Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota, Minnesota
Dr Ekhtiari is trained as a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specialized in cognitive neuroscience and interventional psychiatry. Dr. Ekhtiari’s lab at Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) and Medical Discovery Team on Addiction (MDTA) is focused to reshape the future of treatments for psychiatric disorders with brain stimulation and cognitive technologies informed by individualized brain imaging. Dr. Ekhtiari is the director of the international network of neuroimaging neuromodulation (INNN). INNN with over 50 lab members promotes international collaborations to increase research quality and implementation of non-invasive brain stimulation technologies in combination with neuroimaging (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-021-00664-5). Dr Ekhtiari serves as the board member and co-chair of the neuroscience section at the International Society for Addiction Medicine (ISAM) which is the largest international organization in the field of addiction treatment with over 15,000 members globally (https://isamweb.org/interest-groups/). Dr Ekhtiari also co-direct the International Network of Transcranial-stimulation for Addiction Medicine (INTAM) (https://med.umn.edu/addiction/network) and Addiction Cue Reactivity branch of ENIGMA Addiction Work Group (ENIGMA ACRI) (https://med.umn.edu/addiction/network/acrin)(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-021-00649-4).
Addiction Medicine in Carceral Settings across the Globe
Saturday, April 6, 2024
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
