Azernews.Az

World-known scientist Norman Sartorius, who heads the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, arrived in Baku on Monday to become acquainted with local mental health services and advise on their further development.

Along with his meetings with health officials, Prof. Sartorius will deliver two lectures on key topics of psychiatry. The first lecture, devoted to fighting stigma accompanying mental disorders, took place on Tuesday in the clinic of the Azerbaijan Medical University. The second one, related to co-morbidity of mental and physical illness, will be held on Wednesday in the National Mental Health Center at 2 p.m.

Born in 1935 in Munster, Germany, Prof. Sartorius grew up in Croatia where he graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. He also received a degree in psychology at the department of humanities and social sciences of the same university. As part of his professional education Sartorius spent some time at the University of London and then continued his work as a psychiatrist and researcher at the University Hospital Center in Zagreb.