Organizing Committee Member
Polyxeni Georgila
Director of the Psychiatric Department for Adults
General Hospital G. Gennimatas
Greece
Biography
Polyxeni Georgila is Director of the adult psychiatric department of the general hospital "G. Gennimatas " in Athens Greece. She studied Medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in neurology-psychiatry at Eginition Hospital in Athrns Greece. He has undergone postgraduate training at the Karolinska University Clinic in Stockholm on emotional disorders, methadone programs and alcohol groups. She has attended the program of cognitive therapy of Prof. Papakostas at Eginition. She was a member of the Mental Health Committee of the Ministry of Health in Greece. She is the first psychiatrist in Greece, who supported the first implementation of the Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT) in Greece and contributed to the further application of IPT to the Greek population. She participated als trainer in CBT and in IPT in the Hellenic Society for the training in CBT and in the Institute of Behavioral Therapy and Research in Athens from 2009-2017. She guides the trainings program for Psychiatrists in training in the psychiatric department for adults of the General hospital ‘G. Gennimatas†in Athens Greece. She developed the IPT postgraduate program for psychologists and psychiatrists in Greece, who has been trained in CBT. She is a trainer in CBT and in the IPT postgraduate program in cooperation with S. Rakitzi. She participated in many national and international conferences about mental health disorders as speaker and she is an author of papers in greek and international journals and books. Her research interests focus on psychiatric treamtent and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy generally and especially by schizophrenia and bipolar patients. She is a member of Hellenic Psychiatric Association in Athens.
Research Area
Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia, Neurology-Psychiatry