Di Sciascio appointed new president of the Italian Society of Psychiatry

The director of the Mental Health department of the Local Health Authority of Bari, Guido Di Sciascio, is the new national president of the Italian Society of Psychiatry. The Health Authority announces. local in a note, explaining that the "proclamation took place today at the end of the 50th national SIP congress which took place held in Bari from 5 to 8 November". Di Sciascio, elected together with Antonio Vita, ordinary of Psychiatry at the University of Brescia, will be in charge for the three-year period 2025-2028. Psychiatrist and manager with long experience, Di Sciascio has dedicated his career to building a public psychiatry model based on taking charge global of the person, on the integration between services territorial and hospital and on the valorization of the teams multidisciplinary. "My path in the Italian Society of Psychiatry is started over twenty-five years ago - he explains - in all these For years I have been committed to promoting paths innovative diagnostic-therapeutic methods, but also to build empathic relationships of trust, convinced that competence scientific and the human dimension are inseparable". "My presidency - he continues - will be dedicated to strengthening the role of public psychiatry and the departmental model, but also to promote shared governance with all the hospital and university components, which focuses on patients and families."