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Prof. Petr Morozov
Senior Advisor, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), DrSci (Med), Russia
To the Memory of our dear Teacher

  • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Advanced Medical Studies, Russian National Medical Research University n.a. Pirogov, Moscow, Russia
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Vice-President
  • World Psychiatric Association, General Secretary 2019-2022
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Our Team

Daria Smirnova
Director, MD (Hons), PhD (Psychiatry), Russia
  • Director, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Principal Investigator of the Innovative Neuropsychiatry Research Bank (IN-PsyReSearch) Project, Samara, Russia
  • World Psychiatric Association, Evidence-based Psychiatry Section & Women’s Mental Health Section Member
  • European Depression Association, National Representative of Russia
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Section on International Collaboration Member
  • International Association of Women’s Mental Health Member
  • Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry Member
  • Argentinian Association of Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychiatry Section Member

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Anna Yashikhina
Deputy Director, Clinical psychologist, Russia
  • Deputy Director, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on Education and topics of Clinical Psychology, Samara, Russia
  • Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Psychotherapy, Senior Educator
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists Member
  • Samara branch of the Early Career Psychiatrists Council Chairman, Russian Society of Psychiatrists

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Assoc. Prof. Timur Syunyakov
Chief Expert, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Russia
  • Chief Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on Statistical Data Analysis, Samara, Russia
  • Chief Coordinator on Statistical Data Analysis and Pharmacotherapy Mental Health Clinic No. 1 n.a. N.A. Alexeev of Moscow Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russia

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Prof. Florence Thibaut
Senior Researcher, MD, PhD, France
  • Senior Researcher, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Paris Descartes University, University Hospital Cochin Paris, Paris, France
  • INSERM U1266 Member, Institute for Psychiatry and Neurosciences
  • World Psychiatric Association, Head of the Women’s Mental Health Section
  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, Honorary President
  • International Association for Women’s Mental Health, President

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Prof. Paul Cumming
Senior Researcher, BSc, MSc, PhD, Switzerland
  • Senior Researcher, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • School of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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Assoc. Prof. Xenia Gonda
Xenia Gonda, Senior Researcher, MA, PharmD, PhD, Hungary
  • Senior Researcher, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
  • New Antidepressant Target Group & Neurochemistry and Neuropsychopharmacology Research group of Semmelweis University and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Laboratory of Suicide Prevention and Research, National Institute for Psychiatry and Addictology
  • World Psychiatric Association, Evidence-based Psychiatry Section & Women’s Mental Health Section Member

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Prof. Avinash DeSousa
Senior Researcher, MD, DPM, MS, MBA, MPhil, PsyD, India
  • Senior Researcher, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Department of Psychiatry, LokmanyaTilak Minicipal Medical College, Mumbai, India
  • Founder, DeSousa Foundation
  • International Faculty for UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • International Institute of Organizational Psychological Medicine

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Regina Nasyrova
Chief Expert, MD, DrSci (Med), St Petersburg, Russia
  • Chief Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on the topics of Genetics and Pharmacogenetics, Samara, Russia
  • The Institute of Personalized Psychiatry and Neurology, St Petersburg V. M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, Scientific Director
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Board Member, Executive Committee Member, Chair of the Section on personalized psychiatry

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Mikhail Sheifer
Chief Expert, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Russia
  • Chief Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Samara Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Chief Medical Officer
  • Ministry of Health of Samara Region, Chief Expert of Psychiatry
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Board Member

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Andrei Vlasov
Leading Expert, BSc Bachelor of Technical Sciences, IT-specialist, Research Project Data-manager, AI/ML Developer, Russia
  • Leading Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Natalia Zakharova
Leading Expert, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Russia
  • Leading Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Research, Samara, Russia
  • The Institute of Personalized Psychiatry and Neurology, St Petersburg V. M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, Leading Researcher

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Anna Spikina
Leading Expert, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Russia
  • Leading Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on Collaboration with Belarus scientific foundations, Samara, Russia
  • Deputy Chief Medical Officer, St. Petersburg Psychoneurology Dispansery N2, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Arseny Gayduk
Head of the Youth Laboratory on Innovations in Neuropsychiatry, MD, Neurologist, Russia
  • Head of the Youth Laboratory on Innovations in Neuropsychiatry, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • The Research Institute of Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of the Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia

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Olga Izmailova
Head of the Clinical Trials’ Lab, MD, Psychiatrist, Russia
  • Head of the Clinical Trials’ Lab, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Samara Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, Head of the Inpatient Department
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Samara Region Branch Member

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Assoc. Prof. Alexey Pavlichenko
Chief Expert, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Russia
  • Chief Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on Lecturing skills in psychiatry and the topics of classifications and diagnostic criteria of mental and behavioural disorders, Samara, Russia
  • Assoc. Prof. of the Department of Mental Health, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  • European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), Russian Delegate of the Psychiatry Section
  • European Depression Association Member
  • European Psychiatric Association Member
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Moscow Branch Member

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Anna Strelnik
Expert, MD, Psychiatrist, Russia
  • Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on the topic of Neuroinflammatory hypothesis of schizophrenia, Samara, Russia
  • Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Psychotherapy, Assistant Professor
  • Russian Society of Psychiatrists Member

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Darya Astafeva
Expert, MD, Russia
  • Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on the topic of VR/AR technologies in neuropsychiatry, Samara, Russia

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Oxana Chigareva
Expert, MD, Neurologist, Russia
  • Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Chief Coordinator on Collaboration with the Centre of Professional pathology, Samara, Russia

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Ramil Shiryazdanov
Expert, MD, Psychiatrist, Russia
  • Expert, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
  • Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Psychotherapy, Assistant Professor

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Kseniya Bikbaeva
Research Laboratory Assistant, PhD student, MD, Russia
  • Research Laboratory Assistant, PhD student, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Viktoria Keleynova
Research Laboratory Assistant, Clinical psychologist, Russia
  • Research Laboratory Assistant, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Anna Gradinar
Research Laboratory Assistant, MD, Russia
  • Research Laboratory Assistant, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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Karina Berezhnaya
Research Laboratory Assistant, Russia
  • Research Laboratory Assistant, International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

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International Advisory Board

Prof. Giuseppe Tavormina
Psychiatric Studies Centre, President, Provaglio d’Iseo, Lombardia, Italy
  • ICERN Mentor on the topic of depressive disorders and mixed affective states
  • European Depression Association and Italian Association on Depression, General Secretary, Brussels, Belgium
  • Bedfordshire Center for Mental Health Research in association with the University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow, Bedfordshire, UK
Prof. Subodh Dave
Royal College of Psychiatrists, Dean, London, UK
  • ICERN Mentor on the topic of undegraduate medical edication in psychiatry
  • Derbyshire Health care Foundation Trust, Undergraduate Medical Education, Deputy Director, Derby, UK
  • Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry, Chair, Derby, UK
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists, Trainer of the Year 2017, London, UK
Prof. Kostas N. Fountoulakis
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Chief of Department, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Thessaloniki, Greece
  • ICERN Mentor on the topics of social psychiatry and epidemiology
  • World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for Greece, Director
  • World Psychiatric Association, Zone 8 Southern Europe Representative and Head of the Evidence-based psychiatry Section
  • ISNP President, Head of Cochrane Greece
Prof. Elias Mossialos
The Department of Health Policy, Deputy Head, & LSE Health Director, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
  • ICERN Mentor on the MSc programs development and the topics of Public Health
  • Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Visiting Professor, Chicago, USA
  • Imperial College Business School, Affiliate Professor, London, UK
  • University of Copenhagen, Honorary Professor, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Honorary Professor, London, UK
  • L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique, Honorary Professor, Paris, France
Prof. Assen Jablensky
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry (CCRN), University of Western Australia, Director (1995-2020), Winthrop Professor of Psychiatry, Perth, WA, Western Australia, Australia
  • ICERN Mentor on the topics of schizophrenia research and cognitive endophenotypes hypotheses of schizophrenia
Prof. Domenico De Berardis
Mental Health Centre, Director, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Giulianova, Province of Teramo, Italy
  • ICERN Mentor on the peer-review journals collaboration and topics of scientific publishing
  • University L’Aquila, Teramo, Italy
  • Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University of Studies G. d’Annunzio Chieti and Pescara, Chieti
Federico Rebok
Argentine Institute of Clinical Psychiatry (IAPC), Expert, MD, PhD (Psychiatry), Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • ICERN Mentor on the Latin American Research and topics of clinical psychopathology
  • Emergency Service, Acute Inpatient Unit, Hospital Moyano, Unit Chief, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Argentinian Association of Psychiatrists, Head of the Clinical Psychiatry Section
Darya Rostam Ahmed
Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Health and Science, Koya University, Expert of the Directory of Health and Safety, B.Sc. in Clinical Psychology, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq
  • ICERN Mentor on the issues of early carrer professionals recruitment into neuropsychiatry research and collaboration with the Global Psychiatric Association
  • UN Agencies Consultant on Mental Health
  • Global Psychiatric Association, Co-Founder
  • Iraq Junior Ambassador for USERN

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Dmitrii Shapievskii
PhD (Physics and Mathematics), Berlin, Germany
  • ICERN Mentor on the VR/AR-treatment approach to Autism spectrum disorder and Advanced Technologies use in Sport medicine
  • ROYGBIV Project Principle Investigator, Founder and CTO
  • Yellow Initiative on VR/AR-treatment approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders Team, Technical leader
  • LLC “Better Reality” Founder, Executive Director and CTO

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