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Biography of J.‐O. Ottosson

Jan-Otto Ottosson is professor emeritus of psychiatry. He received his MD in 1951 and PhD in 1960 at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He has been professor of psychiatry and chairman at the university departments of psychiatry in Umeå and Göteborg from 1963–1991. He served as editor-in-chief of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica from 1983–1997 and was a member of the editorial board of the quarterly scientific journal Convulsive Therapy (now Journal of ECT). Jan-Otto Ottosson and several of his research students have carried out major research into electroconvulsive therapy, as well as suicidology, drug addiction and effects of psychotherapy. He has been a leader in the application of ethical principles to health care – chairman of the Delegation of Medical Ethics of the Swedish Society of Medicine, Swedish delegate to the European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics, and an expert of the Biomedical Ethics Council of the Swedish government. As Swedish delegate to the World Psychiatric Association, he contributed to the approval of the Hawaii Declaration, the first code of ethics in psychiatry. He has published a book on psychiatric ethics in Swedish and together with Professor Max Fink in New York Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy in 2004. His textbook of clinical psychiatry is widely used in Swedish medical schools and has appeared in seven editions since first published in 1983. He is also co-author of several other text books that are used in the education of different groups of healthcare personnel. His book on the Swedish history of psychiatry was published in 2003, and he has edited the Scientific Basis of Art of Medicine describing the patient–doctor relationship, published by the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care in 1999. He is an honorary member of the Swedish Psychiatric Association, the Swedish Society of Medicine and the Nordic Association for Convulsive Therapy. He has been awarded the Erik Strömgren medal of the Psychiatric Institute in Aarhus, Denmark.