Head of Department:

Mária Kopp M.D.,Ph.D.

Staff:

István Mucsi MD, PhD.(4 hours)
Márta Novák MD, PhD.
András Szentkirályi MD, PhD.

Invited lecturers:

Andor Harrach MD.
István Sal MD.
Márta Varga, PhD student (Coordinator of Behavioural medicine/Psychosomatic medicine course)

PhD-students:

Mária Eszter Czira
Anett Lindner
Csilla Madarász
Lilla Szeifert
Rezső Zoller

Thematic courses (in Hungarian)

Behavioural medicine/psychosomatic medicine I-I (Course leader: Maria Kopp)

Clinical epidemiology: theoretical basis of clinical studies (Course leader: István Mucsi)

Elective course:

Psychosomatic medicine (course German language, course leader: Andor Harrach)

Further elective courses:

Sleep medicine (Course leader Ferenc Túry, Márta Novák)(in English language)

Main topics:

-   psycho-nephrology,

-      sleeping disorder

-      stress management methods

-      depression and suicide prevention,

-      life skills management programmes,

-      positive psychology,

-      community based preventive programmes

Teaching activity:

At the Faculty of Medicine

-     clinical facultation,

-      psychosomatic medicine in German language

At the Faculty of Pharmacy

-      clinical facultation

Grants in 2010:

-      EU7 - OSPI-Europe: Optimizing suicide prevention programs and their implementation in Europe (2009-2011)

-      EU-7 „Working Conditions and Adaptation to Change: Study of Health Issues Associated With Restructuring” (Restructuring Survey) (2008-2010)

-      „Gender Medicine”- Lifelong Learning programme, Erasmus (2009-2011)

-      National Work related Stress prevention programme www.selye.hu,

-       OTKA 73754 Psychosocial protective and risk factors of health status and wellbeing of the Hungarian population throughout the life course. (2008-2010)

-      ETT 100/2009 Prevention of work related stress factors (2009-2011).

-      University of Toronto: A longitudinal study of quality of life and depression in patients with chronic kidney disease through transition to dialysis (2007-2011)

-      Collaboration with University of  Toronto: Inflammatory markers and depressive symptoms in chronic kidney disease (2007-2012)

Our Department publishes the Journal „Mentálhigiéne és Pszichoszomatika”:

Editor in chief Mária Kopp

Editor: Barna  Konkoly Thege

We organize sessions of the Demographic roundtable.

We give premises to the MTA-SE Mental Health Sciences Research Group