Science and Research ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher - Palliative Care *========================================================================================= Elene Janberidze graduated from Nursing College and then from the Medical Faculty of Medic “Clinicus” attached to Institute of Experimental Morphology in Tbilisi (Georgia). She unde of-life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) International Curriculum – Train program, whi to work as a coordinator of Nursing Palliative Care Educational Programs at Palliative Car Tbilisi. She completed a postgraduate study in Clinical Oncology at the Tbilisi State Medi She specialises in clinical oncology and chemotherapy. From 2009-2011 she has been working at Alexandre Natishvili Institute of Morphology as a j In 2011 she became the Marie Curie research training fellow in European Union Seventh Fram funded project European Intersectorial and Multi-disciplinary Palliative Care Research Tra IMPACT) based in Norway. Within this project, besides working in Norway, she spent 6 month Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). defended her PhD in Palliative Care at European Palliative Care Research Center at the Fac of Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (Norway). The title of her “Depression and depressive symptoms in patients with advanced cancer: assessment, classifi treatment”. After returning beck to Georgia, she became a chief researcher at the Department of Geront Palliative Medicine of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. At the same time she te medicine at Faculty of Medicine of University of Georgia. From September 2018 she works as research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology in Third Faculty of Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). Elene Janberidze focuses her research interest on identification of social, medical, ethic elaboration of recommendations for national program on geriatric palliative care in Georgi doc researcher at Charles University her project addresses the impact of a palliative care palliative care patients in inpatient hospital setting. She published many interesting articles in international peer-reviewed journals, participa research and clinically oriented trainings and was part of multiple projects as a principa ****************************************************************************************** * Project PRIMUS ****************************************************************************************** A research project entitled „Prevention of mental disorders: effects of early life risk fa by a grant PRIMUS was initiated in January 2019. The principal investigator is Pavla Čermá The team currently consists of a postdoctoral researcher (Klára Marečková, Ph.D., M.Sc.), researchers (Anna Kagstrom, MSc. and Zsófia Csajbók, M.A.) and a medical student (Matěj Ku currently looking for a PhD student to join our team. We argue that the burden of mental disorders could be reduced by improving early life cond perinatal health, emotional environment in childhood and socioeconomic conditions. In this project we aim to (1) study association of indicators of fetal development, negati environment and socioeconomic adversity during early life with the occurrence of mental di during the lifecourse; (2) explore shared biological mechanisms and neurobiological substr disorders; (3) determine, to which extent and how can be the effects of early life risk fa changes in life style. We conduct analyses of data from large prospective longitudinal studies with repeatedly co information and a long follow-up period. Three sources of data will be used: The National Newborns of the Czech Republic merged with other health registers, ELSPAC (European Longit of Pregnancy and Childhood) and SHARE (The Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europ multivariable regression models, mixed models and structural equation modelling. We believe that the new knowledge this project will generate can increase understanding of leading to mental disorders and suggest ways for their prevention. *========================================================================================= * Pavla Čermáková, M.D., Ph.D. *========================================================================================= Pavla Čermáková, M.D., Ph.D. studied General Medicine at the Third Faculty of Medicine at University in Prague in 2013 and gained her PhD in Medical Science at Karolinska Institute Sweden, where she defended her thesis concerning the relationship between cardiovascular d dementia in 2017. She was a visiting PhD student at the National Institute of Health in Be where she was working for 5 months in a neuroepidemiology group at the National Insitute o Since 2017, she is working as a senior-researcher at the National Institute of Mental Heal Czech Republic, and as an assistant professor at Charles University Prague, where she teac „Methodology“ and „Can we prevent dementia?“. She is also a visiting researcher at the Uni London in the United Kingdom. She has experience in analysis of data from registers and po studies and her research interests concern life-course approach towards brain health. • Contact: Pavla.Cermakova(zavinac)nudz.cz [ MAIL "Pavla.Cermakova(zavinac)nudz.cz"] • Google Scholar profile [ URL "https://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=Qe1Ew_8AAAAJ& *========================================================================================= * Klára Marečková, Ph.D., M.Sc. *========================================================================================= Klára Marečková, Ph.D., M.Sc. works at the Central European Institute of Technology, Masar (CEITEC MU) and collaborates with the Division of Medical Psychology at Third Faculty of M University on the PRIMUS grant. She received her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at the University of Notti 2008 and defended her PhD thesis on Sex differences and the role of sex hormones in face d face processing in 2013. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Behavioral and Social Neuroscienc at CEITEC MU, she developed a collaboration with prof. Goldstein’s team at Harvard Medical studied neural-hormonal coupling during negative affect in patients with depression, bipol and schizophrenia. Her Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, entitled Biomarkers and Underlyi of Vulnerability Depression (VULDE), enriched the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy (ELSPAC) with neuroimaging, hormonal and behavioral data and demonstrated the impact of pr brain structure and mood dysregulation in young adulthood. Within her research in populati and the origins of psychiatric diseases she is also working on other international project for Addiction and Mental Health and Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. See more at • https://www.ceitec.cz/klara-mareckova-ph-d-m-sc/u47650 [ URL "https://www.ceitec.cz/klar d-m-sc/u47650"] • Google Scholar profile [ URL "https://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=Cb51mNYAAAAJ&hl=e *========================================================================================= * Anna Kagstrom, MSc. *========================================================================================= Anna Kagstrom, MSc. received her BSc in Psychology from California State University, Sacra in Ethics, Theology and Philosophy from Kings College London, and her MSc in Global Mental joint programme at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, and the London Sch and Medicine. She has worked extensively with vulnerable children and youth, particularly malnourished, neglected, and special needs infants and children in both institutional and programs and has conducted mixed-methods research examining cultural aspects of deinstitut of crisis services for children with disabilities in Haiti. She is currently a researcher Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic focusing on child and adolescent mental health of social psychiatry. Her main research interests include prevention of mental health prob and adolescents, and scaling the implementation of community-based prevention and promotio children for vulnerable populations.' *========================================================================================= * Zsófia Csajbók, M.A., is a Ph.D. *========================================================================================= Zsófia Csajbók, M.A., is a Ph.D. student of Theoretical and Evolutionary Biology programme of Science, Charles University. She obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees in Clinical a Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She participated on a six-month long stu in Stirling, Scotland under the supervision of Prof. S. Craig Roberts, Ph.D., and on a res Oxford and London, England to conduct an international comparison of student counselling s certified counsellor in person-centred counselling and has certified experience in family therapy. She is the supervisor of the psychology service at Sziget Festival, Budapest. Her professional interests include the determination of mental health protective and risk investigation of the effect of mental health on mate choice, and extracting the ideals and in mate preferences. Zsófia Csajbók has extensive experience in dealing with complex or mu data and structural equation modelling, and she is a dedicated teacher of statistics. She statistical analyst on several research projects at the National Institute of Mental Healt Social Psychiatry Research Programme and in the Human Ethology Research Group. See more at: • https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zsofia_Csajbok2 [ URL "https://www.researchgate.net Zsofia_Csajbok2"] *========================================================================================= * MUC. Matěj Kučera *========================================================================================= MUC. Matěj Kučera currently studies general medicine at the Third Faculty of Medicine in P he is interning at the National Institute of Mental Health at the Department of Social Psy is engaged in a wide range of research and organisational activities and since March 2018 data specialist in the Destigmatisation project, which is one part of psychiatric care ref Republic. Within his research activities he focuses on topics such as prevalence of depres destigmatisation of people with mental illness, psychological and emotional wellbeing of g or historical research of psychedelic substances in Czechoslovakia.