Biography - Injac Lidija+

Assistant Professor Lidija Injac Stevovic, PhD in Medical Science, was born in 1961 in Mojkovac, Montenegro, where she finished elementary and secondary school. She enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina in 1982/3 and graduated in 1989. She started specialization in Psychiatry in 1993 at the Clinical Center of Montenegro, Department of Neuropsychiatry, and continued her studies at the Institute for Psychiatry of the Clinical Center of Serbia in Belgrade  (1994-1997). She passed the specialist psychiatric examination at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade in 1997.

Dr Injac Stevovic defended her master's thesis entitled "Suicide, research of motives, causes and consequences" at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, in 2006.

She defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Factors of suicidal risk: gender differences" at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, in 2011, being the first one to obtain PhD degree in Faculty of Medicine in Montenegro.

Since 1989, she has been working at the Clinical Center of Montenegro in Podgorica where she has been delivering medical services, and since 1990 she has been employed in the Health Care Center in Podgorica. Since 1991 she worked in the Health Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro, and in 1992 she was appointed Head of the Health Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro. In addition, she was a lecturer for various courses and symposiums for members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro. Since March 2012 she has been working at the Psychiatric Clinic of KCCG. She has been working at the Medical Faculty of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica since October 2005, as an associate in Psychiatry. In July 2006, she was selected as teaching assistant and she was elected Assistant Professor in 2012, being in charge of Psychiatry and Fundamentals of Behavioral Science at the Faculty of Medicine and Dental Medicine. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Medical College in Berane. From 2012 to 2017, she has been teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic at the Department of Psychology and the Department of Pedagogy as well as at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Social Work. She is a regular lecturer at the Specialist Studies in the field of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica. Since 2014, she has been appointed as the Chief Mentor of the Psychiatric Coordinator as well as mentors for specialization in psychiatry and related disciplines.

She is the main researcher and manager in project IMPULSE, H2020, approved by the European Commission, which is the first project from the H2020 group in Montenegro. The Queen Mary University of London is main coordinator of the project. The IMPULSE project aims to enable the development of an effective health care for patients with severe mental illness, implementing an intervention model called DIALOG+ which is based on scientific evidence, is easily implemented and creates savings in the health system. The intervention is supported by technology and is based on communication in which the focus is on the patient, on the quality of life research and is focused on the therapy to find solutions to the problem. The IMPULSE project will develop a contextually appropriate approach and optimize the implementation of the intervention method in different health systems, examining at the same time how local, organizational and national factors affect implementation, sustainability and economic costs.

She attended several psychiatric educations, such as cognitive psychotherapy education at the Psychiatric Clinic and Department for Psychotherapy - Warneford Hospital-Department of Psychology, Oxford, England (1996), Berlin Summer School Course on “Psychiatry, a Science”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin (2000), and attended the Benjamin Franklin Psychiatric Clinic, Berlin. She participated in the European Forum, Symposium "Modern Strategies in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders", Berlin, Germany (2000). She completed her education in Primary prevention of addictive diseases (ECPD), Belgrade (2004). She participated at the Maudsley Forum, the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley, King’s College, London (2005). She completed the Training GCP (Good Clinical Practice) in 2009. She participated at the International Invitation Conference Amsterdam, organized by the Netherlands Psychiatric Association, EACCME (2011). She participated in the first meeting of the IMPULSE project at the Queen Mary University of London (2018).

In the two mandates (2009-2011 and 2012-2015), she was the President of the Association of Psychiatrists of Montenegro and during that time she organized the First National Congress of the Association of Psychiatrists of Montenegro with international participation, under the auspices of the World Psychiatric Association in October 2012 in Budva. During the two mandates, she organized numerous professional meetings and educational symposiums with domestic and foreign lecturers. In the course of 2015, the textbook of Addiction Disease-Development of activities on prevention, treatment, education and research in the Balkan countries was published, edited by Prof. Dr. Ivan Dimitrijevic. Dr. Injac Stevovic is the author of the chapter entitled "Activities in the field of dependence in Montenegro since 2000 and dual diagnosis". This textbook is used based on Decision of the Council for Specialist Teaching of the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, no. 0-4 / 39-66 / 40/17. On 22/09/2014 it was accepted as a textbook for postgraduate training of doctors. Dr. Injac Stevovic was a member of the working group for the preparation of the National Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice entitled "Schizophrenia" (Ministry of Health of Montenegro, 2012). Next, she was a reviewer of the National Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice of the Ministry of Health of Montenegro entitled "Clinical Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of depression in Montenegro" (2018). Additionally, she was a member of the Working Group for drafting the Suicide Prevention Plan in Montenegro (Decision of the Minister of Health no.011.301 / 2017 of 03/07/2017). She is a member of the National Mental Health Committee. She is a member of editorial board of the journal “Psychiatry”, UPCG. As a lecturer, she held several lectures in the country and abroad, especially in the field of suicide. She is the author of numerous scientific papers published in international and national journals. Dr. Injac Stevovic is mentoring several undergraduate and specialist theses. She is a member of the Association of Psychiatrists of Montenegro and the Section for the Suicidology of the European Association. She is also a member of the Medical Chamber of Montenegro and the Association of Doctors of Montenegro. She speaks English. She is married and mother of the single child.