Elena Ivleva

Elena I. Ivleva, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Director of the Early Psychosis Clinical and Research (HOPE, Healing Over Psychosis Early) Program at the Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas. In her clinical practice and research, Dr. Ivleva specializes in schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. She is the founder and director of UT Southwestern Early Psychosis Clinical and Research (HOPE) Program. The Program offers a variety of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC)-based services, including psychopharmacological treatment, individual and group psychotherapy, family psychoeducation, cognitive remediation, and vocational rehabilitation. Dr. Ivleva’s research lab focuses on understanding the lifespan neurobiology of schizophrenia, i.e., effects of the illness course and aging. The overarching goals of her research are to: 1) define cognitive and brain-based biomarkers (captured with multimodal brain MRI) associated with the patterns of the schizophrenia course and aging, and 2) inform precision interventions for the specific disease stages: early psychosis, mid-course, and late-life schizophrenia. Dr. Ivleva’s research has been supported by the National Institution of Mental Health, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation/NARSAD, American Psychiatric Association as well as other research foundations. Dr. Ivleva has presented her research work nationally and internationally, and authored over 90 publications.