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Geoffrey M. Reed, PhD has been a Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2018 and Director of the Columbia – WHO Center for Global Mental Health since 2023. He has also been a Consultant to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization (WHO) for more than 15 years. He has worked extensively with the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico, where he was a founder of the Center for Global Mental Health Research. He is a Level 3 Member (highest level) of the National System of Researchers, National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico. Between 2008 and 2018, Dr. Reed was based at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, where he led the development of the classification of mental, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental disorders for the Eleventh Revision of WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The ICD-11 was approved by the 72nd World Health Assembly in 2019 and has been the basis for health reporting by WHO’s 194 member states since 2022. Dr. Reed was project director for the development of the diagnostic manual for use by global health professionals in clinical settings, the Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders(link is external and opens in a new window) (CDDR) throughout its entire development, from 2007 – 2024. As a foundation of the ICD-11 development process, Dr. Reed directed a rigorous program of international field studies involving thousands of clinicians around the world and producing hundreds of research articles in top scientific journals. He founded and directed the WHO Global Clinical Practice Network,(link is external and opens in a new window) comprising more than 19,000 mental health and primary care professionals from 163 countries who have contributed directly to ICD-11 through participation in field studies and to other research effort such as the impact of COVID-19 on mental health professionals. He was Co-Chair of the 2021 American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Psychology and Health Equity. He has received numerous awards, including the Robert L. Spitzer, MD Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nosology and Diagnosis in 2017 and the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology in 2021(link is external and opens in a new window).

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Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health

Feb-2007 to Present

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Who feels affected by “out of control” sexual behavior? Prevalence and correlates of indicators for ICD-11 Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in ...

Background and aims The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and correlates of indicators consistent with Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)—defined and operational...

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Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD-11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behavio...

Among the important changes in the ICD-11 is the addition of 21 new mental disorders. New categories are typically proposed to: a) improve the usefulness of morbidity statistics; b) facilita...

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Can Clinicians Use Dimensional Information to Make a Categorical Diagnosis of Paraphilic Disorders? An ICD-11 Field Study

Background The diagnosis of paraphilic disorder is a complicated clinical judgment based on the integration of information from multiple dimensions to arrive at a categorical (present/absen...

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Estimating the Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction Using the New ICD-11 Guidelines Results of the first representative, population-based German Health an...

Background: The 11th edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is due to come into force in 2022. The goal of the present partial evaluation of the GeSiD s...

  • dott image January, 2020

Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders in the ICD-11: an international perspective on key changes and controversies

An update of the chapter on Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is of great interest around ...

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Accuracy of diagnostic classification and clinical utility assessment of ICD-11 compared to ICD-10 in 10 mental disorders: findings from a web-based f...

In this web-based field study, we compared the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of 10 selected mental disorders between the ICD-11 Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CD...

  • dott image October, 2019

Current Legal Situation for Patients with Paraphilic disorders and Implications of the ICD-11 for Paraphilic Disorders for Germany

Introduction Recently the guidelines for the diagnosis of paraphilic disorders in the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), have ...

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Public stakeholders’ comments on ICD-11 chapters related to mental and sexual health

A unique strength of the development of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders has been the active input from m...

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Inpatient hospital treatment of selected sexual disorders

background Patients with the sexual medicine-relevant ICD-10 diagnoses F52, F64, F65 and F66 are treated by various medical disciplines. To date, there is a lack of data on which of these s...

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Proposals for Paraphilic Disorders in the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11)

The World Health Organization is currently developing the 11th revision of the International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), with approval of the ICD-11 by ...