Stakeholder Register

Dr Adam Halberstadt

Associated Organisation:

Area of Work:
Depression

Role:
Associate Professor, Professor

Summary:
Dr Adam Halberstadt is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine who is working alongside Dr Jason Wallach with the COMPASS team. COMPASS focuses on developing optimised psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

Dr Jason Wallach

Associated Organisation:

Area of Work:
Depression

Role:
Professor

Summary:
Dr Jason Wallach is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at USciences. Jason is leading the work of the Discovery Center with the COMPASS team. The COMPASS team focuses on developing optimised psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

Dr John D McCorvy

Associated Organisation:

Area of Work:
Depression

Role:
Associate Professor

Summary:
Dr John D McCorvy is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin. John is working with the Discovery Center under a sponsored research agreement with University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USciences) that focuses on developing optimised psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

Marie Angele Abanga

Associated Organisation:
Global Mental Health Peer Network; Hope for the Abused and Battered

Area of Work:
Depression

Role:
Advocate, Ambassador / Champion, Carer, CEO, Chairperson, Community Member, Consumer

Summary:
Marie Angele Abanga (simplified to Marie Abanga) aka MAG likes to describe herself as a “Jacqueline of several trades”. She is an everyday woman and mother with a zigzag profile. Let’s give it a try! She is an Activist, an Author, a Coach, a Consultant, a Feminist, a Lawyer, a Lecturer, a Prince 2 Project Manager, a Psychotherapist, a Philanthropist and above all a spiritualist! She just loves to sum it up by saying she is a person of passions and a tale of talents. Her life’s journey has filled 7 books already and her three musketeers keep her busy at home. MAG is 41 and lives in Douala the economic capital of Cameroon MAG is also the founder and CEO of the association Hope for the Abused and Battered, and the Country Director of the Gabriel Bebonbechem Foundation for Epilepsy & Mental wellbeing. She is also the Global Mental Health Peer Executive representing Cameroon. The plethora of life's experiences and shenanigans she has lived through and learned from in 4 decades of existence, have equipped her with such an arsenal to coach, train and motivate just any and everyone. She is so charismatic, dynamic and full of life, going by her designed mantra of 3Ds: Determination; Discipline and Dedication. These sum her and her quest to be the best version of herself and impact others positively. She attributes all her wealth of knowledge to her conscientious attendance of both informal and formal school. Let's see what she got from formal school below ... Ms Abanga had her LLB Hons from the University of Buea, a Maitrise in Public Law from the University of Yaounde II, a higher Diploma in Transport and Logistics with distinctions from ODECI Cameroon, an LLM in International Law with International Relations from the University of Kent, a P2PM Foundation and Practitioner certification from the US, and a CBT Psychotherapy Diploma with distinctions from the UK. She is an eternal student, currently doing an MSc in professional practice in Leadership Management (healthcare) as a Commonwealth Scholar with the University of Lancaster. MAG can be contacted via her website at www.marieabanga.com and on whatsapp via +237698914754 Visit her association at: https://www.hope4abusedbattered.com/

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Simon Griffin

Associated Organisation:

Area of Work:
Depression

Role:
Advocate, Consumer, Peer Worker

Summary: