Davor Mucić, MD, PhD
Psychiatrist · Digital Mental Health · Telepsychiatry · AI
Chair, WPA Digital Mental Health Section
Psychiatrist, researcher and educator with more than two decades of experience at the intersection of psychiatry and digital technology. Pioneer of transcultural telepsychiatry and founder of the first documented cross-border language- and culture-matched telepsychiatry service.
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FROM TELEPSYCHIATRY TO DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH
For more than two decades, my work has focused on how technology can improve access, quality and equity in mental healthcare.
Beginning with transcultural telepsychiatry and cross-border psychiatric care, my work today encompasses telepsychiatry, Digital Mental Health, artificial intelligence, mHealth, implementation, cultural safety, clinical guidelines and education.
Technology is not an end in itself. Its value lies in helping clinicians provide safer, more accessible and more person-centred care.
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FOUR AREAS OF WORK
DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH
Telepsychiatry, AI, mHealth, digital technologies, ethics, safety, implementation and equity.
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RESEARCH & GUIDELINES
Research, international collaboration, clinical guidance, books and academic publications.
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EDUCATION & TRAINING
Digital Psychiatry education for medical students, psychiatry residents and mental health professionals.
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CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatric assessment and treatment in Denmark, including ADHD and telepsychiatry.
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TRANSCULTURAL TELEPSYCHIATRY
One of the central themes of my work has been overcoming linguistic, cultural and geographical barriers to psychiatric care.
In 2004–2005, I developed and implemented a transcultural telepsychiatry model in Denmark based on direct language and cultural matching between psychiatrist and patient.
In 2006, the model was extended across national borders through a Denmark–Sweden service, enabling refugees and migrants in Denmark to receive psychiatric care from psychiatrists speaking their own languages without the routine use of interpreters.
This work became the foundation for my later research into cross-cultural and international applications of telepsychiatry.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MILESTONES
2004–2005
Development and implementation of transcultural telepsychiatry in Denmark
2006
Cross-border Denmark–Sweden transcultural telepsychiatry service
2011
Founded EPA Telemental Health Section
2016
Co-editor, e-Mental Health — Springer
2020
Initiated and coordinated the WPA e-Mental Health Expert Group; WPA Honorary Membership
2021
Lead author, WPA Telepsychiatry Global Guidelines
2022
PhD focused on telepsychiatry in the assessment and treatment of refugees and migrants
2023
WPA Presidential Commendation
2024
Comprehensive update of WPA Telepsychiatry Global Guidelines
2025
Co-editor, Digital Mental Health: The Future is Now — Springer Nature
2026
Chair, WPA Digital Mental Health Section
SELECTED BOOKS & GUIDELINES
e-Mental Health
Springer, 2016
WPA Telepsychiatry Global Guidelines
2021 · Comprehensive update 2024
Digital Mental Health: The Future is Now
Springer Nature, 2025
PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION FOR DIGITAL PSYCHIATRY
Digital technologies are becoming part of routine psychiatric practice, while formal education has often struggled to keep pace.
I am developing educational concepts and curricula for medical students, psychiatry residents and mental health professionals, with a focus on telepsychiatry, AI, mHealth, ethics, patient safety and implementation.
I welcome collaboration with universities, medical schools and professional organisations.
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LOOKING FOR PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN DENMARK?
I remain clinically active through Behandlingscentret Den Lille Prins in Copenhagen, providing psychiatric assessment and treatment through face-to-face consultations and telepsychiatry.
Selected services include ADHD assessment for adults with suspected ADHD, treatment and follow-up for adults with an established ADHD diagnosis, telepsychiatry and specialist psychiatric reports.
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Davor Mucić
is a pioneer of telepsychiatry in Europe, with over 20 years of clinical experience
Besides being the father of the “Transcultural Telepsychiatry”, he is also the founder of the world’s first international telepsychiatric service
Biosketch
Pioneering telepsychiatry projects launched in Little Prince Treatment Center in Denmark, accompanied by numerous scientific articles, have formed Davor Mucić into an expert who has a broad and deep understanding and competence in terms of knowledge, skills and experience gained through practice and education in the field of telepsychiatry. He will be remembered as the creator of a completely new model in the assessment and treatment of migrants. “Transcultural Telepsychiatry” enables remote “ethnic matching” and eliminates the use of interpreters in clinical work with migrants who do not speak the language of the host country.
The world-renowned promoter of telepsychiatry, Davor Mucić, launched the world’s first, pioneering, international telepsychiatric service, connecting therapists in Sweden with patients in Denmark back in 2005.
The combination of clinical and scientific work aimed at improving mental health care for ethnic minorities, ie. asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, resulted in a series of groundbreaking telepsychiatry-related articles alongside the publication of the edited scientific bestseller ”e-Mental Health” (new edition published in 2024 “Digital Mental Health: The Future is Now”. Davor Mucić is awarded the WPA 2020. Honorary Member Award and is the first Ph.D. in telepsychiatry in Europe.
Digital Mental Health: The Future is Now
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Training and Education
DM provides education and training to staff on the basics of telepsychiatry, equipment selection, and distance counseling
