Professor Tarek Okasha is the Editor-in-Chief for the Middle East Current Psychiatry journal as well as a Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in Cairo. Along with his editor duties, Prof. Okasha has published over 70 articles and 35 capters in leading national and international journals and books and has supervised more than 80 student theses as well as contributing.
Prof. Okasha is also titled as the Director of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Psychiatry at Ain Shams University; the Founder of the Psychiatry unit at Misr University for Science and Technology; President of the Egyptian Alzheimer Society; Vice President of the Egyptian Society of Biological Psychiatry and chairperson of the scientific committee for promotion of Professors and Ass. Professors in Psychiatry at the Supreme Council of Universities in Egypt.