PhD Лилјана Игњатова
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Psychiatry, dependence, gender issue

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/8928 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7867 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7906 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7901 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7904 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7903 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7902 COBISS.SR-ID 25469228 https://rm.coe.int/drug-treatment-systems-in-prisons-in-eastern-and-south-east-europe/168075b999 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/31080 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/31079 Prof. Dr. Liliana Ignjatova was born in 1961, in Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje on June 30, 1986. She worked at the Institute of Anatomy for a certain period of time in 1988/89, and has been employed at the Skopje Psychiatric Hospital on a permanent basis since July 1989. On July 12, 1994, she passed the specialist exam and since then has been working at the Center for Drug Addiction at the PHI Psychiatric Hospital Skopje. On June 8, 2006, she defended her master's thesis: "Risk factors affecting the effectiveness of methadone maintenance therapy." She defended her doctoral dissertation: "The influence of gender on the effectiveness of a methadone maintenance program" on December 6, 2010. Prof. Dr. Liliana Ignatova is actively involved in teaching Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. She was elected in the title: junior assistant 2003, assistant 2008, assistant professor 2014, associate professor 2019, full professor 2023. She is the author of several guidelines, protocols and manuals in the field of addictions and HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as monographs and book chapters published by ECPD and the Council of Europe. From 2008 to 2017, she was responsible for the training of the Ministry of Health for the professional services in the addiction treatment centers in the country. She is a UNODC trained trainer in addiction, cognitive behavioral techniques, family systems therapy and management of addiction treatment services. She qualified as an international addiction coach in 2017. Within the framework of projects from the European Commission, in 2023 she published 2 papers with a group of authors: "The sensitivity of drug policies towards women, pregnancy and motherhood: analysis of the content of national policies and programs from nine countries and their adherence to international guidelines" and " Opioid Agonist Maintenance Treatment Outcomes - OPTIMUS Evidence-Based International Consensus and Patient-Centered Care, Interim Report".