Professor John Joska
Professor and Head of Division
MBChB UCT, FC(Psych) SA, MMed(Psych) UCT, PhD UCT,
Cert Neuropsychiatry (SA)
Position
Head of Division: Neuropsychiatry
Director: HIV Mental Health Research Unit
Current Research Interests and Projects
1. Interventions into improving Neuropsychiatric Outcomes in PLWH, including biologic and psychotherapeutic strategies
2. Audit and description of services and pathways to care - including screening tools, methods and approaches
3. Investigations into the mechanisms of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, with an emphasis on clinical, imaging and inflammatory descriptors
4. Training and skills transfer for mental health, and neurocognitive/neuropsychiatric disorders in particular