Nino Okribelashvili

Date of Birth: 09 Sep 1961

Education:

George Washington University, Washington DC.  Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning

Junior Faculty Development Program  (Funded by the USA Department of State, coordinated by ACCELS/ACTR)

1999     -   Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) Tbilisi, Georgia

Doctor of Medical Sciences (ScD) 

1990      -   TSMU Tbilisi, Georgia

Candidate of Medical Sciences (PhD)  

1984-1986   -   TSMU Tbilisi, Georgia

   Postgraduate Education, Department of Psychiatry, Qualification of Psychiatrist

TSMU Tbilisi, Georgia

Undergraduate Medical Education 

Professional development:

“Assurance Qualite des Programmes de Master et de Doctoral” AUF. Tbilisi, Georgia.

Health System Management - organized by OPM, administered by GUSS, Tbilisi, Georgia

Management of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Developing Countries - Ministry of Commerce, Beijing, PRC

Pension Reform – Building sustainable solutions (I - II steps) – International Training program (Coordinated by BICON/SIDA in Stockholm, Sweden and Kiev, Ukraine)

Workshop on Social Safety Net, USAID/World Learning, Likani, Georgia

Advanced Training Course for Planners and Managers of Higher Education Institutions, (Coordinated by International Institute for Education Policy, Planning and Management/UNESCO) Bakuriani, Georgia

Alberto Vilar Medical Internship Program - OSI- American-Austrian Foundation, Vienna, Austria

Salzburg-Cornell Seminar on Psychiatry - AAF-OSI, Salzburg, Austria

International Training Seminar on Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors, Copenhagen, Denmark (Sponsored by RCT/IRCT)

Work experience:

Since 2019 to present  -Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Vice Rector for Research

2016-2019  - Member of Academic Council

2014-2016/  01/08/12 to present -Member of Representative Council

Professor, Head of Chair of Psychiatry & Medical Psychology

05/10/15 to present  -Center for Mental Health and Prevention of Addiction Ltd

Deputy General Director by Science

07/11 -09/15 -Refferal Hospital Unimed-Kakheti Ltd

Head of MH Department

07/07-03/09  - Health and Social Programs Agency of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Advisor to Director 

06/04-02/07 -State United Social Insurance Fund of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

Chairperson of the Supervising Council

2004 -Ministry of Labor Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

Deputy Minister

1995-2010 -Research Institute of Psychiatry, Tbilisi, Georgia

Scientific Director 

Main  publications:

1.  Interdisciplinary collaboration in Practice; The Georgia Process and Model (2018) Halbreich U., Chkonia E., Okribelashvili N., Karosanidze I , Goginashvili K. in book: Advances in Psychiatry edited by Afzal Javed, Kostas N. Fountoulakis Edition: Springer, 2019 pp.267-278
 

2.   Culture and prevalence of hallucinations in schizophrenia - Bauer, S.M., Schanda, H., Karakula, H., Olajossy- Hilkesberger, L., Rudaleviciene, P., Okribelashvili, N., Chaudhry, H.R., Idemudia, E.E., Gscheider, S., Ritter, K., Stompe, T. - Comprehensive Psychiatry. [Oxford] : Elsevier Science. ISSN 0010-440X. Vol. 52, iss. 3 (2011), p. 319-325.
 

3.   Traumatization & Forcible Migration: Past Experience & Future Challenges (Impact of the 2008 Russia–Georgia War)” – 2009 - Proceedings in report of NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) 2009 "Returnees and the social reconstruction of communities affected by armed conflicts” pp.59-61
 

4.   Suicide motives and culture - degree of modernisation, response behavior and acceptance – 2008 - Ritter, K., Chaudhry, HR., Idemudia, S.E., Karakula, H., Okribelashvili, N., Rudaleviciene, P., Stompe, T - World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review (2008) - Vol. 3, N. 2, pp.69-76
 

5.  The psychological aspects of burning mouth syndrome - Kenchadze R.,  Iverieli M., Okribelashvili N., Geladze N., Khachapuridze N. Georgian Med News, 2011 May ;(194):24-8 21685517
 

6.  War Related Stress –Naneishvili G., Okribelashvili N., Gigolashvili K. - in: “Novel Approaches To The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” M.J. Roy (Ed.) IOS Press, 2006 pp.264-268 ISSN: 1574-5597

Involvement in public activities:

Chairperson, Union of Georgian Medical Associations

Secretary General, Georgian Society of Psychiatrists

Member, World Association on Dual Disorders 

Alumni of JFDP