Vice Chair and Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry Department Head
Innsbruck University Clinics
Austria
W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, MD, is a certified psychotherapist with a specialty in behavioral therapy. Prof. Fleischhacker is a member of the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals, coeditor of the Schizophrenia Section for Current Opinion in Psychiatry and managing editor of the Journal Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie.
Prof. Fleischhacker's main research interests relate to schizophrenia and psychopharmacology. They have led to participation in World Health Organization and World Psychiatric Association programs focusing on schizophrenia. He is also a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products.
Prof. Fleischhacker's is also Chairman of the European Group for Research in Schizophrenia and of the Schizophrenia Section of the Association of European Psychiatrists; Vice President of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP); and a member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Austrian Schizophrenia Society, the Austrian Association of Biological Psychiatry and the European Advisory for Data Quality.
After receiving his medical degree from Innsbruck University, Prof. Fleischhacker trained at the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology of the Medical Faculty there. In 1987 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent 18 months at Hillside Hospital in New York.