ICD-11 Diagnostic Requirements for Mental,
Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders:
An Online Comprehensive Course
13 July – 14 July 2024 (8-hour sessions each day)
Modality: Online “live” course
Sponsored by:
The Global Mental Health Academy
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
The Indian Association for Social Psychiatry
The Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health
Course Description
The Eleventh Revision of the International Classification
of Diseases (ICD-11) was approved by the World Health
Assembly in May 2019 and took effect as the basis for
health reporting by World Health Organization (WHO)
Member states in 2022. Countries around the world
are in the process of implementing the ICD-11 in their
clinical and health information systems, and this process
will continue during the next few years. A detailed
diagnostic manual for use in clinical settings—Clinical
Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for ICD-11
Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
(CDDR)—was published in March 2024. The CDDR were
developed by the WHO Department of Mental Health,
Brain Health and Substance Use based on more than
three decades of advances in research and practice since
the publication of the ICD-10.
This 2-day live online course will provide an overview
of the key principles of the WHO’s ICD-11 and in-depth
knowledge about the ICD-11 CDDR. The course will
cover the areas of highest disease burden and service
utilization in adult mental health, as well as those with
the greatest innovations and changes in the ICD-11.
The course is highly relevant to the assessment of
psychopathology and the diagnosis of mental and
behavioural disorders in clinical practice.
This course is designed for psychiatrists and other
mental health professionals who are responsible
Course Directors:
Prof. Geoffrey M. Reed
Prof. Pratap Sharan
for assigning diagnoses or who may not diagnose
themselves but need to understand the clinical
manifestations of mental disorders in detail. It is also
open to psychiatry residents and other mental health
trainees or students (e.g., clinical psychology,
psychiatric nursing).
The training faculty for the course are renowned
international and Indian experts who have been
deeply involved for more than a decade in leading the
development, testing, and implementation of ICD-11
Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
This course will emphasize active participation through
application of the CDDR to clinical cases and participant
panel discussions of diagnostic dilemmas, led by faculty.
Our faculty initiated this training methodology for ICD-
11 field studies conducted by International Field Study
Centres around the world.
The course will be customized to the Indian context,
and will also be of interest to mental health
professionals from other countries in the region.
Regardless of the diagnostic system currently in use
in their countries for health reporting and statistics,
psychiatrists and other health professionals will benefit
from learning and applying these ground-breaking new
diagnostic guidelines in their research and practice.
Course Programme: Dates, Topics, and Faculty
Schedules are in New Delhi, India time (GMT +5:30)

Session 1 Session 2
Saturday, 13 July 2024 Sunday, 14 July 2024
14:00 – 22:00 IST (GMT +5:30) 14:00 – 22:30 IST (GMT +5:30)

Welcome Bodily Distress Disorder and

Professor Pratap Sharan (India) Dissociative Disorders
Professor Oye Gureje (Nigeria)

Innovations and Changes in

ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and Personality Disorder
Neurodevelopmental Disorders Professor Pratap Sharan (India)
Professor Geoffrey M. Reed (USA/Mexico)

Disorders Due to Substance Use

Schizophrenia and Other Primary Professor Atul Ambekar (India)
Psychotic Disorders
Professor Wolfgang Gaebel (Germany)
Disorders Due to Addictive
Behaviours and Compulsive
Mood Disorders Sexual Behaviour Disorder
Professor Subho Chakrabarti (India) Professor Jesús Castro Calvo (Spain)

Anxiety Disorders Disorders Specifically Associated

Professor Cary S. Kogan (Canada) with Stress
Professor Marylène Cloitre (USA)

Obsessive-Compulsive and
Related Disorders
Professor Y.C. Janardhan Reddy (India)
How To Apply For Participation
This offering of the Course is open to fully qualified
psychiatrists, psychiatry residents and other health
professionals who provide services to individuals with
mental, behavioural, or neurodevelopmental disorders.
Please note that this is a live course and you will be
expected to attend the sessions to receive credit.
To apply for participation in the Course, please
complete the application form, available at:
https://tinyurl.com/35b8fsf4
A P P L I C AT I O N
Applications must be received no later than 14 June 2024.
Notification of the acceptance of each application will be
emailed by 21 June 2024. If you do not receive a response
by this date, please check your spam folder.
After acceptance into the Course, you will be asked to pay
the registration fee (instructions to be provided) within
5 business days of receiving the acceptance email in order
to reserve your space.
The registration fee for the Course (including participation
in all sessions) is ₹ 5,000 Indian rupees (approximately
$60 US dollars) for qualified professionals, and ₹ 3,500
Indian rupees (approximately $40 US dollars) for students
and residents.
The Course is expected to be fully subscribed, so early
application is advised.
For additional information, please contact Ms Megha,
Project Associate at aiimsicd11@gmail.com.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Faculty
Geoffrey M. Reed is Professor of
Medical Psychology and Director,
Columbia – WHO Center for Global
Mental Health, Department of
Psychiatry, Columbia University,
Vagelos College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Beginning in 2008, he served
as Senior Project Officer for the
Development of the ICD-11 Mental Disorders, Department
of Mental Health and Substance Use, WHO, Geneva. He is
currently a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory
Committee for the ICD-11. He founded the WHO Global
Clinical Practice Network (http://gcp.network), which now
comprises over 18,000 mental health and primary care
professionals from 164 countries who contributed directly
to the development of the ICD-11 through participation in
field studies.
Pratap Sharan is the Head of the
Department of Psychiatry, All
India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) in New Delhi. Formerly he
was a Medical Officer at the World
Health Organization, Geneva. He has
served as the President of the Indian
Association for Child and Adolescent
Mental Health and the Indian
Association for Social Psychiatry. He serves on the Editorial
Boards of several national and international journals. He has
conducted research on mental health research in low- and
middle-income countries, classification of mental disorders,
and identification of depression and anxiety in primary
health care in collaboration with World Health Organization,
Geneva; Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva; World
Health Organization – South East Asia Regional Office, New
Delhi; and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi;
and has authored many papers, monographs, books and
chapters. Dr. Sharan was a member of the International
Advisory Group for Training and Implementation for ICD-11
Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Wolfgang Gaebel is Professor
of Psychiatry, former Director of
the Department of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-
Heine University, Düsseldorf,
Germany, and Director of the
LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf. He is
Director of the WHO Collaborating
Centre for Quality Assurance and
Empowerment in Mental Health. He has been President
of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
and Psychosomatics (1995-6 and 2007-8) and of the
European Psychiatric Association (2015-6). He is Chair of
the Sections on Schizophrenia and Quality Assurance of
the World Psychiatric Association. He was a member of the
WHO International Advisory Group for the ICD-11 Chapter
on Mental and Behavioural Disorders, and Chair of the ICD-
11 Working Group on Psychotic Disorders.
Subho Chakrabarti is Professor
of Psychiatry at the Department
of Psychiatry, Postgraduate
Institute of Medical Education and
Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh,
India. His research is in the area of
adult psychiatry including mood
disorders (bipolar disorder), family-
caregiving, liaison psychiatry, ECT,
digital psychiatry, treatment-adherence, and psychosocial
treatments. He has published papers, edited books, and
been a part of national and international projects in these
areas. He was a member of the ICD-11 Working Group
on the Classification of Mood and Anxiety or Related
Disorders and a contributor to the ICD-11 Online Training
Unit on Mood Disorders.
 Cary S. Kogan is Professor of
Clinical Psychology at the University
of Ottawa, Canada, and Mental
Health Lead at the University of
Ottawa Interdisciplinary Centre for
Black Health. He was a member of
the Field Study Coordinating Group
for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
and has contributed to the development, testing, and
international implementation of the ICD-11 Clinical
Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for mental
health professionals. He conducts research on the
classification of mental disorders.
Y.C. Janardhan Reddy is a Senior
Professor of Psychiatry, Associate
Dean of Behavioral Sciences and
Head of the Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD) Clinic at the
National Institute of Mental Health
and Neurosciences (NIMHANS),
Bangalore, India. Dr. Reddy has
special interest in studying the long-
term course and outcome of OCD and bipolar disorders and
in the management of treatment resistant OCD patients.
He is involved in studies of phenomenology, comorbidity,
family-genetics, treatment resistance, neuropsychology,
and neuroimaging in OCD. Dr. Reddy’s research has been
funded by various national and international agencies. He
was a member of the WHO Working Group on Obsessive-
Compulsive and Related Disorders for ICD-11 classification
of Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Dr. Reddy is the lead author of the Indian Psychiatric
Society (IPS) Clinical Practice Guidelines on OCD and on
CBT in anxiety disorders and OCD and related disorders.
Oye Gureje is Professor of
Psychiatry and Director of the
WHO Collaborating Centre for
Research and Training in Mental
Health, Neurosciences and Drug
and Alcohol Abuse, University of
Ibadan, Nigeria. He has been a Board
Member of the World Psychiatric
Association and involved in the
development of some of the Association’s educational
programmes. He is currently a member of the Association’s
Action Working Group on Comorbidity. He was a member
of the International Advisory Group and Field Studies
Coordinating Group for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and
Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Chair of the ICD-
11 Working Groups on Somatic Disorders and Cultural
Guidance.
Atul Ambekar is a professor at
the National Drug Dependence
Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All
India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS), New Delhi. He has been
a member of many international
and national expert bodies in the
field of drug addiction including
the Expert Advisory Panel on
Drug Dependence (WHO, Geneva), Strategic Advisory
Group on IDU and HIV (United Nations), and the National
Consultative Committee on Drug Demand Reduction and
Rehabilitation (Government of India). He has been providing
expertise and consultancy to UNODC, WHO, UNAIDS
and INCB. He also coordinated the field trials of "ICD-11
Disorders due to Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours"
and "International Standards for Treatment of Drug Use
Disorders" for WHO in India. He has published several
research papers, practice guidelines and training manuals
in the field of addiction psychiatry. He is the member, board
of directors, International Society of Addiction Medicine
(ISAM), the founding Secretary General of the Addiction
Psychiatry Society of India (APSI) and the Ex Chairperson
of Addictive Disorder Specialty, Indian Psychiatric Society.
 Jesús Castro Calvo has a PhD
in Psychology and is Professor
of Psychological Evaluation at
the University of Valencia, Spain.
His research focuses on the
intersection between sexual
behavior and addictive behaviors,
and more specifically, on the study
of the etiopathogenesis, evaluation
and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder.
Moreover, Jesús has participated in research projects and
studies exploring more general aspects of sexuality (e.g.,
HIV prevention, sexuality in the elderly, etc.) and other
addictive behaviors (e.g., gaming disorder, “binge watching,”
etc.). In terms of clinical experience, Jesús has practiced
since 2014 as a therapist in the evaluation and treatment of
patients with various sexual disorders, primarily compulsive
sexual behavior disorder.

Marylène Cloitre is on staff at

the National Center for PTSD,
Dissemination and Training Division,
VA Palo Alto Health Care System,
Palo Alto, CA, USA. She is also
Clinical Professor (Affiliate) of the
Stanford University Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
She was the Founding Director of
the Institute for Trauma and Recovery at the New York
University Child Study Center following 9/11 and a member
of the Advisory Board for the 9/11 Memorial Museum. She
is Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies. She was a member of the ICD-11 Working
Group on Disorders Specifically Associated with Stress.