Confirmed Speakers and Discussants

Carlos D. Bustamante PhD, Department of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine
John Cacioppo PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
John Capitanio PhD, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
Edith Chen PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Joan Chiao PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Steve Cole PhD, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UCLA
Mirella Dapretto PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Greg Downey PhD, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
Clarence Gravlee PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Shihui Han PhD, Director, Department of Psychology, Peking University
Steven J. Heine PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Douglas Hollan PhD, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Marco Iacoboni MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang EdD, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
Heejung Kim PhD, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCSB
Laurence J. Kirmayer MD, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Shinobu Kitayama PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Brandon Kohrt MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center
Robert Lemelson PhD, Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Daniel Lende PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Elizabeth Reynolds Losin, PhD, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tanya Luhrmann PhD, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Georg Northoff MD, PhD, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research
John Novembre PhD, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Denise Park PhD, Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas (Dallas)
Paul Plotsky PhD, GlaxoSmithKline Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University
Beate Ritz MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA
Carol Ryff PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephen Suomi PhD, Section on Comparative Behavioral Genetics, NICHD
Thomas Weisner, PhD, Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Carol Worthman PhD, Department of Anthropology, Emory University


The 2012 Conference