Rate My Professor Margarita Bela

Margarita Bela serves as the Personal Assistant to the Head of Department in the Department of Addictions within the School of Academic Psychiatry at King’s College London. The Department of Addictions, also known as the National Addiction Centre, is part of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and focuses on research into the prevention and treatment of substance misuse, including clinical trials of new therapies, studies on the genetic and biological basis of addictive behaviour, and contributions to national and international efforts in addictions research.

Margarita Bela has provided essential administrative support to the department's research activities. She has been acknowledged in several peer-reviewed publications for her contributions, including assisting with the preparation of manuscript references for the paper 'Naloxone—does over-antagonism matter? Evidence of iatrogenic clinical detoxification' published in Addiction in 2015. Additional thanks have been extended to her for support in the 2022 BMJ Open Quality article 'Golden opportunity for intervention? Identifying vitamin D deficiency in a South London Emergency Department quality improvement project' and the 2022 European Addiction Research paper 'Take-Home Naloxone and the Prevention of Deaths from Heroin Overdose: Pursuing Strong Science, Fuller Understanding, Greater Impact'. Her role supports the Head of Department and facilitates the operations of one of Europe's most productive addictions research groups.