Lab Members- Alumni – Integrative Pain Laboratory

Alumni Lab Members

Jasmin Kroll – Post-doctoral Fellow in Public Health

The main focus of Jasmin’s clinical and research experience has been on psychiatric disorders with an emphasis on psychosis and personality disorders. She also spent time teaching on the subjects of applied neuroscience and psychiatric illness. Jasmin’s PhD focussed on delineating a cognitive and psychiatric profile of individuals born very preterm. Here, she aimed to identify neonatal and neurocognitive biomarkers for psychiatric outcomes with an emphasis on psychosis. She was also involved in a prospective study of children born preterm, utilising neuroimaging, neuropsychology and clinical assessments to identify typical and atypical behavioural trajectories

Jasmin joined the Integrative Pain Laboratory in January 2021; she is in charge of the TrainPain project. This project aims to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of a gamified sensory perceptual training programme for patients with fibromyalgia. Jasmin will oversee all aspects of this project including the study design, ethical process, assessments and data analysis.

Email: Jasmin.kroll@kcl.ac.uk

Sewar Kahtib – Master student in Public Health, Health Administration track (MHA)

Sewar completed her Bachelor’s in Occupational Therapy Sciences at the University of Haifa.

Works as the director of the occupational therapy service at a geriatric nursing hospital and is a researcher in the iPainLab with Dr. Pavel Goldstein. Her master’s research focuses on investigating the effect of the multisensory environment and the social support, through Snoezelen room therapy on the general physical and emotional health and life satisfaction, upon the elderly patients living in nursing homes, in order to maximize the quality of life and mental well-being of the adult population living in nursing homes.

In addition to being fascinated by the study of the effects of sensory stimulation on general health and wellbeing, she really enjoys traveling around the world, surfing, cooking, and spending quality time with her family and friends.

Email: skhate13@campus.haifa.ac.il

Lisa KALY– Master student in Public Health (MPH), Biostatistics track

Lisa is a Rheumatologist, affiliated to the Israeli Rheumatology Society and to Technion Rappaport Faculty of medicine. She works at Bnai Zion Medical Center as a senior Rheumatologist and at Maccabi health care. Part of her daily practice is to manage chronic pain and fibromyalgia. She also specialized in musculoskeletal ultrasound, a wonderful tool that helps her to distinguish organic pathologies from chronic pain syndrome. She is actually studying for a master degree in Public Health (Biostatistics track) in the University of Haifa.

She joined the Interactive Pain Laboratory in January 2021 as a medical consultant, willing to improve the diagnostic accuracy in fibromyalgia as well as lift up the management of this chronic disorder.

Email: lisakaly@yahoo.fr

Dmitry Scherbakov - Post-doctoral Fellow in Public Health

Dmitry has completed his PhD in Media Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities. In his PhD work he applied traditional and computer based methods to analysis of texts. He was able to show that media reputation of the left-wing writer N.G. Chernyshevsky is cyclic in nature as manifested in different types of media from old journals to internet discussion boards.

He was working for 10+ years in software industry parallel to his research and has gained expertise in RStudio data science platform, as well as in making powerful demos of the solutions he was in charge of.

Dmitry’s role in the Integrative Pain Laboratory (iPainlab) will be to conduct machine learning analysis of texts and numerical data coming from social media of chronic pain patients, surveys and digital platforms. The resulting data models will be used to improve existing diagnostic tools available to doctors. He will also work on the creation of therapeutic chat-bot which will help patients assess and treat their pain.

Email: dshcherba@staff.haifa.ac.il