Name: Rania Elgarf
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 24 January 2023

Immune biomarkers in psychiatry and their relevance for treatment strategies
Date: 24 January 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Valeria Mondelli (Kings College London)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Series
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Susannah Murphy (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

New psychological therapies for psychosis
Date: 2 May 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Professor Daniel Freeman (University of Oxford), Felicity Waite (University of Oxford ), Bryony Sheaves, Sinead Lambe (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Alan Stein (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 May 2023

The quest to make a real difference in serious mental illness
Date: 9 May 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Husseini Manji (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: John Geddes (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

New Capabilities in Machine Learning for Clinical Data
Date: 16 May 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor David Clifton (Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Alejo Nevado - Holgado (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 May 2023

How do Dopaminergic Agonist Drugs Work in Depression
Date: 23 May 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 June 2023

Reproduction and mental health
Date: 6 June 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Trine Munk-Olsen (University of Southern Denmark)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Katharine Smith (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 June 2023

8th Course in Network Meta-Analyses
Date: 19 June 2023, 9:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford), Professor Toshiaki Furukawa (Kyoto University School of Public Health, Japan), Professor Georgia Salanti (Bern University), Professor Orestis Efthimiou (Bern University), Professor Stefan Leucht (Technical University of Munich), Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 June 2023

Revising the diagnosis of depression using causal and descriptive ontologies
Date: 27 June 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Gin Malhi (The University of Sydney)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 September 2023

Gamma-Band Oscillations and Schizophrenia: A Translational and Developmental Perspective
Date: 12 September 2023, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Philip McGuire (University of Oxford)

A case series of young people treated for neuroimmune mediated mood or psychotic syndromes
Date: 12 September 2023, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Elizabeth Scott (The University of Sydney)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 September 2023

environMENTAL - Reducing the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health
Date: 19 September 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Gunter Schumann (Charite Berlin)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room | Zoom
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 October 2023

Neural Network Analysis with Resting-state Functional Connectivity
Date: 11 October 2023, 11:00 - 11:45
Speaker : Professor Yasuhiro Kawasaki (Kanazawa Medical University, Japan)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room | Zoom
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Philip McGuire (University of Oxford)

Chicken, egg, or confounding effect? The need for deep phenotyping in psychiatric omics biomarker studies
Date: 11 October 2023, 11:45 - 12:30
Speaker : Chloe Yap (University of Queensland)
Venue Details: Seminar Room | Zoom
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Philip McGuire (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 October 2023

What causes 'brain fog' after COVID-19? Results from the PHOSP-COVID prospective cohort study
Date: 17 October 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Maxime Taquet (University of Oxford), Professor Paul Harrison (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room | Zoom
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Harrison (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023

Towards Precision Psychiatry: CNS Discovery Research at Boehringer Ingelheim
Date: 24 October 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Elizabeth Tunbridge (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room | Zoom
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Harrison (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

The Rise and Fall of Kraepelinian Psychiatry
Date: 14 November 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Awais Aftab (Case Western Reserve University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Sharpe

Tuesday 21 November 2023

New Frontiers for Prevention Psychiatry
Date: 21 November 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Ian Kelleher (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room | Zoom
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Belinda Lennox (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

Placebo Studies and the Replication Crisis
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 November 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Edward Harcourt (Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Student Disability, Counselling and Mental Health Service Design & Delivery: Navigating Paternalism and Overmedicalisation in UK Higher Education.
Date: 7 May 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Jane Harris (University of Oxford), Katherine Noren Curtis (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2024

Metabolites and lipids in early psychosis
Date: 23 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Alex Dickens (University of Turku)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Philip McGuire (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 June 2024

The Detection of Phenomenology of ARFID: Considerations to Guide Treatment Selection
Date: 11 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Nancy Zucker (Duke University, Durham, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Kate Stein (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Professor Alan Stein, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)

Monday 17 June 2024

9th Course in Network Meta-Analyses
Date: 17 June 2024, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford), Orestis Efthimiou (University of Bern), Georgia Salanti (University of Bern), Toshi A Furukawa (Japan), Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics), Dr Edoardo Ostinelli (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 October 2024

Brain vulnerability for psychosis: from mechanisms to real-world outcomes
Date: 8 October 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Gemma Modinos (Kings College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Philip McGuire (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Academic Director, SPRINT. Principal Investigator, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

New Peripheral Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Pancreatic Hormone Secretion and Antipsychotic Drug-induced Metabolic Disturbances
Date: 15 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Zachary Freyberg (University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights
Date: 22 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Soraya Seedat (Stellanbosch University, South Africa)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: John Geddes (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

CBT for Insomnia: Ingredients, Indications, and Implementation
Date: 5 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Yuki Furukawa (Technical University of Munich)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder/Group Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Edoardo Ostinelli (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Psychiatry: Insights From Genetic Association Studies and Peripheral Blood Immunphenotyping
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 12 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Mary-Ellen Lynall (Cambridge University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

Advancing the genetics of psychiatric disorders: depression and eating disorders
Date: 26 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Gerome Breen (Kings College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 December 2024

Pharmacogenetic and pharmaco-epidemiological approaches to synergistically boost precision pharmacotherapy in psychiatry
Date: 3 December 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jurjen Luykx (Maastricht University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Belinda Lennox (Associate Professor and Clinical Senior Lecturer, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)

Tuesday 10 December 2024

U-Flourish research: Translating evidence into sustainable early intervention targeting common mental health concerns in university students
Date: 10 December 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Anne Duffy (Queen's University, Ontario)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Treatments for ADHD in adults: what works, what doesn't, and what we still do not know
Date: 21 January 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Edoardo Ostinelli (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Don't go breaking my heart: unique pathways to cardiac dysfunction in psychosis and implications for clinical practice
Date: 28 January 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Toby Pillinger (Kings College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Towards Unequal Care: Developing Sex Informed Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
Date: 11 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Bodyl Brand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Population health impact of new medicines recommended by NICE in England, 2000-2020
Date: 25 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

The efficacy and safety of pramipexole augmentation in treatment resistant depression: Results of the PAX-D trial.
Date: 4 March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Phil Cowen (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Understanding and treating social anxiety in youth.
Date: 11 March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Eleanor Leigh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Mina Fazel (NIHR Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford )