He is a Director of the Institute for Religiosity in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University (USA)He received his Medical doctorate University of Vienna Medical School, Austria with a Thesis in Psychiatry about the compliance in patients with bipolar disorder. In 2005 Post-doctoral studies at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), USA with Prof. J. Cummings. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. He is an active scientific peer reviewer for many Journals. His scientific interest is Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic medicine & dementia, especially Huntington’s disease. Biography