Speaker
Thomas Gargot
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Le Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours
Biography
Thomas Gargot is a child and adolescent psychiatrist working as a clinician in emergency and liaison psychiatry in Tours, France. He is interested in evidence-based psychotherapies (motivational interviewing, cognitive and behavioral therapies), the cognitive principles underlying them and the use of new technologies to better understand and disseminate them. He is the medical coordinator of a virtual reality project to treat sensory difficulties and a compressive chair project to perform deep pressure in Autism that received the James Dyson design Award 2021 in France.