SmokeFreeBrain consortium is a trans-disciplinary, inter-cultural, multi-sector team that jointly brings in all the expertise, knowledge, and tools that are necessary for the success of the project. It also brings in a strong resource base of personnel, equipment, and from synergies with other projects that guarantees the fundamental building block upon which the project can develop successfully.
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- ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS (AUTH), Greece
- Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School
- http://medphys.med.auth.gr
- Contact:Project Coordinator: Panagiotis D. Bamidis, info@smokefreebrain.eu
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- UNIVERSITY OF SURREY (SURREY), United Kingdom (Terminated)
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- Public Health England/ Department of Health (PHE/DH), United Kingdom
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england
- Contact: Dr Timothy MARCZYLO, tim.marczylo@phe.gov.eu
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- AAI SCIENTIFIC CULTURAL SERVICES LIMITED (AAISCS), Cyprus
- http://www.aaiscs.com
- Contact: Dr Andreas Ioannides, a.ioannides@aaiscs.com
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- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA (UNISAP), Italy
- http://www.uniroma1.it
- Contact: Dr Fabio BABILONI, fabio.babiloni@uniroma1.it
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- SERVICIO ANDALUZ DE SALUD (SAS), Spain
- http://www.huvr.es
- Contact: Mr Carlos Luis Parra CALDERON, carlos.parra.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es
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- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN BULGARIA (NAGPB), Bulgaria
- http://www.nsoplb.com
- Contact: Assoc.Prof Lyubomir KIROV, kirov.lyubomir@gmail.com
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- Northern Greece Neurofeedback Center (NGNC), Greece
- http://www.NGNC.gr
- Contact: Mr Stathis SIDIROPOULOS, stathsid@gmail.com
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- HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY (HOU), Greece (Terminated)
- http://www.eap.gr
- Contact: Prof. Dimitris NIAKAS, niakas@eap.gr
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- SALUMEDIA TECNOLOGIAS SL (SAL), Spain
- http://www.salumedia.com
- Contact: Dr Luis FERNANDEZ LUQUE, luis@salumedia.com
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- INSTITUT ZA PLUCNE BOLESTI VOJVODINE (IPBV), Serbia
- http://www.institut.rs
- Contact: Dr Tomi KOVAČEVIĆ, tomikns@hotmail.com
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- UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA (USE), Spain
- http://www.us.es
- Contact: Dr Antón CIVIT, anton@atc.us.es
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- St GEORGE, UK
- http://www.sgul.ac.uk
- Contact: Dr Alexis BAILEY
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- UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER (UPRC), Greece
- http://www.unipi.gr/unipi/en
- Contact: Assistant Prof. Maria Raikou, mraikou@unipi.gr
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- TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (TMU), Taiwan
- http://www.tmu.edu.tw
- Contact: Dr. Shabbir Syed Abdul, drshabbir@tmu.edu.tw
All required competencies are present addressing multiple participants from the stakeholder ecosystem to provide the required clinical (AUTH, SAS, IPBV, NAGPB), health IT (AUTH, SAL, TMU), health economics (UPRC), technical/analysis (USE, SGUL, UNISAP, AAISCS), piloting/trials (AUTH, SAS, AAISCS, UNISAP, SGUL, IPBV, NAGPB), policy (PHE/DH, NAGPB, UPRC) and commercial (NGNC, AAISCS, SAL) experience, evaluated in two (2) LMIC countries are partners (NAGPB, IPBV).
The consortium in a nutshell:
- Management / Coordination Capacity: The co-ordinator has successfully managed 4 large project before. AUTH is ISO certified in research project management
- Lung Disease/Respiratory and Sleep study expertise: 4 well performing public clinical pulmonologist teams are engaged (AUTH, SAS, NAGPB, IPBV) and two private ones (through NGNC and AAISCS)
- Smoking Cessation & Patient/Subject reach: 4 smoking cessation units are involved (AUTH, PHE/DH, SAS, IPBV) which account for a large number of incoming patients to choose from
- Technical development/So-Lo-Mo/Usability: Capable teams that have already developed and successfully used research products guarantee the prompt production of the app (SAL, AUTH, USE)
- Analysis: All kinds of analyses are well performed through teams with excellence in their respective fields: Neuroscience (UNISAP, AAISCS, AUTH); Toxicological (AUTH, SGUL, NGNC); biochemical (SAS, AUTH, IPBV); respiratory (SAS, AUTH, NGNC, NAGPB); genetic (PHE/DH); epigenetic (AUTH); health economics (UPRC); usability and data mining experiments (AUTH, USE), social media analysis (SAL, SAS)
- Data handling and ethics: Teams at AUTH, SGUL, PHE/DH, SAS have registered/certified experts for clinical data handling, sample management, anonymisation, and ethics compliance
- Clinical Trial Registration and Open Research: The co-ordinator is experienced in registering clinical trials through the AUTH account (clinicaltrials.gov). AUTH through the link with OKFN will manage the needs for Open Research
- Health Impact/Policy formation/change: Almost all partners have access to clinicians, medical students and teachers, other Medical Institutions, Health Societies and Associations, Health Policy Makers
- Sustainability capacity: The 3 commercial partners will engage into sustainable actions beyond the project end; Academic partners (AUTH, SAS, UNISAP, SGUL) will fuse project results within the teaching and learning activities in the University curricula; AUTH will expand through the ePBLnet consortium to other education networks; NAGPB and IPBV will take over continuing and life long learning actions