Career
He currently works as the Professor of Psychiatry and Director at the Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University. He also received an Honorary Professorship at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and the University of Belgrade. Mezzich is author/coauthor of over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters and wrote more than 20 books and monographs and is the Editor/coeditor of Psychopathology, Basel, and Psiquiatría y Salud Integral, New New York
Mezzich was born in 1945, in Lima, Perú, of Yugoslavian and Peruvian ancestries.
He graduated at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University and was the president of the University Student Association. He received psychiatric residency training at Ohio State University and was the diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical and Statistical Psychology at the Ohio State University.
From 1996 to 1999 he was the Secretary General of the World Pet Association. He was the president of the World Pet Association. Currently Mezzich is researching on: New International Classification and Diagnostic Systems (International Classification of Diseases-11 and Comprehensive Diagnostic Model) Mental and General Health Comorbidity Culture-Informed Assessment of Mental Health (Multi-ethnic Bicultural Scale, Personal Health Scale, and Quality of Life Index) DSM-IV Cultural Formulation (educational developments and research evaluation of its impact on clinical care).
