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Dr Fields is an associate research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr Stea is a psychiatrist in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and is affiliated with Western State Hospital-Hopkinsville.
Dr Pereira-Sanchezis a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist from Spain, a New Yorker since 2019, and a cradle Catholic with active involvement in the life and ministries of his parish in Washington Heights, Manhattan, where he met his wife and had his firstborn. He is dedicated to local and global mental health, with leading involvement in pioneering and awarded efforts to improve mental health especially for the underserved. He is currently a global mental health and implementation science research fellow at Columbia University, where he is coleading multilateral partnerships between mental health, academic, government, and nonprofit sectors with local Catholic churches in underserved Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City, including his parish. He is also co-leading a new mental health ministry at his parish and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministries.
Dr Miller is a staff psychiatrist at Elwyn Adult Behavioral Health in Cranston, Rhode Island. He has over 16 years of experience in the medical field and specializes in treating serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. His work centers on a family-oriented, holistic treatment approach.
Dr Childress is president of the Center for Psychiatry and Behavior Medicine, Inc, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine and Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr Volle is an assistant professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the section chief of geriatric psychiatry at Dartmouth Health.
Mr Maristany is a fourth-year medical student at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL.
Dr Fickey is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and works as a forensic psychiatric consultant. She is also the founder of Embracing Life Wellness Center.
Dr Fung is the clinical director of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He is also professor and director of Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
Ms Nousari is a fourth-year medical student at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL.
Dr Ross is a forensic and reproductive psychiatrist who provides evaluations and consultation for issues in the interface of psychiatry and the law.
Dr Parkerson is a psychiatry resident at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, NY.
Mr Parker is an architect and dedicated Mental and Behavioral Health Planner at Stantec.
Dr Mateka is the medical director of psychiatry for Inspira Health and serves as cochair of psychiatry. He is the president of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association (NJPA) and serves on the Inpatient/Partial Hospitalization/Residential Committee and Public Resources Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Mateka is also psychiatrist adviser for PerformCare, where he works closely with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families and Children’s System of Care.
Dr Swider is a psychiatrist in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr Adereti is a PGY-3 resident in psychiatry at the University of Louisville, KY.
Dr Ramakrishnan specializes in spiritual psychiatry and is currently completing his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Tower Health, Drexel University program. He holds a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard Divinity School, where he developed an inter-religious theological framework of healing, and pursued contemplative neuroscience research in the Harvard Psychiatry Department. To refine his theoretical "Mindfulness-to-Transcendence" framework, which underpins the neuroscientific basis of chaplains' Empathic Listening care, he joined the PhD program at UC Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. Dr Ramakrishnan is dedicated to establishing evidence-based Spiritual Psychiatry programs. He advocates for combining rigorous theological education with contemplative psychiatric approaches, believing this is essential for a contemporary social psychiatry that can address societal conflicts and fulfill the word's true meaning: "Healer of the Soul.
Dr Thordarson is a psychologist and manager of the Outpatient Acute Mental Health Service at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in California.
Dr Tastenhoye is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis.
Dr Chiew is an associate professor of Psychology at the University of Denver.
Dr Pierre is a health sciences clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF and the unit chief of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital Adult Inpatient Unit.
Dr Hirshbein is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr Kartiko is a third-year psychiatry resident at Creighton University.
Dr Abi-Dargham is a distinguished professor and the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Stony Brook University in New York, the Lourie Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, SUNY distinguished professor, director of the Multi-Modal Translational Imaging Lab, associate dean and associate vice president of Clinical and Translational Science, and principal investigator at Long Island Network for Clinical and Translational Science.
