Background
Mucić, Davor (DM) was born in Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Son of Ivan and Paula Mucic.
He graduated from the Medical Faculty in Rijeka and specialized psychiatry in Denmark. In line with a special interest in the use of technology in the provision of mental health (e-Mental Health), DM founded the Little Prince Psychiatric Center in Copenhagen, where he has been developing telepsychiatry since 2000.
In 2011 DM launched Telemental Health Section within EPA (European Psychiatric Association). In 2015 DM re-activated the Section on Informatics within WPA (World Psychiatric Association).
DM is Editor-in-Chief of Edorium Journal of Psychiatry and Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Pakistan Psychiatric Society. Further, DM is a reviewer for the Journal of telemedicine and Telecare and the Egyptian Journal of Psychiatry.
DM has published a number of academic papers related to the development of telepsychiatry in Denmark, such as scientific articles on the world’s first international telepsychiatry service and the world’s first “transcultural telepsychiatry service” established in 2004. The latter service is still working, linking the psychiatric ward at Rønne Hospital, on the island of Bornholm, and the Little Prince Treatment Center in Copenhagen. Accordingly, it represents the longest telepsychiatric service in Europe.
In addition to scientific articles related to telepsychiatry, DM described a number of e-mental health applications and services in the edited book ”e-Mental Health”, published by Springer in 2016.
In 2020. DM launched and coordinated an “e-Mental Health Expert Group” within the WPA to help the WPA and member societies address the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, DM initiated and is the lead author of the WPA`s “Telepsychiatry Global Guidelines”, published in 2021.
For his above-mentioned contribution, DM was awarded as a WPA Honorary Member 2020.
DM defended the first telepsychiatry-related doctoral dissertation in the EU, entitled “Telepsychiatry in assessment and/or treatment of refugees and migrants”, at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), in May 2022.