Otiashvili

David

David Otiashvili, MD, PhD is a Director of the Addiction Research Centre-Alternative Georgia and Associate Professor of Healthcare at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. David graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University and received qualification of Psychiatrist. He spent ten years in clinical work treating patients with substance use disorders. As a NIDA Hubert Humphrey Fellow he studied substance abuse research at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He received PhD in Health Psychology from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. For last decade his major focus has been addiction research and education programs in addiction science.