Speaker Information

Simon Baron-Cohen,Cohen PhD, M. Phil.
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Director, Autism Research Centre; Professor in Developmental Psychopathology, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University; Professor of Developmental Psychopathology; Fellow, Trinity College



Anne E. Becker MD, PhD, SCM
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Vice Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Social Sciences MD-PhD Program and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Eating Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital



Robert M. Bilder, PhD, ABPP-CN
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Director, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity and Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; Chief of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital; Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine; and Professor of Psychology, UCLA College of Letters and Science



James Boehnlein, MD
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Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Medical Student Education in Psychiatry; Staff psychiatrist, Intercultural Psychiatric Program, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine; Associate Director for Education, Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Northwest Network



Carole Browner, PhD, MPH
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Professor in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Women's Studies at UCLA; Member, FPR Advisory Board



Tyrone D. Cannon, PhD
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Staglin Family Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Director, Staglin Music Festival Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Associate Director, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA



Marie-Françoise S. Chesselet, MD, PhD
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Chair of the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology; Director of the APDA UCLA Advanced Center for Parkinson Disease Research, UCLA Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research and the UCLA Center for Gene Environment Parkinson Disease; Member, FPR Advisory Board



Eric Courchesne, PhD
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Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego



Bruce Cuthbert, PhD
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Director, Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development (DATR), National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health



Byron Good PhD
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Professor of Medical Anthropology; Co-Director, NIMH Postdoctoral Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services Research, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School



Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, PhD
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Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; co-director Fogarty Fellow Training Program in Culture and Psychiatry; faculty chair, Southeast Asian faculty group, Harvard University Asia Center; co-chair, fellow and faculty seminar in Culture and Psychiatry (Friday AM seminar); co-chair Program in Global Mental Health; PI: Research Project on Culture and Diversity in American Health Care; co-PI: Psychosocial Medical Program for High Conflict Areas in Aceh, Indonesia; current editorial board member for Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and former co-editor in chief (1986-2004); current editorial advisory board member, Social Science and Medicine; board member for Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2005-2008); visiting professor at University of Gadjah Mada, Center for Bioethics, Social Medicine and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Psychology



R. Richard Grinker, PhD
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Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences, Editor of Anthropological Quarterly; Director, The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research



Devon Hinton, MD, PhD
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Southeast Asian Clinic, Arbour Counseling Center, Lowell, Massachusetts



Douglas Hollan, PhD
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Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles; Instructor at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute; and President-Elect of the Society for Psychological Anthropology; Member, FPR Board of Directors and Advisory Board



Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine



Eric R. Kandel, MD
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University Professor; Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute



J. David Kinzie, MD
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University



Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, F.R.C.P.C.
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James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University; Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry; Director, Culture & Mental Health Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal



Peter Kramer, MD
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Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University



Robert Lemelson, PhD
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President, FPR; Research Anthropologist, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and the Center for Culture and Health; Lecturer, Departments of Anthropology and Psychology



Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD
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Director of the NYS Cultural Competence Center of Excellence and the Hispanic Treatment Program at New York State Psychiatric Institute; Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University; Lecturer on Social Medicine at Harvard University; Chair of the Cultural Psychiatry Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, a member of the Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group for DSM-V



Steven R. López, PhD
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Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California; Member, FPR Advisory Board



Tanya Luhrmann, PhD
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University



Emily Martin, PhD
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Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, New York University



Emeran A. Mayer, MD
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Professor, Depts. Of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Executive Director, Center for Neurobiology of Stress; Co-Director, CURE DDRC Division of Digestive Diseases, University of California, Los Angeles



Elinor Ochs, PhD
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Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, The Center on the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF), UCLA



Paul H. Patterson, PhD
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Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology



Mary L. Phillips, MD
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Professor in Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science; Director of the Clinical and Translational Affective Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine



Elyn R. Saks, JD
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Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine



Olga Solomon, PhD
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Research Assistant Professor, USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California



Moshe Szyf, PhD
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Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University




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