Professor Lars Mehlum MD, PhD is the founding director of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Oslo, Norway. He received his MD degree at the University of Bergen and his PhD at the University of Oslo. He is a board specialist in psychiatry and he has been a professor of psychiatry and suicidology at the University of Oslo since 1999.
The past president of the IASP, IASR, ESSPD, and N-DBT and board member of many organizations he has been involved in international scientific and implementation work through several decades and consulting with governments on suicide preventive strategies in a high number of countries throughout the world. He founded the Norwegian DBT association and has helped found several other national and international organizations. His research focuses on clinical and epidemiological aspects of suicidal and self-harming behavior and the development and scientific evaluation of interventions. He has a strong interest in developing treatments for people with borderline personality disorder and he has conducted several randomized psychotherapy trials for young people, among them the first RCT on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy adapted for adolescents. He has authored more than 400 papers and book chapters and edited 10 textbooks. He is the founding editor of the journal Suicidology and he is a member of the editorial board of several other journals. He has received several national and international awards.
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