Dr. Ahmed Sayed Aboraya, MD, DrPH, currently holds the position of Chief of Psychiatry at William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital. He also serves as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia (WV), and as adjunct faculty in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, WV. Dr. Aboraya obtained his medical degree (MD) from Cairo University and pursued further education with a Master of Public Health (MPH) and a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from Johns Hopkins University. After completing his doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins in 1991, he finished his psychiatry residency at WVU in 1995. Since then, he has remained on faculty with WVU while practicing as an attending psychiatrist at Sharpe Hospital.Dr. Aboraya specializes in treating chronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia spectrum disorders and mood disorders, accumulating over 30 years of experience in West Virginia. His primary research focus centers on the clinical assessment of psychopathology. Notably, he developed the Standard for Clinicians’ Interview in Psychiatry (SCIP) as an assessment tool for adult psychiatric disorders. The SCIP, administered by clinicians and researchers, underwent testing between 2000 and 2020 in an international multisite study spanning three countries: the USA, Canada, and Egypt, with a total sample size of 1,064 subjects. The SCIP has proven to be a reliable and valid assessment tool, with results from the SCIP project published and presented at numerous national and international conferences.