University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany.

Michael Bauer, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Medical Faculty and Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Technische Universität Dresden. He is project coordinator of the National consortium for the German Treatment Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder, leads the National Research Network on Bipolar Disorder “BipoLife”, and is chair of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Task Force “Role of Lithium in Bipolar Disorders”. From 2002-2022 he was President of the International Group for the Study of Lithium-Treated Patients (IGSLi). Together with Michael J. Gitlin he authored the textbook “The Essential Guide to Lithium Treatment” and is founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders since 2013.