Organisation
The CoCA project is governed by the following consortium/decision-making bodies. Please click on each body for more details:
Coordinator and Project Office

PROJECT COORDINATOR
The Coordinator of CoCA is Prof. Dr. Andreas Reif, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt in Germany.
As the project coordinator he is the legal entity acting as the intermediary between the European Commission and the consortium as well as the supervisor of the overall progress of the project.

Prof. Andreas Reif
University Hospital of Frankfurt (GUF)
Phone:+49 (0)69 6301 5222
Fax:+49 (0)69 6301 3839
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO)
The project management office is located both at concentris in Fürstenfeldbruck and with the Coordinator in Frankfurt. While the Coordinator is mainly dealing with the scientific management, concentris is taking care of the administrative, financial and contractual management and other organisational tasks.
The PMO is the central node of communication for CoCA and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the project. It acts as a help-desk for all beneficiaries and supports the Coordinator, the General Assembly and the Steering Committee in fulfilling their tasks and the execution of decisions.
The project manager at concentris for CoCA is Dr. Mary Gazea.

Dr. Mary Gazea
concentris research management GmbH
Project manager CoCA
Phone:+49 8141 6252 8578
Fax:+49 8141 6252 8577
Steering Committee (SC)

- Catharina Hartman, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
- Bru Cormand, Professor, Academic Secretary of the Dept. of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Johannes Thome, Professor, Chair of Dept. of the Clinic and Policlinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Rostock, Germany
- Andreas Reif, Professor, Chair of Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
- Ulrich Ebner-Priemer, Professor, Chair of Applied Psychology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Christine Freitag, Professor, Chair of Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
- Jan Haavik, Professor, Head of Research Centre, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway
- Stephen Faraone, Professor, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, US
- Barbara Franke, Professor, Head of the Research lab for Multifactorial Diseases at the department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands
- Jonna Kuntsi, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
- concentris representative: Mary Gazea, Dr., concentris research management, Germany
General Assembly (GA)

INTERNAL ETHICS BOARD (IEB)

- Andreas Reif , Professor, Chair of Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
- Christine Freitag, Professor, Chair of Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
- Jan Buitelaar, Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Radbound University Medical Center, Netherlands
- Johannes Thome, Professor, Chair of Dept. of the Clinic and Policlinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Rostock, Germany
- Jonna Kuntsi, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
- Jaanus Harro, Professor, Head of Division of Neuropsychopharmacology, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Anders Børglum, Professor, Director of Centre for Integrative Sequencing, Aarhus University

Independent Ethics Advisor Michael Kölch
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Scientific and Ethical Advisory Board (SEAB)

The SEAB is a consultative body, which is formed to ensure and improve the scientific performance and the quality of results of CoCA. The members of the SEAB will be invited to the annual GA meetings in order to monitor the progress of work, to assess the scientific quality and to give feed-back to the Consortium members. The SEAB will also consider and mention any ethical issues which might require (stronger) attention in their feed-back. It has an independent advisory position that includes possible reporting of critical issues the EC, so that safeguarding of the project is ensured.

Prof. Johannes Hebebrand
Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Prof. Peter McGuffin
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London, UK
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Prof. James Swanson
Director of the Child Development Center, Pediatrics School of Medicine University of California, USA
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Prof. Luis Rohde
President World Federation of AHDH, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grando do Sul, Brazil
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Andrea Bilbow
President ADHD Europe (patient organization) UK
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Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC)


Michael Rösler
Professor,Director of the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Saarland, Germany
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Wolfgang Retz
Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of Mainz, Germany
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Peter Schlattmann
Professor, Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, University of Jena, Germany
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Impact Board (IB)

The Impact Board is responsible for designing a structured communication plan for dissemination and the exploitation of program results and will monitor the steps being taken. Together with the Project Management Office it will oversee the comprehensive internal and external dissemination of project results and knowledge.
- Barbara Franke, Professor, Head of the Researchlab for Multifactorial Diseases at the department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands
- Andreas Reif, Professor, Chair of Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
- Catharina Hartman, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
- Ulrich Ebner-Priemer, Professor, Chair of Applied Psychology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Stephen Faraone, Professor, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Christine Freitag, Professor, Chair of Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
- Jan Haavik, Professor, Head of Research Centre, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway
- Philip Asherson, Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
- Christoph Bischoff-Everding, Dr, CEO, HGC GesundheitsColsult GmbH, Germany
- Junior’s representative: Adrian Muntaner, Dr., Faculty of Sport Sciences and Research Institute of Sports and Health, University of Granada, Spain
- Junior’s representative: Anna Rommel, Dr., Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
- concentris representative: Mary Gazea, Dr., concentris research management, Germany

External member: Andrea Bilbow
President ADHD Europe (patient organization) UK
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