Shelly Iskander

Shelly is a staff member of Psychiatric Department, Medical Faculty, Padjadjaran University/ Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia. She was introduced to the drug addiction field in 2003 when she was sent by National Narcotic Board and Health Research Unit Padjadjaran University to join “Drug Surveillance & Social Research” in Melbourne, Australia for 3 months. After that, as the implementation of the theory, she conducted multi center research about drug use & policy among senior high school students in 6 cities in Indonesia, supported by National Narcotics Board.
She also involved as co-trainer and trainer in house training in some cities in Indonesia, in collaboration with IASTP (Indonesian Australian Specialized Training Program), National Narcotics Board, Health Department, Social Department, Padjadjaran University, and Hasan Sadikin Hospital.
Since 2006, when the first methadone clinic opened in Bandung, she worked there as a general practitioner until now. Start from March 2007, she joins in project named IMPACT (Integrated Management for Prevention And Care & Treatment of HIV/AIDS) (www.impactbandung.org). This project is collaboration between 4 universities (Radboud University, Maastricht University, Antwerpen University, and Padjadjaran University). In line with this project, she also proceeds to continue her PhD in combination with a resident training program in psychiatric department. Under supervision of Prof Cor de Jong (professor in addiction and addiction care) and Prof Andre van der Ven (associated professor in tropical medicine), she studies about “Injecting Drug Users and Preventing Transmission of Viral Blood-borne Infections: A BioPsychoSocial Approach.”