{"id":168,"date":"2019-04-26T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:26:35","slug":"fabrizio-schifano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/speakers\/fabrizio-schifano\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Schifano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-313 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/files\/2019\/04\/picture-2019-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/files\/2019\/04\/picture-2019-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/files\/2019\/04\/picture-2019.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>Professor Fabrizio Schifano; MD, FRCPsych, Dip Psychiatry, Dip Clin Pharmacology<\/p>\n<p>Current commitments<br \/>\nChair in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Head of the \u2018Psychopharmacology, Drugs of Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances\u2019 research Unit School of Clinical and Phramaceutical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire (UK)<br \/>\nEuropean Medicines Agency (EMA); Member of the Specialist Advisory Group (Psychiatry)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consultant Psychiatrist; Addictions (CGL Drug and Alcohol Hertfordshire Recovery Services; UK)<br \/>\nHon Consultant Psychiatrist (Camden and Islington NHS Trust, London, UK)<\/p>\n<p>Contributions to knowledge<br \/>\nI am one of the very few physicians in Europe with training and specialist qualifications in both psychiatry and clinical pharmacology. Outstanding contribution has been made to several areas, including: Novel psychoactive substances\/NPS; Internet and drugs. These are new areas of research and I have been the Principal Investigator of 6 consecutive EU Commission-funded, multi-centre (i.e.: 12 EU countries), NPS-based, research programme (since 2002).<\/p>\n<p>Awards:<br \/>\nJune 2006: \u2018START\u2019 prize; given by the Italian Cabinet Ministers\u2019 Presidency for my addiction research;<br \/>\nApril 2009-ongoing: Bronze Award (9 national points) from the Clinical Excellence Awards NHS Consultants\u2019 scheme<br \/>\nOctober 2013: European Commission\/EC; European Health Award to the ReDNet (Schifano as PI) for best EC-funded project<br \/>\nJune 2015: University of Hertfordshire \u2018Excellence in Research\u2019 category winner<\/p>\n<p>In summary<br \/>\nAll through my specialist training in Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology I focussed my interest on the understanding of issues related to both use and misuse of psychotropic drugs and psychiatric comorbidities. I believe that I made substantial contribution to knowledge in the clinical psychopharmacology\/addiction field both in the UK and in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Fabrizio Schifano; MD, FRCPsych, Dip Psychiatry, Dip Clin Pharmacology Current commitments Chair in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Head of the \u2018Psychopharmacology, Drugs of Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances\u2019 research Unit School of Clinical and Phramaceutical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire (UK) European Medicines Agency (EMA); Member of the Specialist Advisory Group (Psychiatry) &nbsp; Consultant Psychiatrist; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/issnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}