People

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Eija Paavilainen, PhD, works as a Professor (Nursing Science) at Faculty of Social Sciences/Health Sciences in University of Tampere, from 2001. She has also a research position in Etelä-Pohjanmaa Hospital District, from 2002. Her main research and expertise areas concern families with children in challenging life situations. Her largest research projects concern family violence, child maltreatment, and family risks, and care services for families with children. Those research projects are or have been funded by Academy of Finland, Boards of Hospital Districts, Ministry for Social Affairs and Health, Finland, and European Union. She has over 200 conference presentations and over 200 scientific and other publications.

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Irja Nieminen is working as a teacher at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences in Finland. She is teaching mainly research methods and supervising theses. She has previously worked as a researcher in the EMILIA and CAMILLE projects funded by European Union. Her doctoral dissertation focused on mental health service users’ participation in training. She is continuing this topic also with her post doc research, which is aiming to open up new perspectives on the training as a part of mental health service users’ rehabilitation.

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Professor Marja Kaunonen is Professor in Nursing Science and Head of Health Sciences in Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. She has been the president of European Network of Training, Evaluation and Research (ENTER) since 2018. Her research portfolio includes research with families in challenging life situations, such as mental illness, cancer or death of a family member as well as birth of a new baby, and support in challenging life situations. Marja Kaunonen has been teaching bachelor, master’s and doctoral students at University and she has been actively involved internationally, in Europe, China and South America, in competence and learning outcome based curriculum development. She has around 200 peer reviewed publications.

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Katja Joronen works at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Health Sciences) at the Tampere University, Finland. Katja is a pediatric nurse by clinical background. Her expertise in research on health promotion of children, adolescents and their families spans around 20 years. Katja Joronen has experience in large population-based data settings with secondary data concerning child and adolescent health, health choices and health promotion. Further, her research projects have been focused on intervention studies and integrated services of children and young people.

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Dr Tim Greacen, former Chairperson of the ENTER Mental Health European Network, is Director of the Research Laboratory of the GHU-Paris Psychiatry and Neurosciences, where he has been managing the Paris contribution to EU projects such as Promoting Mental Health minimising mental illness and Integrating Social Inclusion through Education, (PROMISE, DG SANCO, n° 2008-216), Best Practise in Access, Quality and Appropriateness of Health Services for Immigrants in Europe (EUGATE, DG SANCO, n° 2006-129), Best Practise in Promoting Mental Health in Socially Marginalized People in Europe (PROMO, DG SANCO, n° 2006-328), Dual diagnosis patient pathways through care (ISADORA, EC FP5: QLG4-CT-2002-00911) and Empowerment of Mental Illness Service Users Through Lifelong Learning Integration and Action (EMILIA, CIT-3-2005-513435), and, at a national level, managing projects such as the Parental Skills and Attachment in Early Childhood Program (CAPEDP) or the Housing First Program Un Chez Soi d’Abord. Author and editor of seven books and numerous publications in the field of service user empowerment, mental health promotion and doctor-patient relationships, targeting both scientific and professional audiences as well as the general public, Dr Greacen is a recognised figure in France in the field of mental health promotion and prevention, user empowerment, and user participation in health services. In 2014, he was elected chairperson of the Working Group on Mental Health for the Greater Paris Area Regional Health Conference, position that he still holds in 2020.

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Dr Emmanuelle Jouet, PhD in Educational Science, is a researcher at the Human sciences and Mental Health Research Laboratory of the GHU-Paris, where she has been working on destigmatising mental health, mental health promotion, developing new training methods involving people living with mental health illnesses as both trainers and trainees, and evaluating continuous learning training programmes for mental health professionals. Her recent research work has taken place within a French national mental health programme, Housing First, and two EU supported projects: Promoting Mental Health minimising mental illness and Integrating Social Inclusion through Education, (PROMISE, DG SANCO, n° 2008-216) and Empowerment of Mental Illness Service Users Through Lifelong Learning Integration and Action (EMILIA, CIT-3-2005-513435). She is also currently developing the first French training programs for all stakeholders on promoting recovery for mental health service users in France, using innovative training approaches based on participative ongoing implementation evaluation techniques.

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Professor Baldacchino is Professor in Medicine, Psychiatry and Addictions at the St Andrews University, Scotland, UK. He was awarded membership with the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) in 1994, Fellowship with the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) in 2007 and Fellow with the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) (FRCPE) in 2017. Since 2001 he has, along his academic career, also worked with NHS Scotland as a Senior Consultant Psychiatrists and Clinical Director in Addiction Medicine and in 2015 NHS Fife Research and Development (R&D) Director. He is President Elect and Executive Board Member for the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM). His research portfolio have a common thread of understanding the comorbid conditions (physical and psychological) arising as a result of chronic abuse of pharmacological agents with dependence potential especially opioids, nicotine and alcohol. He has around 150 peer reviewed publications.

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Katherine Keenan has a PhD in Epidemiology and previous research  focussed on family and health outcomes linked to poor mental health and substance misuse, particularly in Russia. Her methodological expertise is in mixed methods, and besides the PhD she holds qualifications in psychiatric nursing, social anthropology and demography. Having trained at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the London School of Economics, UK, since 2017 she works as a Lecturer in Demography at the University of St Andrews.  

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Jane Appleton is Professor of Primary and Community Care at Oxford Brookes University.  Jane is a health visitor/public health nurse by clinical background. She has a long standing research and professional practice interest in child protection and health visitors’ work with vulnerable children and families.  At Oxford Brookes University, Jane leads the Children and Families Research Group, undertaking research studies on safeguarding children, children’s health issues and public health nursing.   Jane is Co-Editor of Child Abuse Review – The leading inter-professional journal for research, practice and policy in childhood harm and welfare in the UK. 

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Dr Sarah Bekaert is a Senior Lecturer in Child Health at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her current research focuses on teenaged pregnancy and parenthood, and issues pertaining to the teenage years such as intimate partner violence. She has published several textbooks relating to contraception and reproductive health and teenage health care. She has many years experience working with teenagers in Hackney – one of the poorest boroughs in London, UK; as a school nurse, with young offenders and with children in care. Sarah was co-founder of CHYPS Plus, a teenage health demonstration site in Hackney, commissioned by the Department of Health to provide creative and innovative health care for vulnerable young people.

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Giuseppe Carrà is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Milan Bicocca and a Research Associate at the Division of Psychiatry, University College of London

Giuseppe extensively researched in the addiction field in the last 25 years, with particular focus on comorbid severe mental illnesses and substance abuse.

Author of over 150 papers in scientific, peer-reviewed journals, Giuseppe co-edited the “Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives” , Springer-Nature 2015.

Clinically he works as the Medical Director of a large Mental Health and Addiction Department in Milan (I).

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Francesco Bartoli, MD, PhD, is a general adult psychiatrist at Bassini Hospital, ASST Nord Milano, and researcher at University of Milano Bicocca. Research interests involve biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric epidemiology. He is main author of several articles published in international scientific journals (current H-index: 19). He is Section Board Member of the “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health” and Guest Editor of “Brain Sciences”. He is board member of the Regional and Early Career Psychiatrists sections of the Italian Society of Psychiatry.

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Cristina Crocamo, PhD, is a biostatistician at University of Milano-Bicocca working also as advisor for medical data management and analysis. As a postdoctoral researcher, Cristina works in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, addiction, and public health, taking part in study design, data modelling and interpretation. Cristina has also expertise in systematic reviews and meta-analyses with extensive knowledge of statistical methods. Cristina has collaborated in both European and national projects. She has co-authored several publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals and she is referee for some international journals.

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Riccardo Matteo Cioni, MD, is a resident psychiatrist of the University of Milano Bicocca at Bassini Hospital, ASST Nord Milano. He graduated at the University of Bologna in 2019 with a final dissertation on dysregulated eating in a cohort of Borderline Personality Disorder affected patients.

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Professor Norbert Scherbaum is the Director of the Department of Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine as well as of the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the LVR-Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen.

His research focuses in the field of opiate dependence include evaluation of opiate detoxification treatments, novel interventions, the assessment and treatment of comorbid disorders and diseases, improvement of opioid maintenance treatment, and evaluation of drug consumption rooms. He participated in several EU-funded projects regarding New Psychoactive Substances, e.g. PSYCHONAUT, ReDNet, CAMILLE, EU-MADNESS and EU-JUSTSO. He also is a member of the Committee for Drugs and Narcotics (Ausschuss für Betäubungsmittel) at the Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit) and of the Committee for Addiction and Drugs (Ausschuss für Sucht und Drogen) at the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer).

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Michael Specka is a psychologist and researcher at the university of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Department of Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine.

He has been conducting and publishing research in the field of substance dependence for over 20 years now. His main focus is on prevention and treatment of harmful use of psychotropic substances, especially opioids.

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Lidia Zabłocka-Żytka, PhD, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, works as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology in the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw from 2009. She works also as a psychotherapist in The Dialog Therapy Centre from 2008. Her main research interest concerns two areas: mental health promotion and psychological help for adolescents and adults with mental health problems as well as somatic diseases. Member of the ENTER research projects, like CAMHEE, CAMILLE. She has presented her work on national and international conferences and published in national and international scientific journals.

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Sylwia Kluczyńska, PhD, psychologist, works as a lecturer in the Institute Psychology of The Maria Grzegorzewska University from 2006. She has been working in the anti-violence against women field for 20 years. Her main research areas concern mental health and domestic violence. She is a recognized expert in the field of domestic violence and a certified Domestic Violence Specialist. She specializes in the psychological treatment of victims, particularly victims of spousal abuse and sexual assault or abuse. She has extensive experience in training professionals who interact with victims of domestic violence including law enforcement, medical professionals, social workers, educators and court personnel. She has publications on the issues of domestic violence and psychological help.

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Malgorzata Wozniak-Prus, PhD, works as an Assistant Professor (Psychology) at Faculty of Psychology in the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw from 2012. She works also as a child psychologist in public Specialized Counselling and Therapy Centre for Children & Youth ‘TOP’ from 2003. Her main research interest concerns two areas: -problems of children with externalizing disorders and their families and -mentalizing abilities of children and adults. She also works on constructing methods of measuring executive functions and decision making processes in children. She has presented her work on national and international conferences and published in international scientific journals.

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Jan Czesław Czabała, professor at the Institute of Psychology, The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw from 2002. Main research and expertise areas: psychotherapy, counselling, mental health promotion. Member of the ENTER research projects, like EMILIA, OSCAR, CAMHEE, CAMILLE and other European Commission grants, e.g. DataPrev, IMHPA. Author and co-author over 150 publications and many conference presentations.