Cyril Höschl

Cyril Höschl (; 12 November 1949 – 21 April 2025) was a Czech psychiatrist and university lecturer. After the Velvet Revolution, he was the first freely elected Dean of the third Medical Faculty of Charles University (1990–1997) and from 1997 to 2003 he served as Vice-Dean for Reform Studies and International Relations at the same faculty. He was the director of the Prague Psychiatric Center (from 1990 to 2014) and head of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology of the Third Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague. On 1 January 2015 the Prague Psychiatric Center was transformed into the National Institute of Mental Health in Klecany, Czech Republic.

From 2007 to 2008 he served as President of the European Psychiatric Association, and then from 2008 to 2009, President of the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM). He was a founding member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and from 2004 to 2011 he was also president of the Czech Medical Academy. He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and was a member of the European Brain Council (until Jan 2015). From 1996 he was a Member, and from 2003 Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom. Provided by Wikipedia