Editorial Board

Mohsen Khosravi
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
E-mail: dr_khosravi2016@yahoo.com; m.khosravi@zaums.ac.ir | ORCID

Dr. Mohsen Khosravi obtained M.D. degree in 2012 from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran; and completed his psychiatry residency training successfully at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2016. Since 2019, he has been working as assistant professor and clinical psychiatrist at Zahedan University of Medical sciences. He translated “Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology-5th Edition” into Persian in 2018 and also compiled a book for psychiatrists and psychologists entitled “Clinical Interviewing in Psychiatric Disorders: A Practical Approach [Based on DSM-5]” in 2019. He is specialized in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and works also as psychotherapist mainly treating patients with borderline personality disorders. He published numerous articles in different international psychiatric journals. His interests are more in the research field of personality disorders particularly borderline personality disorder. His professional activities also include the reviewing of scientific manuscripts for high-impact journals such as Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, General Psychiatry, Pharmacopsychiatry, BMC Psychology, BMC Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, NPJ Schizophrenia, Nature and Science of Sleep, Frontiers in System Neuroscience, BMC Public Health, Personality and Individual Differences, Medical Hypotheses, BMC Nursing, European Journal of Medical Research, BMJ Open, BMC Medical Education, Journal of Eating Disorders, Scientific Reports, Psychological Reports, Stress and Health, Frontiers in Digital Health, Clinical Interventions in Aging, Current Psychology, Plos One, Diseases, Psychology Research and Behavior Management, Psychopathology, Healthcare, World journal of Psychiatry, Sage Open Medicine, Electronic Journal of General Medicine, etc. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Mental Wellness Journal, Associate Editor of Healthcare in Low-resource Settings, Academic Editor of BMC Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, and Peer J, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Translational Myology. He has also been guest editor for three Frontiers in Psychiatry special issues: “Psychometrics in Psychiatry 2022: Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry”; “Psychometrics in Psychiatry 2022: Psychological Therapy and Psychosomatics”; and “Case Reports in Psychological Therapy and Psychosomatics”, 2022.

Domenico De Berardis
Mental Health Center of Giulianova, ASL Teramo, Italy
E-mail: domenico.deberardis@aslteramo.it | ORCID

Prof. Domenico De Berardis holds both the Ph.D. and M.D. degrees. From January 2022 he is Director of the public Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Ward of Giulianova (Italy) and, from September 2022, head of the Department of Mental Health of Teramo (Italy). He collaborates independently with the Institute of Psychiatry of G. d’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He is specialized in Medicina delle Farmacotossicodipendenze, has attained a Ph.D. in Functional Neuroimaging at the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB) of the University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti and has a master in Clinical Psychopharmacology obtained at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milano. He has also achieved a master in Healthcare Communication in 2013 at University of Teramo and a master in Healthcare Management in 2016 at University of L'Aquila. He is specialized in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and works also as psychotherapist mainly treating patients with personality disorders and OCD. He is the principal investigator of several research projects, mostly related to alexithymia, anxiety disorders, suicide, schizophrenia, neuroimaging, and clinical psychopharmacology. He has published over 200 articles with impact factor, for an h-index of 45 (November 2022, Scopus database), and has frequently participated in national and international congresses as a speaker or through oral or written communications. He is Editor-in-chief of the Journal “Mental Illness” published by Hindawi Press. His professional activities also include the reviewing of scientific manuscripts for high-impact journals and is a member of the Editorial Board of several medical journal such as BMC Psychiatry, World Journal of Psychiatry, Brain Sciences, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Alpha Psychiatry, Diseases, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, World Journal of Case Reports, Psychiatry International, Women, Current Drug Therapy, Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Current Psychopharmacology, Depression Research and Treatment, Annals of Depression and Anxiety, International Journal of Clinical Toxicology, Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy Research, Bipolar Disorder: Open Access, Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology and Mental Health, Journal of Advanced Biomarkers Research and Journal of Sleep Medicine and Disorders. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychiatry and Evidence Based Psychiatric Care and Academic Editor of British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research.

Dominic McSherry
School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK
E-mail: d.mcsherry@ulster.ac.uk | ORCID

Prof. Dominic McSherry is a developmental psychologist whose work for the last 20 years has been focused on understanding the impact of experiencing adversity and trauma in childhood across the lifecourse, and using that knowledge to inform theory, policy and practice. His work has been focused primarily on children who enter care due to maltreatment, and either remains in care throughout their childhood, return home to birth parents, or are adopted. He has attracted over £3Million in external research funding as PI to support this work. He has led several large scale research projects in the area of children in care and adopted, some notable examples of which are: the OFMDFM-funded 'Mind Your Health' study (2015), which developed the first national profile of the physical and mental health of children and young people in care in Northern Ireland; and the ongoing ERSC-funded 'Care Pathways and Outcomes' study, the only longitudinal study in the world that has followed a full population of children (n=374) who were under the age of five and in care in Northern Ireland in March 2000, through to early adulthood. A strong feature of his work is the high level of co-design and co-production with external partner organizations involved. Dominic has published extensively in this area through journal articles, research reports, books, book chapters, and conference papers. He is a member of a number of UK research project scientific advisory committees, and a member of the ESRC and MRC peer review colleges. He has been guest editor for two journal special issues: “Understanding Outcomes for Care Experienced Children”, Children Australia, 2018; and “Adoption and Trauma”, Child Abuse and Neglect, 2021. He is currently Editor in Chief for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma (JCAT). He also represents the School of Psychology within the Faculty-level Institute of Mental Health Sciences.

Anka A. Vujanovic
University of Houston, USA
E-mail: aavujano@central.uh.edu | ORCID

Dr. Vujanovic is Professor of Psychology, a licensed clinical psychologist, and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston, where she is Director of the Trauma and Stress Studies Center and the First Responder Program. She serves as the Director of the Investigator Development Core of the HEALTH Center for Addictions Research and Cancer Prevention (NIMHD - RCMI). She holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston. She received a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in clinical psychology from the University of Vermont and completed the pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship program at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium. Her research program is focused on understanding the complexity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and some of its most prevalent and high-risk correlates, including substance use disorders (SUD) and suicide risk, through the study of underlying psychological mechanisms relevant to treatment development. Her work is comprised of interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) investigation of psychological and behavioral processes relevant to the etiology and maintenance of (a) PTSD symptoms and (b) PTSD/SUD; (2) examination of suicide risk among trauma-exposed populations; and (3) development of theoretically and empirically driven, novel interventions for PTSD and co-occurring conditions that target the psychological mechanisms isolated in more basic research. She has utilized various methodological approaches, including clinical trials, longitudinal methods, ecological momentary assessment, and experimental laboratory paradigms. Her studies have been conducted in academic clinical research centers, first responder departments, medical and mental health clinics, and acute-care psychiatric inpatient hospitals. Her work encompasses populations exposed to diverse types of trauma, including sexual trauma survivors, adults receiving psychiatric inpatient services, military veterans, first responders, and human trafficking survivors. She has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and private foundations. She is an Associate Editor for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness, and she serves on the editorial boards of seven additional journals. She has authored over 200 publications, including journal articles, books, and book chapters.