Yerbol Nurkatov

Yerbol Nurkatov

Assistant Professor

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After graduating from the medical faculty of the Almaty State Medical Institute in 1995, Yerbol Nurkatov completed an internship in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Medical Psychology of the Kazakh State Medical University.

       In 2000 he completed his postgraduate studies in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Narcology of the Almaty State Institute for Advanced Medical Studies. In 2003 he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Since 2000, he worked as a senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Medical Psychology of the Kazakh State Medical University named after S.D. Asfendiyarov. From 2001 to 2007 he was a professor’s assistant at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Narcology of the Almaty State Institute for Advanced Training of Doctors. From 2006 to 2007 he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Kazakh National University.   

      In 2006-2007 he completed a fellowship program under the Open Society Institute  at Columbia University (New York, USA) on the topic "Social policy in the field of mental health." From 2007 to 2020, he worked as the director of the Mental Health Medical Center in Astana. During his work, he was involved in the transition of the center to new principles of managing a state enterprise, the introduction of modern technologies for psychosocial assistance to mentally ill patients, the opening of sheltered workshops for people with mental disorders, and the development of suicidological and crisis services in Astana city. In 2012, he accomplished a one-year internship under the Bolashak program at the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK) on the topic “Public policy in the field of mental health in Great Britain”. In 2017 he received a master's degree in management from the University of Turan-Astana. 

    From 2021 Dr. Yerbol Nurkatov served as an assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the Astana Medical University. Since April of 2018, he joined the School of Medicine at Nazarbayev University as an Assistant Professor of Practice.

Research interests

Social and transcultural psychiatry, psychosocial therapy and rehabilitation program of mentally ill patients, quality of life and social functioning of patient with schizophrenia

Publications

  1. Modern approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of mixed anxiety-depressive disorders in primary health care | International Professional Journal Medicine/ https://medjournal.kz/index.php/journal/issue/view/5, (N Raspopova, M. Dzhamantayeva, Y.Nurkatov, L. Uteniyazova, G. Idenova, Y. Kotsaba, G.Kozhakhmetova).
  2. Projecting foreign experience in suicide prevention in Kazakhstan.Collection of materials of the 1st International Conference “Strengthening the mental health of children and adolescents” (jointly with Mironova E.K.), Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 19-20, 2018, pp. 67-71
  3. Mental health care workshops. Kazakh National Medical University’s Bulletin, No. 2, 2019. pp. 74-78 (jointly with Abishev A.E., Usatayeva G.M.)

Education/Academic qualification

Management, Economics and Business, Master's degree, «Turan-Astana» University

Award Date: Jun 24 2017

Psychiatry, Medicine, Candidate degree, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Award Date: Jan 23 2004

Psychiatry, Postgraduate studies, Kazakh Medical University of Continuing Education

Award Date: Nov 1 2000

Psychiatry, Clinical residency at Psychiatry Department, Kazakh National Medical University

Award Date: Sept 1 1997

Medicine, Medical doctor, Kazakh National Medical University

Award Date: Jun 30 1995

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