating in and influencing policy-making to ensure comprehensive benefits and support systems for patients and their families. 

Vesile Senturk Cankorur, President
Kursat Altinbas
Cagdas Eker
Deniz Ceylan
Nese Yorguner

• Increase the level of awareness and knowledge of the society related to bipolar disorders, put efforts towards correcting misbelieves, stagnation, discrimination and exclusion attitudes concerning this disorder.
• Ensure that the causes of bipolar disorders, ways of protection, treatment and preventive care methods are recognized by the society, and striving to ensure that the society is educated on this subject
• Increase the knowledge of bipolar disorder patients and their families on this disease, and their skills to cope with it.
• Contribute in developing national mental health policies and legal regulations related to bipolar disorders.
• Encourage conducting medical or social scientific researches on the issues of causes of bipolar disorders, way of protection, and preventive and protective treatment, provide material support to the researches and provide scientific resources, and ensure that the results are published
• Create network of communication among the mental health workers dealing with the treatment of bipolar disorders.
• Cooperate with centers established in university or state hospitals dealing with the treatment of bipolar disorders, strengthen and support their works.
• Ensure that the information pertinent to up to date developments on the issue of bipolar disorders is included in the post-graduate trainings of the mental health workers dealing with treatment, and organize training programs towards this aim.

1. Create spaces for meeting and discussion related with the Bipolar Disorder, with psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals interested in the study and treatment of this disorder
2. Create, promote and support national and international conferences, in addition to workshops and seminars, in order to provide recent and relevant scientific information, which supports the development of continuing medical education
3. Promote awareness, diagnosis and alert in the medical community in Venezuela, and the rest of the health system to include non-psychiatric medical staff, nurses, paramedics, among others
4. Support the Venezuelan foundations of bipolar patients, their families and relatives to join to schemas suitable  of psychoeducation and support groups where we can manage and monitor these activities
5. Create and coordinate research networks of mental health professionals in Venezuela interested in the bipolar disorder and other mood disorders.  This point represents a major challenge for the ISBD Venezuela, because in our country, the local research has occurred in a very poor level, having to rely on information from other latitudes
6. To help promoting ISBD values, publications and activities, inviting other professionals to register and participate actively in the ISBD.  
7. Developing tools for statistical and epidemiological surveillance in terms of the population behavior of the disorder, thereby supporting government and private institutions who work in this area
8. Participate actively in academic exchanges in the different postgrads of psychiatry and clinical psychology at the universities of our country
9. Perform expert consensus regarding diagnosis and treatments of patients with bipolar disorders, supported by international guidelines and consensus, but with local suggestions.