Past Task Forces

Biomarkers

Lead: L. Trevor Young, Canada; Benicio Frey, Canada 

Members:  Ana Andreazza, Michael Berk, Seetal Dodd, Brisa Fernandes, Sophia Frangou, Benicio Frey, Mark Frye, Benjamin Goldstein, G. Hall, Josselin Houenou, Stephane Jamain, Marcia Kauer-Sant’Anna, Marion Leboyer, Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo, Gin Malhi, Valerie Taylor, Lakshmi Yatham, Trevor Young

Clinical Trials

Lead: Mauricio Tohen, USA

Members: Charles Bowden, John Geddes, Andrew Nierenberg

Community Engagement

Lead: Erin Michalak, Canada

Members:  Steven Barnes, Canada; Robert Belmaker, Israel; Leslie Berk, Australia; Michael Berk, Australia; Allen Doederlein, USA; Rachelle Hole, Canada; Sheri Johnson, USA; Steven Jones, UK; Fiona Lobban, UK; Victoria Maxwell, Canada; John McManamy, USA; Greg Murray, Australia; Cathy Petchel, USA; Manuel Sanchez, Mexico; Mauricio Tohen, USA; Samson Tse, Hong Kong; Muffy Walker, USA

Diagnostic Guidelines

Leads: Nassir Ghaemi, USA; Samuel Gershon, USA, KN Roy Chengappa, USA

Members:  David Dunner, Robert Hirschfeld, Roger McIntyre, Lakshmi Yatham, John Z. Sadler, Philip Mitchell, Mario Maj, Serge Beaulieu, Michael Bauer, Fred Goodwin, Paul Grof, Jules Angst, Eduard Vieta, Benny Lafer, Kenneth Schaffner, Robert Findling, Guy Goodwin, William Fulford, Trisha Suppes, James Phelps, Jacob Katzow, Gordon Johnson, Boris Birmaher, Eric Youngstrom, Frederick Cassidy, Franco Benazzi, Ralph Kupka

Guidelines for the Safety and Monitoring of Bipolar Disorder Treatments

Leads: Michael Berk, Australia; Felicity Ng, Ausgtralia

Members: Serge Beaulieu, Michael Berk, Frederick Cassidy, Nicol Ferrier, Oommen K. Mammen, Felicity NG, Gary Sachs, Ingeborg Wilting, Lakshmi Yatham

Mixed States

Leads: Trisha Suppes, USA; Alan Swann, USA

Members:  Won-Myong Bahk, Michael Bauer, Mark Frye, Kyooseob Ha, Beny Lafer, Giulio Perugi, Jan Scott, Trisha Suppes, Alan Swann

Nomenclature

Lead: Mauricio Tohen, USA

Members:  Michael Berk, Charles Bowden, Joseph Calabrese, KN Roy Chengappa, Francesc Colom, Ellen Frank, Nassir Ghaemi, Guy Goodwin, Heinz Grunze, Shigenobu Kanba, Flavio Kapczinski, Gin Malhi, Philip Mitchell, Willem Nolen, Gary Sachs, Trisha Suppes, Mauricio Tohen, Eduard Vieta, Lakshmi Yatham

Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

Leads:  Benjamin Goldstein, Canada; Eric Youngstrom, USA

Members: Boris Birmaher, USA; Gabrielle Carlson, USA; Christoph Correll, USA; Melissa Delbello, USA; ; Robert Findling, USA; Jean Frazier, USA; Mary Fristad, USA; Manon Hillegers, The Netherlands; Hyo-Won Kim, S. Korea; Joan Luby, USA; David Miklowitz, USA; Guillermo Perez-Algorta, UK; Janet Wozniak, USA; Cristian Zeni, Brazil 

Prospective Offspring Studies and Treatment Trials (POST)

Lead: Philip Mitchell, Australia (Chair) and Martin Preisig, Switzerland (Deputy Chair)

Members: Frank Bellivier, France; Boris Birmaher, USA; Elisa Brietzke, Canada; Anne Duffy, Canada; Mark Ellenbogen, Canada; Melissa Green, Australia; Paul Grof, Canada; Manon Hillegers, The Netherlands; Lars Kessing, Denmark; Josephine Loftus, Monaco; David Miklowitz, USA; Willem Nolan, The Netherlands; John Nurnberger, USA; Rudolf Uher, Canada

Suicide

Lead: Ayal Schaffer, Canada

Members:  Lars Vedel Kessing, Nancy Diaz Granados, Tina Goldstein, Doris Moreno, Carlos Zarate, Zoltán Rihmer, Frederick Cassidy, Kyooseob Ha, Erkki Isometsä, Lakshmi Yatham, Jen-Michel Azorin, Annette Beautrais, Catherine Reis, Gustavo Turecki, Yuan-Hwa Chou, Anthony Levitt, Mark Sinyor, Abraham Weizman, Leonardo Tondo

The Role of Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder

Lead: Eduard Vieta, Spain

Members: Hagop Akiskal, Lori Altshular, Jay Amsterdam, Jen-Michel Azorin, Ross Baldessarini, Michael Bauer, Michael Berk, Boris Birmaher, David Bond, Charles Bowden, Joseph Calabrese, Frederick Cassidy, Francesc Colom, Rif El-Mallakh, Robert Findling, Kostas Fountoulakis, Mark Frye, Nassir Ghaemi, Paolo Girardi, Joseph Goldberg, Ana Golzalez-Pinto, Frederick Goodwin, Guy, Goodwin, Heinz Grunze, Kyooseob Ha, Elie Hantouche, Robert Hirschfeld, Shigenobu Kanba, Flavio, Kapczinski, Siegfried Kasper, Tadafumi Kato, Terence Ketter, Athanasios Koukopoulos, Beny Lafer, Gabriele Leverich, Cheng-Ta Li, Rasmus Licht, Carlos Jaramillo Lopez, Glenda MacQueen, Gin Malhi, Anabel Martínez-Arán, Lorenzo Mazzarini, Susan McElroy, Philip Mitchell, Hans Mӧller, Andrew Nierenberg, Willem Nolen, Aysegul Ozerdem, Iszabella Pacchiarotti, Gordon Parker, Roy Perlis, Giulio Perugi, Robert Post, Zoltan Rihmer, Janusz Rybakowski, Gary Sachs, Alessandro Serretti, Daniel Souery, Trisha Suppes, Michael Thase, Mauricio Tohen, Leondardo Tondo, Juan Undurraga, Marc Valenti, Gustavo Vazquez, Lakshmi Yatham, Aysegul Yildiz, Allan Young, Carlos Zarate 

The Role of Neurocognition in Bipolar Disorders

Lead: Lakshmi Yatham, Canada

Members:  Omer Aydemir, Katherine Burdick, Carrie Bearden, KN Roy Chengappa, Sandra Dittmann, Sophia Frangou, David Glahn, Joseph Goldberg, Gin Malhi, Anabel Martínez-Arán, Aysegul Ozerdem, Ivan Torres, Lakshmi Yatham

Transcultural 

Lead: Eric Youngstrom, USA and  Ketil Oedegaard, Norway 

Members: Abdullah Aldaoud, Saudi Arabia; Carlo Altamura, Italy; Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, India; Robert Belmaker, Israel; Lesley Berk, Australia; Michael Berk, Australia; Harriet Birabwa, Uganda; Sibel Cakir, Turkey; Steven Dilsaver, USA; Ole Bernt Fasmer, Norway; Juan Francisco Galvez, Colombia; Christine Oedegaard, Norway; Danilo Quiroz, Chile; Stephanie Salcedo, USA; Manuel Sanchez, Mexico; Christian Simhandl, Austria; Mauricio Tohen, USA; Gustavo Vazquez, Argentina

Women's Health

Lead: Aysegul Ozerdem, Turkey

Members: Veerle Bergink, The Netherlands; William Bobo, USA; Irma Corlay-Noriega, Mexico; Rodrigo Dias, Brazil; Arianna DeFlorio, USA; Benicio Frey, Canada; Bart Geerling, The Netherlands; Wendy Marsh, USA; Roger McIntyre, Canada; Trine Munk-Olsen, Denmark; Natalie Rasgon, USA; Jan Scott, UK; Verinder Sharma, Canada; Anja Stevens, The Netherlands; Michael Thomson, Canada