Professor Fernando Lolas Stepke

Professor and Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, Central University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Biography

Fernando Lolas Stepke was Director of the Bioethics Program of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) between 1998–2010, and a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee. He is an International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and was President of the Chilean Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Secretary-General of the World Association of Social Psychiatry, and Vice-President of the World Federation of Mental Health. He is also a member of the editorial board of international journals and directs the trilingual indexed journal "Acta Bioethica".