Alberta Cimitan Editor

Professor De Leo has published extensively with over 700 publications, including 290 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters and 35 volumes. His Scopus HA-- index is today 33. He is Past President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the International Academy for Suicide Research. He serves as a board member of the Australian Suicide Prevention Advisory Council and is Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Queensland Government Suicide Prevention Strategy. Prof. De Leo has successfully established and managed many high-level international collaborations, which have resulted in the creation of seven collaborative studies including the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Suicidal behavior, the WHO/SUPRE-MISS (SUicide PREvention - Multisite Intervention Study on Suicide) and the WHO/START Study Project (Suicide Trends in At-Risk Territories). He is founder/co-founder of the Italian Society for PsychoOncology, the Italian Association for Suicide Prevention and the International Academy for Suicide Research. He is the ideator and main promoter of organizing the World Day for Suicide Prevention, taking place every September 10th since its establishment in 2003. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, and editorial board member of Suicide & Life A--Threatening Behavior, Archives of Suicide Research, SuicidologyA--onA--Line and Advancing Suicide Prevention. He is Associate Editor of BMC Public Health, and Regional Editor of Behavioral Medicine. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals including Journal of Affective Disorders, Aging Clinical and Experimental and the Open Geriatric Journal, plus several Italian medical journals. He is the winner of several national and international awards. He won the IASP Stengel Award when he was just 40-years old, and Life Research Award (Suicide Prevention - Commonwealth of Australia) in 2007. He is a Gold Medal, Italians in the World. In 2011, he was presented with the AAS Louis I. Dublin award: a lifetime achievement award for outstanding services/contributions to the field of suicide prevention as evidenced by leadership, devotion and creativity. In 2012, he won the Pro Vice Chancellor (Health) Research Excellence Award for Research Leadership. Alberta Cimitan is a clinical psychologist. Since 2009 she collaborates with the association De Leo Fund Onlus (based in Padua, Italy), which deals with supporting survivors of traumatic deaths (suicide, road accidents, work-related deaths, natural disasters, etc). From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the working group within the Veneto regional program of support to survivors of tragic and sudden deaths. Since 2011 she is the coordinator of all care services and De Leo Fund helpline. Kari Dyregrov, PhD is affiliated with the Center for Crisis Psychology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health Prof. Onja Grad, PhD is affiliated with the University Psychiatric Hospital in Ljubljana, Slowenia Karl Andriessen; MSc, is affiliated with the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium