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::. CV of Dr. Hantouche Elie-Georges



CTAH - Anxiety and Mood Center
117, rue de Rennes, 75006 Paris, France
e-mail : elie.hantouche@wanadoo.fr / hantouche@ctah.eu

Dr. Hantouche graduated in medicine at the University of St. Joseph in Beirut, in 1982. From 1982 to 1987 he attended the school of specialization in psychiatry at the La Croix Hospital (Beirut, Libano) and the psychiatric departments directed by Professors Deniker and Loo at the Sainte Anne Hospital (Paris). From 1987 to 1995 Dr Hantouche was the director of the "Out-Patient Anxiety Unit" (Sainte Anne Hospital, Paris) where his research was focused on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, personally following more than 600 patients. Since then Dr. Hantouche is considered one of the most important expert on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in France. Moreover, he is the scientific advisor of the “French Association of patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”.
At the moment, he is cooperating in a project on Anxiety and Mood Disorders with the University of Paris VI (Prof. Allilaire, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière), where since 1993 he is a scientific collaborator for clinical research.
Recently he coordinated six national studies: 4 on the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (4300 patients), 1 on anxious temperament (1200) patients, 3 on new Bipolar Disorder subtypes (Mixed states, soft bipolarity and manic subtypes in a sample of 1090 patients), collaborationg with Prof. H. Akiskal (UCSD, San Diego), and 1 (612 patients) on Bipolar and Obessive Compulsive Disorder relationship, collaborating with the French Association of patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
He is author of about 180 papers, mostly on French psychiatric journals.
Moreover, he is actively involved in the organization of national and international meetings on Anxiety and Mood Disorders. In 1995 and 1998 he organized 2 international congresses on Generalized Anxiety Disorder (one in San Diego with Prof. Akiskal and one in London with Prof. Hindmarch). From 1998 he participated in more than 800 meetings on continue medical education for French physicians (general practitioners and psychiatrists).


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