Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention

Maurizio Pompili, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Suicidology at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is also the Director of the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry of his faculty and the Director of the Suicide Prevention Center at Sant'Andrea Hospital in Rome. Prof. Pompili received his M.D. degree, and completed his specialization in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude) at the Sapienza University of Rome and obtained his doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences at the same university. He has been a Visiting Scientist at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA, where he was awarded a fellowship in psychiatry. In 2008 Prof. Pompili received the American Association of Suicidology's Shneidman Award for "Outstanding contributions to research in suicidology". In addition to being the Italian Representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) for eight years, he has also been one of the Vice-Presidents of this association. He is now Co-Chair of the IASP Special Interest Group in Risk Resilience and Reasons for Living, and a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research and the American Association of Suicidology. He is President of the Suicidology Section of the Italian Psychiatric Society. Prof. Pompili has published more than 350 papers on suicide, bipolar disorders and other psychiatric conditions, including original research articles, book chapters and editorials. He has co-edited ten international books on suicide, including Phenomenology of Suicide (Springer). He ranks in the top 10 of 500 world suicide authors listed in the ISI Web of Science. He has been ranked number one on the list of global experts on suicide by Expertscape.