Eduard Vieta is a professor of Psychiatry and Chair at the University of Barcelona and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Hospital Clinic, where he also leads the Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Program in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His unit is one of the worldwide leaders in clinical care, teaching, and research on affective disorders. Dr. Vieta is also the current Scientific Director of the Spanish Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM). He received the Aristotle Award (2005), the Mogens Schou Award (2007), the Strategic Research Award of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry (2009), and the Official College of Physicians Award for Professional Excellence.