Coordinators:

Eddie Landau
CF Graub Center, Pulmonary Institute, Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Israel 
Petah Tikva
Israel

Sonia Graziano
Department of Neurological Sciences, Unit of Clinical Psychology, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital - Rome
​​​​​​​Italy

 

   

The working group is composed of representatives from several European countries and includes patient and caregiver representatives

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Annual report 2020

Annual report 2019

Annual report 2018

 

Aims and objectives

• To develop a multidisciplinary network of clinicians and researchers to facilitate and 
support the dissemination and implementation of the Mental Health Guidelines. 

• To monitor the implementation of Mental Health Screening and identify the range of clinical practice and treatment referral pathways across Europe. 

• To identify driving and restraining themes that CF teams encounter when implementing the guidelines to inform resource issues (financial, physical, human and informational) and best practice. 

• To determine patient / parent and clinician-reported effectiveness / impact of Mental Health Screening. 

• To incorporate Mental Health variables into the ECFS Registry 

• To promote excellence in Mental Health research across the European CF Community 

 

Members of the Core Working Group

Janice Abbott  (Psychologist UK)
Urszula Borawska (Psychologist, Poland)
Riccardo Ciprandi (Psychologist, Italy) 
Johanna Gardecki  (Psychologist, Germany)
Anna Georgiopoulos (Psychiatrist, US; CFF Representative)
Sonia Graziano (Psychologist, Italy)
Trudy Havermans (Psychologist, Belgium)
Pavla Hodková (Psychologist, Czech Republic)
Stina Järvholm (Psychologist, Sweden) 
Diana Kadosh (Social Worker, Israel)
Annette Katscher-Peitz (Psychologist, Germany)
Maya Kirszenbaum (Psychologist, France)  
Horst Mitmanssgruber  (Psychologist, Austria)
Jacquelien Noordhoek 
(European Parent Association, the Netherlands)
Olga Polaetva (Psychologist, Russia)
Yvonne Prins (Adult with CF and Psychologist, the Netherlands)
Ulrike Smrekar  (Psychologist, Austria)
Ralf Thalemann (Psychologist, Germany)

Representation of the ‘global’ ECFS MH Working Group as of May 2017 

Australia 

Cindy Branch-Smith 
Alice Morgan

Austria    

Helmut Ellemunter 
Ulrike Smrekar

Belgium    

Trudy Havermans 

Bulgaria    

Guergana Stoyanova

Croatia    

Srdjan Banac
Dorian Tjesic Drinkovic

Czech Republic    

Pavla Hodková

Estonia    

Urve Putnik
Maire Vasar

France

Maya Kirszenbaum 

Germany  

​​​​​​​Annette Katscher-Peitz
​​​​​​​Doris Staab 

Greece    

Argyri Petrocheilou

Hungary    

Adrienn Halász

Ireland    

Helen Gibbons
Gary Killeen

Israel    

Diana Kadosh 
Edwina Landau 

Italy    

Paola Catastini   
Nicoleta Popa  

The Netherlands    

Jacquelien Noordhoek 
Yvonne Prins 
Marieke Verkleij

Poland    

Urszula Borawska
Renata Zubrzycka

Portugal  

Celeste Barreto

Russia    

Yulia Gorinova
Tatyana Sviridova

Slovenia    

Majda Ostir
Valentina Stefanovo

Spain    

Inéz Pérez
Amparo Solé

Sweden    

Stina Järvholm

Switzerland    

Constance Barazzone 
Julie Halimi 
Daniel Schechter

Ukraine    

Kateryna Yavna

United Kingdom    

Janice Abbott
Sophie Cammidge 

United States (CFF representative)    

Anna Georgiopoulos
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