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List of Confirmed Speakers
Keynote
Speaker:
Duncan
Pedersen (Canada)
Keynote Lecture :
"Rethinking
trauma as a global challenge"
Duncan Pedersen is Associate Scientific Director
(International Programs) at the Douglas Mental
Health University Institute. A physician, trained
in public health, epidemiology and medical anthropology,
has an extensive research experience in Latin
America, mostly amongst indigenous peoples and
the urban poor in countries of the Andean region,
the Amazon basin and Northeast Brazil. His current
interests include global health research and cross-cultural,
ethnographic and epidemiological research on political
violence and mental health outcomes, where the
issues of stress and trauma-related disorders,
collective suffering and coping strategies remain
his most prominent concerns. He currently holds
the position of Associate Professor at the Department
of Psychiatry, Division of Social and Transcultural
Psychiatry, McGill University, and leads the Trauma
& Global Health research network (www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth).
Dr. Pedersen has written numerous articles and
book chapters in global health; social sciences
and medicine; indigenous health; traditional medicine;
stigma, racism and social exclusion; political
violence and mental health outcomes. From 2000
to 2009, he served as Senior Editor of Medical
Anthropology for the renowned international journal
Social Science & Medicine.
Speakers:
Marylene Cloitre (USA)
Lecture:
Approach
to Childhood Abuse: It's Effects and Treatment
Associate
Director of Research at National Center of PTSD,
Palo Alto, California.
Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry
and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
at the New York University Langone Medical Center
in New York City. Previously she was a Professor
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York
University where she held an endowed chair and
she was founding director of the Institute for
Trauma and Resilience, a research and clinical
program dedicated to the study and treatment of
trauma through the life span. Her research for
the past 20 years has focused on the adverse effects
of early life trauma and the treatment of complex
forms of PTSD. Dr. Cloitre is the lead author
of the book Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse:
Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life and co-author
of Grief in Childhood: Fundamentals of Treatment
in Clinical Practice. She is currently the President
of the International Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies.
Fran
H. Norris (USA)
Lecture:
Grief in the Context of Trauma: A Study of Parents
Following the Hermosillo Day Care Fire
Fran
H. Norris is a community psychologist and a research
professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth
Medical School, where she is affiliated with the
National Center for PTSD and the National Consortium
for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
(START). She is also the Director of the NIMH-funded
National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research.
Her research interests include posttraumatic stress,
postdisaster mobilization of social support, and
community resilience.
She formerly served as the Deputy Editor of the
Journal of Traumatic Stress and is presently the
Editor of the PTSD Research Quarterly. In 2005,
she received the Robert S. Laufer Award for Outstanding
Scientific Achievement from the International
Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Eve
Carlson (USA)
Lecture:
Assessing
and Addressing Posttrauma Risk Factors to Prevent
Psychological Disorders in Recent Trauma Survivors
Eve
Carlson is a clinical psychologist and a Research
Health Science Specialist with the Dissemination
and Training Division of the National Center for
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs, VA Palo Alto Health Care
System. She is currently serving as the President
of the International Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies. Her research on the psychological impact
of traumatic experiences focuses on assessment
and she has developed measures of PTSD symptoms,
dissociation, trauma exposure, self-destructive
behavior, affective lability, and risk for posttraumatic
psychological disorder. Her research has been
funded by U.S. National Institute for Mental Health
the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs and recognized
by awards from the ISTSS and the International
Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Ruben
Lescano (Argentina)
Lecture:
Effective Interventions in traumatized populations:
Conceptualization and treatment
Lecture:
Development and growth of Childs and Adolescents
at risk in Latin America.
Psychiatrist, Ex-
Associate Professor of The University of Buenos
Aires.
Editor and author of Trauma and EMDR: a new treatment
approach. EMDRIA Latin America
Author and director of several children's collections,
addressed to the education of children and parents
about the emotions and adaptability. The stress
and trauma in children. Euromexico and Progreso
Editorial.
Member of SAPsi (Sociedad Argentina de Psychotrauma),
member of scientific committee and editor of the
Journal of Psychotrauma. Chapter President Neurobiology
of trauma and treatment.
EMDR University Trainer. EMDR Institute (USA)
Approved Consultant, EMDR International Society
(USA)
Associate Director of the Specialization Course
on Psychotrauma.
Therapy Exposure Therapy Trainer
Psycotraumatologist Certified (USA)
Director, Center for Psychotherapy with empirical
support (CIPSE)
Project manager specializing in crisis intervention
Psychotrauma and the College of Psychologists
of Guatemala.
Director of the postgraduate course in Psychotherapy
Integration.
Daniel
Mosca (Argentina)
Lecture:
Disaster Intervention in at-risk populations from
a cultural and social perspective: From Katrina
to Santa Fe
Psychiatrist.
Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Team of
SAME (Buenos Aires EMS)
Director and PI of INAPSI (National Institute
of Psychopathology).
Past President and Founder of the Argentine Society
for Psychotrauma. www.psicotrauma.org.ar
Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Center at the
Psychiatric Emergency Hospital “Torcuato
de Alvear”
Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Center at the
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Buenos
Aires.
Director of the Psychotrauma Journal for Iberoamerica.
www.psicotrauma.com.ar
Former General Secretary and current member of
the Section on Mental Health in Disasters of the
World Psychiatric Association (WPA) www.wpanet.org
Member of the Board of Directors of the International
Society for Traumatic Stress Studies www.istss.org
Executive Committee Chair of the IV World Congress
on Traumatic Stress, organized by ISTSS and its
Affiliated Organizations in Buenos Aires in June
2006.
Instructor of Psychiatric Emergencies at the SAME
(Emergency Medical System of the City of Buenos
Aires).
Eduardo
Cazabat (Argentina)
Lecture
Research: Going beyond the office’s boundaries
Workshop:
trauma, Dissociation and Sexuality
Psychologist
Master Traumatologist (Univ. of South Florida)
Scientific Research Methodology Specialist (Univ.
Nac. de Lanús)
President of the Argentine Society for Psychotrauma
International Society for the Study of Trauma
and Dissociation Board of Directors Member
Revista de Psicotrauma para Iberoamérica
Associate Director
Chair Professor of Crisis and Catastrophes Intervention
(Univ. del Salvador)
Post Graduate Professor of Trauma, Disociation
and Innovatives Apporches (Univ. Católica
de Santa Fe and la Univ. Abierta Interamericana)
TIR Trainer
Alain
Brunet (Canada)
Associate
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, McGill University
Associate Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
Director of the psychosocial research division
of the Douglas Institute.
Meaghan
O`Donnell (Australia)
Meaghan
O’Donnell is the Director of Research at
the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental
Health (ACPMH), and Associate Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.
She has published widely in the area of posttraumatic
mental health. She acts within a scientific advisory
capacity for the Australian Federal government.
She is on the board of directors of the International
Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), and
is on the editorial board for the European Journal
of Psychotraumatology.
Miranda
Olff (Holland)
Head
of the Psychological Trauma Center of the Psychiatric
Department at the University of Amsterdam.
Professor of the Expert Psychotrauma Group Arq.
Visitor Professor in Norway
Past President of the European Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies (ESTSS)
Chief Editor of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
Paula
Schnurr (USA)
Dr.
Paula Schnurr is Deputy Executive Director of
the VA National Center for Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder and Research Professor of Psychiatry
at Dartmouth Medical School.
She is Editor-in-Chief of the Clinician's Trauma
Update-Online and formerly served as Editor of
the Journal of Traumatic Stress. She is a fellow
of the American Psychological Association and
the Association for Psychological Science, and
a Past-President of the International Society
for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her research focuses
on methodological and statistical issues as well
as substantive
topics, especially PTSD treatment and on risk
and resilience factors associated with the long-term
physical and mental health outcomes of traumatic
exposure .
Ulrich
Schnyder
(Switzerland)
Psychiatrist.
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
at the Universtity of Zurich
Past President of the European Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies (ESTSS)
Past President to the International Federation
of Psychotherapy
Past President of the International Society for
Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) .
Yoshiharu
Kim
(Japan)
Lecture:
Psychological
impacts of the Japan Great Eastern Earthquake,
tsunami and
nuclear plant accident
Director
Department of Adult Mental Health, National Institute
of Mental Health
Vice Director General National Center of Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy and Research
Vice Director General National Center of Neurology
and Psychiatry
Professor Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Women’s
Medical University
Ex-officer Japanese Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies
Chairman Committee of Disaster Response, Japanese
Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Grete Dyb (Norway)
Lecture:
The value of outreach and screening of youth exposed to the terror attack in Oslo 2011
Grete Dyb is MD and PhD, a trained child and adolescent psychiatrist. Head of the child and adolescent department at the Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies in Oslo, Norway, and associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. Dr. Dyb has conducted research on child sexual abuse, on violence and adolescents and on the aftermath of disaster in children and families. Currently we are working on responding to the terror attack in Oslo and is conducting a longitudinal study on youth and parents.
Nancy Kassam-Adams (USA)
Lecture:
Reaching out to address acute child trauma: Doing secondary prevention in medical settings and on the Web
Dr. Nancy Kassam-Adams is Associate Director for Behavioral Research at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention, and Co-Director of the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research focuses on the impact of acute trauma (e.g. injuries, medical emergencies) on children and parents, practical models of screening and secondary prevention that can be integrated into busy pediatric medical settings, and innovative web-based tools for parents, children, and health care professionals. Dr. Kassam-Adams served on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies from 2004 to 2010, and was appointed to the American Psychological Associations 2008 Presidential Task Force on Child Trauma.
Dean G. Kilpatrick (USA)
Lecture:
DSM-5 PTSD Prevalence and Symptoms: Results of a US National Survey
Dean G. Kilpatrick, is a Distinguished University Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Medical University of South Carolina who has achieved international recognition for his work in the area of traumatic stress with particular emphasis on victims of sexual assault, other violent crimes, disasters, and terrorism. He and his colleagues at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center have conducted several extramurally-funded national studies of exposure to potentially traumatic events including sexual assault among U.S. adolescents and adults with particular emphasis on how such events increase risk of PTSD and related disorders. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress from 1997-2005.
Ignacio Jarero (Mexico)
Lecture:
Acute Trauma Treatment in Human Massacre, Sexual Abuse and Disaster Situations
He is Co-Founder and Executive Director of EMDR Mexico. AMAMECRISIS, International Center of Psychotraumatology. Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Mexico´s Training Site. Latin America & Caribbean Foundation for Scientific Trauma Research. He is Iberoamerica Journal of Psychotraumatology and Dissociation Founder and co-editor.
He has received the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation International Crisis Response Leadership Award; the EMDR Colombia Jaibaná Award for Humanitarian work; the Argentinean Society of Psychotrauma (ISTSS Affiliate) Psychotrauma Trajectory Award; and the EMDR-Iberoamerica Francine Shapiro Award.
He is co-author of the EMDR Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol that has been applied worldwide with natural or human provoked disaster survivors. He is EMDR Institute Senior Trainer of Trainers, Figley Institute Faculty Member. Resiliency Science Institutes International Affiliate Faculty. ICISF Trained Trainer.
Javier Zambrano Ramos (Mexico)
Lecture:
Disasters in Mexico in the las Century
Dr. Zambrano is a psychiatrist, Head of Forensic Psychiatry of the Mexican Academy of Forensic Sciences.
He works in Tlatelolco Clinic of Neuropsychiatric Specialities and the Psychiatric Hospital Dr. Samuel Ramirez Moreno from the Health Secretariat.
He is professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Academic Coordinator and head of the Section of Stress, Trauma and Disaster Intervention of the Mexican Psychiatric Association.
Elana Newman (USA)
Lecture:
Traumatic Stress and Journalism: Research and Clinical Directions
Elana Newman, R. M. McFarlin Professor of Psychology at The University of Tulsa, is Research Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (an international center) and co-director of the University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Abuse and Neglect. Newman is currently conducting studies on journalism and trauma, developmental effects of prenatal substance abuse, gene-environment interactions, child disaster mental health, substance abuse and trauma, and understanding the impact of participating in trauma-related research from the trauma survivor's perspective. Dr. Newman has conducted trainings with Sri Lankan and Haitian journalists about covering traumatic events in local contexts. Newman is a co-editor of the book entitled Toward an Integrated Approach to Trauma Focused Therapy: Placing Evidence-Based Interventions in an Expanded Psychological Context that is due out in 2012.
Stuart Turner (UK)
Lecture:
Utility of the current Complex PTSD models for refugees and torture survivors
Stuart Turner MD FRCP FRCPsych, consultant psychiatrist, is a past president of both ESTSS and ISTSS. He was a pioneer in developing trauma services in the United Kingdom, initially working with refugees and torture survivors (mid 1980s) then with disaster survivors (beginning with the Kings Cross fire in 1987) and finally, with colleagues, developing a comprehensive publically funded trauma service in London which came to provide treatment for trauma survivors of all ages. Current member of the ISTSS group of representatives to the UN and current associate editor of the new open access European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
Charles Engel(USA)
Lecture:
Implementing a Collaborative Care Approach to Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military Primary Care
Charles Engel is a Colonel of the Medical Corps, US Army, is Director of the Deployment Health Clinical Center. Director of RESPECT-Mil Implementation Team and Principal Investigator of the STEPS-UP Trial and the DESTRESS-PC and DESTRESS-T Trials.
Director, Disaster & Preventive Psychiatry Fellowship
Associate Professor & Associate Chair (Research) of the Department of Psychiatry, Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Jonathan
Bisson (UK)
Lecture:
Psychological
First Aid
Jonathan
Bisson is Director of Research and Development
for Cardiff University School of Medicine and
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. He is
also a consultant psychiatrist who developed his
interest in traumatic stress during his time in
the British Army and is an active researcher,
clinician and teacher in this area. He is Director
of the Cardiff and Vale Traumatic Stress Service
and the all Wales Veterans' Health and Wellbeing
Service. He is an ISTSS Board Member, former President
of ESTSS and co-chaired the UK's NICE Guidelines
on PTSD
Steve Lindley (USA)
Lecture:
Pharmacological Treatment of Posttraumatic Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care settings
Dr. Lindley is Director of Outpatient Mental Health for the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Lindley has been a psychiatrist with VA Palo Alto for 16 years. He directs the Primary Care/Mental Health Integration program which provides co-located, same-day access to mental health care in six primary care clinics. He is board-certified in psychosomatic medicine, overseeing outpatient psychiatric consultative services to primary care physicians. As a psychiatrist with doctoral training in pharmacology and neuroscience, Dr. Lindley has considerable expertise relating to the biopsychosocial aspects of mental disorders, including PTSD. His research interests include developing methods to monitor and improve the efficacy and reduce the adverse effects of treatments for PTSD.
Harold Kudler (USA)
Lecture:
Three Key Conflicts in Understanding, Studying and Treating Psychological Trauma
Dr. Kudler trained at Yale and is Associate Clinical Professor at Duke. He has received teaching awards from the Duke Department of Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Kudler coordinated mental health services for a three state region of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and from 2000 through 2005 co-chaired VA’s Special Committee on PTSD which reports to Congress. He founded the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies’ (ISTSS) PTSD Practice Guidelines taskforce and serves on the ISTSS Board of Directors. He co-led development of the joint VA/Department of Defense guideline for the management of posttraumatic stress and serves as advisor to Sesame Street’s Talk Listen Connect series for military families. Since 2006, he has co-led the North Carolina Governor’s Focus on Returning Military Members and their Families. Dr. Kudler is Associate Director of the VA's Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) for Deployment Mental Health and Medical Lead for the VISN 6 Rural Health Initiative.
Maria Kriwet (Argentina)
Lecture:
PTSD and Substance Abuse
Psychologist
Certified Traumatologist (Univ. of South Florida)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Argentine Society for Psychotrauma
Associate Professor of Trauma, Disociation
and Innovatives Apporches (Univ. Católica
de Santa Fe and Univ del Salvador)
