Giorgi (Guga) Sikharulidze
Psychiatrist, Ph.D.
- Professor at Georgian American University (GAU)
- Professor at International Training University of Management and Communication “Alterbridge”.
- PhD candidate of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).
After completing residency (2002-2005), continuous medical practice since 2005.
His impact in the field of mental health is significant. He co-founded the first private mental health center in Georgia in 2007 and founded the “Stress Management and Mental Health Center” in 2017.
Founder and head of the “Guga Sikharulidze Mental Health Center”, renewed since 2024.
Since 2015, a doctoral student at Leiden University (Holland) and currently a doctoral candidate. Scientific research direction – post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression and the relationship between psychosomatic disorders.
Since 2013, he has been the head of the Department of Military Mental Health Services in Georgia for the first time with his project. Implemented psychological assessment, assistance, treatment and rehabilitation, psychological screening (Psychological HR), suicide prevention and programs.
Since 2018, a member of the expert group of the NATO program (Science for Peace and Security), whose goal is to introduce innovations in the direction of stress risk management.
Expert and treatment experience:
▪ outpatient and inpatient services ▪ Stress/trauma-related disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (with research experience) ▪ Anxiety disorders ▪ Mood disorders (depression, bipolar, etc.) ▪ suicide prevention ▪ Sleep disorders ▪ Personality (character) disorders ▪ Psycho-somatic disorders ▪ full range of psychotic disorders ▪ military mental services ▪ disorders associated with dementia).
He is engaged in ongoing scientific research within a collaboration framework with Leiden University and Prof. Eric Vermeten. He is also a clinical investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a partnership that ensures the highest research and clinical practice standards.
Author of more than 20 scientific publications.
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8778-122X | Researcher ID L-3330-2016 |
Scopus Author ID: 14527751700