Giovanni A. Fava is a world-renowned psychiatrist, whose academic career has taken place in Italy and United States. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo. For 30 years (1992-2022) he has been Editor-in-Chief of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, a journal that reached a top position during his tenure. He has performed groundbreaking research in psychiatry and clinical psychology, where he has introduced Well-Being Therapy, the sequential model, the concept of staging, a new method of psychosomatic classification, and the clinimetric approach. His latest book Discontinuing Antidepressant Medications was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.