Mental disorders and work with psychotrauma during war. Webinar 6

Recognized international experts from Israel, the USA, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Ukraine, in the course of an educational program, share their knowledge and experience in solving the problem of the impact that psychotrauma has on mental health during war.

With the support of the pharmaceutical company “Darnytsia” and in partnership with the NGO “All-Ukrainian Association of Psychosomatic Medicine”.

Eric Vermetten (USA) with the lecture "The Trajectory of PTSD After War"

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Clinical Psychiatrist, who works with veterans and other officers as a strategic advisor in the Military Mental Health Service at the Dutch Ministry of Defense and the ARQ National Psychotrauma Center. He is the Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Leiden University Medical Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the New York University Medical Center. He received his education in the Netherlands, as well as in the USA in the field of psychiatry and neurology (Stanford, Yale, and Emory Universities). He is involved in both clinical and research activities with an emphasis on the biomedical and psychiatric aspects of complex psychotrauma in military and civilian individuals. His research concerns stress, trauma, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and neurology. He is interested in the history of war and pays special attention to combining biological interventions in psychotraumatology with new technologies and the development of new drugs, including MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, and medical cannabis.
 

Olena Oleksandrivna Khaustova (Ukraine) with the lecture "Mental Disorders and Somatization: What to Pay Attention To?"

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Medical Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy at the Bogomolets National Medical University, psychiatrist of the highest category, Vice-President of the Ukrainian Association of Psychosomatic Medicine, member of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine.

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