Roman Torgovitsky, Ph.D. is a Harvard-trained biomedical scientist (biostatistics/epidemiology/sleep medicine), author, TEDx speaker, medical and health disruptive innovator, philanthropist, and founder of Healing War Scars, a non-profit dedicated to helping veterans and civilians to overcome war-induced mental and physical health problems.
Roman's passion for medical and health innovation was born out of a painful experience trying to find a physician who could help his ill father. He spent years searching and observing how the medical system kept sending his dad from one specialist to another, prescribing more and more medications that caused more and more side effects, making his father’s life more and more miserable.
Since that time, he has been trying to find answers to two fundamental questions: (1) Why do the medical and psychological systems fail to help so many people? (2) What can we do to help these people?
His research and practice over the past ten years led him to crucial conclusions: (1) Fundamental assumptions made about a human organism implicitly used by both medical and psychological/psychotherapy systems are wrong (2) We need to design an entirely new system based on modern scientific understanding of how human organism functions.
Based on this new vision, he has developed a new class of interventions for people suffering from many chronic conditions, including insomnia, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and many others.
Nowadays, his work is focused on the Ukrainian health crisis caused by the war. Most international and Ukrainian stakeholders assume that war-induced stress causes mental health problems and talk therapy is necessary and sufficient to help people. This implicit assumption contradicts modern research and will lead to disastrous results. Roman champions a very different perspective. Instead of relying exclusively on existing interventions that have low effectiveness, fail to help most people, and are built on false assumptions, we need to develop a research and implementation center to implement, quantify, assess, and optimize modern interventions rooted in a much more insightful model of what a human organism is.
In his public talks, Roman uses cutting-edge multidisciplinary science to dispel common myths about health and disease promoted by popular media, influencers, and key opinion leaders. He aims to expand listener knowledge to have a meaningfully positive and practical impact on one's health and well-being.
Contact: https://www.facebook.com/roman.torgovitsky
