Dawn Peleikis
Akershus University Hospital, Norway
Biography
Dawn Peleikis in 1994, started as a resident in psychiatry. She became an authorized psychiatrist in 1999. She completed her education in psychotherapy at the Norwegian Institute of Psychotherapy. In 2000-2004, she did her PhD work and her dissertation was on “Women who were sexually abused as children: Aspects and functioning after therapy”. From 2005 she worked both on clinical and research associated to Department of Research and Development, Department of Psychiatry, Akershus University Hospital. Her topics of research have been: trauma/PTSD, Schizophrenia and ADHD. She was the main supervisor in the PhD work of MD Fredriksen and is doing effectiveness study on adult ADHD-patients.