We are pleased to welcome our Distinguished Guests from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States
Education 2003 Ph.D., Social Work. Faculty of Welfare and Health Studies, Haifa University. Dissertation: Predictors of participation and voting intention for the equal rights of people with disabilities law, in the context of proposed welfare laws. Research Supervisor: Prof. Arie Rimmerman 1999 MSW (Cum Laude) School of Social Work, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Thesis: The impact […]
Donatella Marazziti, M.D. Dipartimento di Psichiatria, Neurobiologia, Farmacologia e Biotecnologie University of Pisa,via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy. Career summary When I enrolled in the Medical School of Medicine in Pisa (Italy) I had no idea just what type of doctor I wished to become; I was interested in the human being as a whole […]
Professor and Director of a Clinical Neuroscience oriented Section of the Lund Department of Clinical Sciences, Medical Faculty, Lund University. Consultant psychiatrist, Division of Psychiatry, University Hospitals, Lund. Basic education:Graduated from Medical School, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 1971.Specialist in Psychiatry, 1978. Clinical psychiatry duties:Resident in psychiatry, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, 1974-1979. Head of Solna psychiatry, Karolinska, 1984-1986.Head […]
Yuval Neria, Ph.D is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He received his PhD in Psychology from Haifa University, Israel (1994), and was on faculty of Tel Aviv University until his recruitment to Columbia University […]
Dr. Amra Zalihic was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has worked as a specialist in Family Medicine from 2000. Dr. Zalihic works in a Primary Care Center and as an Assistant in the Medical University of Mostar. She is involved in education of family medicine of physicians and nurses. Dr. Zalihic has investigated […]
Dr. Philipp Kuwert is a senior physician at the Department of Psychiatry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany. He is specialized in psychological trauma research, particularly in the effects of collective mass trauma such as war on the individual and societies. His main interests are the epidemiological effects of different aspects of war trauma, e.g. displacement, wartime rape […]
As a Nurse Scientist and a Gerontologist, my interest is cognitive aging and memory loss. A major focus of this research has been to understand the aging brain and how the subjective evaluation of memory may lead to cognitive decline. My research utilizes Self-Efficacy Theory to explain the cognitive difficulties experienced by older adults who […]
Mikkel Arendt is a researcher employed at the Unit for Psychiatric Research, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. He received his Master’s degree from the Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus in 2001 and later his PhD degree from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus in 2006. He was a visiting researcher […]
“Currently, I am a forth-year resident at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa and also hold the position of a co-chief resident. I received my Medical Degree from the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria in 2003 and pursued a career in psychiatry immediately after graduation. First, I worked for two years at Emergency Psychiatry […]
Eduardo Jesús Aguilar García-Iturrospe, M.D., Ph.D., was born in 1965 in Sagunto (Valencia, Spain). He graduated from high school in Clarkston, WA (USA), and from Medical School in Valencia (Spain). He completed his residency in Psychiatry at Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia (Spain) including an elective in Pittsburgh where he met two outstanding researchers […]
