The Dissertation Council of the Mental health research center is the board of the lead scientists, authorized to examine dissertations on Psychiatry (specialty 14.01.06: Psychiatry, Medical sciences) and to confer the rank of a Candidate or a Doctor of Medical Sciences to a competitor.

The Dissertation Council of the MHRC holds the number D 001.028.01 and is affirmed by Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education since Oct. 5, 2009 (order № 105/нк from 11.04.2012) and effective during the period approved by the Ministry of Education and Science for the list of science work specialists (order № 59 from 25.02.2009).

Dissertations and abstracts must be submitted in accordance with the State Standart (ГОСТ Р 7.0.11-2011).

Chairman: Aleksandra N. Barkhatova
Doctor of Medcine, Academic Secretary of FSBSI MHRC, Head of Department of endogenous mental disorders and affective states

Vice-chairmen:

Tatiana P. Kliushnik Director of FSBSI “Mental Health Research Center”, Doctor of Medcine, Professor,

Svetlana I. Gavrilova Head of the Department of geriatric psychiatry of FSBSI “Mental Health Research Center”, Doctor of Medcine, Professor

Scientific Secretary of the Dissertation Council: Irina Y. Nikiforova
Lead Researcher, MHRC. Candidate of Medical Sciences.

Technical Secretary: Irina V. Zakharova Tel. +7 (495) 109-0369

Members of the Council

• Lilia I. Abramova
  Lead Research Scientist, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine.
• Yuri F. Antropov
  Professor of the Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. Doctor of Medicine.
• Dmitry Y. Veltischev
  Head of the Stress Disorders Department, Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Psychiatry. Doctor of Medicine.
• Alla G. Golovina
  Lead Research Scientist, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine.
• Etery B. Dubnitskaya
  Chief Research Scientist, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
• Stanislav V. Ivanov
  Head of the Division, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
• Vasiliy G. Kaleda
  Deputy Director of the Centre for Development and Innovations, Head of the Department of youth psychiatry, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
• Vladimir V. Kalinin
  Head of the Department of endogenous - organic disorders and epilepsy, Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Psychiatry. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
• Elena V. Kolyutskaya
• Head of the Division, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
• Natalia A. Mazaeva
  Head of the Scientific Department, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
• Natalia M. Mikhailova
  Lead Research Scientist, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine.
• Margarita A. Morozova
  Head of the Laboratory, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine.
• Galina P. Panteleeva
  Chief Research Scientist, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
• Nataliya D. Selezneva
  Lead Research Scientist, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine.
• Natalia V. Simashkova
  Head of the Department, MHRC. Doctor of Medicine.
• Anatoliy B. Smulevich
  Head of the Scientific Department, MHRC. Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor.
• Vera Y. Golimbert
• Head of the Laboratory of clinical genetics, FSBSI “Mental Health Research Center”, Doctor of Biology, professor