Frans Verhey, MD, PhD
(Netherlands), Board of Directors

Dr. Frans Verhey studied medicine in Amsterdam and received his medical degree in 1981. He took postgraduate training in neurology, psychiatry and neuropsychology, and completed his medical specialization as a neuropsychiatrist in 1987.  In 1993, he completed his thesis entitled: “Dementia, Depression and Forgetfulness. Clinical studies into the differential and early diagnosis of dementia.”

In 2001, he was appointed professor of old Age Psychiatry and Neuroropsychiatry. Dr. Verhey is an active researcher in the field of Old Age Psychiatry. The topics of his current research projects include: predictors of conversion of mild cognitively impaired elderly into Alzheimer’s Disease; the course and risk factors of behavioural disturbances in dementia; predictors of vascular dementia; biological markers of depression in Parkinson’s Disease, the course of depression after stroke, and the efficacy of a psychogeriatric day hospital. 

Dr. Verhey actively participates in several international networks: the European AD Consortium, INTERDEM (about early interventions in dementia), the North Sea Joint Meeting of Alzheimer Centres, and AWARE.  He is the project leader of EURO-HARPID (European harmonization project of commonly used instruments for dementia) and of DESCRIPA (Development of Screening Guidelines in Prodromal AD). 

Dr. Verhey has been active in the field of Geriatric Psychiatry for more than 15 years. He is the founder and coordinator of the Maastricht Memory Clinic, the first one in the Netherlands. He is the present Chair of the Section of Old Age Psychiatry of the Dutch Society for Psychiatry. Presently, he is actively involved in the development of a regional comprehensive programme for mental health in the elderly. 

Besides his membership in IPA, Dr. Verhey is a member of other professional societies: the Dutch Association of Psychiatry, the Dutch Association of Neuropsychology,  American Neuropsychiatric Association, and the  International College of Geriatric Psychopharmacology.

Dr. Verhey has been a member of IPA since 1994 and elected to the Board of Directors in 2003.  He can be contacted at f.Verhey@np.unimaas.nl.

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