Personal Information

Born: 1969, married: +3

Research interests

Studying schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, dementia, suicide, and psychiatric epidemiology with electronic health registries, population-based registry study designs or clinical trial data, using  R and often advanced psychometrics.

Education

2004  Ph.D. Psychology, University of Surrey, UK

1998  MSc. Occupational Psychology, LGU, UK

1996  BSc. Psychology, LGU, UK

Employment

Active grants 

1. 2021-2023. Dementia in Israel

Ministry of Social Services. 120,000 NIS, Primary Investigator

2. 2019 – 2023. Rheumatoid arthritis and Autism Spectrum Disorder

National Institute of Health, US. Local Primary Investigator. 200,000 USD

3. 2019-2023 University of Haifa Data Science Research Center

Council for Higher Education, Israel. 2,361,000 NIS, Co-Investigator.

Executed grants

1. 2013 – 2017. Autism Center for Excellence. 

National Institute of Health. Local Primary Investigator.

2. 2013 – 2016. Severe Mental Health Disorders among Holocaust Survivors and their Offspring: A Multi-Generation National Population-Based Study. Israel Science Foundation, Primary Investigator.

3. 2013 – 2015. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Risk for Autism. 

Maccabi Health Services. Primary Investigator.

4. 2013 – 2015. Residual symptoms of depression. 

Shire Pharmaceuticals, Primary Investigator.

5. 2013 – 2014. Severe mental health disorders among Holocaust survivors. 

Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Holocaust Education, Research and Documentation -Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Primary Investigator 

6. 2012 – 2013. Understanding the link between academic excellence and risk of bipolar disorder: A test of two competing hypotheses in an Israeli population-based cohort; NARSAD, Local Primary Investigator. 

7. 2010 – 2012. Change in Cost in Outcomes in the Treatment of Schizophrenia; Eli Lilly, Primary Investigator. 

8. 2010 – 2014. Advanced data analysis techniques for more efficient trials, biomarker identification and placebo-response differentiation; 

Innovative Medicines Initiative, European Commission, Investigator. 

9. 2008 – 2009. Differentiation in the Relationship Between Outcomes and Premorbid Cognitive Functioning in Schizophrenia; 

Israel Foundation Trustees, Primary Investigator 

10. 1999 – 2002. European Social Research Council (R00429934519), 

PhD research grant.

Awards

2009 Winter workshop in Schizophrenia, Spain

2009 Young Investigator Travel Award Recipient for 'superior' schizophrenia research,

        International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, San Diego

Invited talks

2011 Guest talk: Trajectories of schizophrenia: Course of illness in national population-based cohorts, and treatment response in clinical trials. Israeli Psychiatric Association (Tel-Aviv Branch).

2008 Expert testimony to the Knesset appointed Kannai committee on sentencing guidelines.

2007 Guest talk: Advances on: I. Age of onset and course of illness and II. Course of schizophrenia. Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

Journal Reviewer

Editorial board member: European Neuropsychopharmacology (IF= 4.239).

Academic editorial board member: PLoS One (2018-2022).

International Editorial Advisory Board: International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences

Ad hoc reviewer (65 + journals): Accident Analysis and Prevention, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Administrative Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, American Journal of Psychiatry, Australian Journal of Psychology, Basic and Applied Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, BMC Psychiatry, BMC Psychology, BMC Medical Research Methodology, BMJ Open, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, British Journal of Psychiatry, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Conflict and Health, CNS Spectrums, Crime and Delinquency, Current Research and Medical Opinion, Development and Psychopathology, Epidemiology Open Access, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, European Psychiatry, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, International Journal of Comparative & Applied Criminal Justice, International Journal of Epidemiology, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, International Journal of Psychology, International Psychogeriatrics, International Journal of Stress Management, Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related Disorders, Molecular Psychiatry, JAMA Neurology, JAMA Psychiatry, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Behavioral Health,  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Journal of Pediatric Neurology, Journal of Trauma & Disassociation, Justice Quarterly, Military Medicine, Molecular Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Psychiatry, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Nordic Journal Of Psychiatry, Personality and Individual Differences, PLOS ONE, Psychiatry Research, Psychopathology, Psychological Assessment, Psychological Medicine, Psychological Reports, Psychopharmacology, Psychosis, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Stigma and Health, Translational Psychiatry, Violence and Victims, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

Administrative Roles

2011-ongoing. Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences: Ethics Committee member.

2011-2016. Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences: Faculty Research Committee.

2011-2021. Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa: Colloquium organizer and PhD committee member.

2011.      Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University

Head of search committee for the head of the department.

BA course organization committee member

2009-2011. Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, 

                   Responsibilities: colloquium organizer, BA course committee, and departmental web-page content

2007.          Local organizing committee member: "Victimology and the Law – An International Conference"

Invited talks

2011 Guest talk: Trajectories of schizophrenia: Course of illness in national population-based cohorts, and treatment response in clinical trials. Israeli Psychiatric Association (Tel-Aviv Branch).

2008 Expert testimony to the Knesset appointed Kannai committee on sentencing guidelines.

2007 Guest talk: Advances on: I. Age of onset and course of illness and II. Course of schizophrenia. Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

Professional Membership

Current memberships

International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology 

Israeli Psychometric Association

Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART)

Schizophrenia International Research Society

Past memberships - British Psychological Society (76567), International Society for the Study of Individual Differences