Dr. Kathy sexton-Radek has received her Doctorate of Philosophy degree from Illinois institute of Technology in 1989 and interned at Rush Medical University 1988-1989 in Sleep Medicine, Behavioural Medicine, Geriatric Psychology and Health Psychology rotations. Currently, she is working as Professor in Elmhurst College, Psychology Department since 1988. She received her board certification in Behavioural sleep Medicine. She completed a two year post- Doctorate Certificate program in Clinical Psychopharmacology which included a year long preceptor ship with psychiatry and pulmonary medicine rotation.

Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology, Sleep quality in young adults, Factors particular to cognitive functioning, personality style, and health practices have been examined with regard to sleep quality in emerging young adults aged 18-25 years old, Examination of the utility of conflict-resolution programming in school settings.

Paul Lysaker is a clinical psychologist at the Roudebush VA Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is an author on over 250 peer reviewed publications

His research interests include recovery and integrative psychotherapy for persons with psychotic disorders.

Dr Howland is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and an Attending Psychiatrist in the Mood Disorders Treatment and Research Program at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and completed his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr Howland is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. His clinical and research interests have included the use of psychopharmacology psychotherapy neurostimulation therapies and other novel therapies in the treatment of mood disorders with a particular emphasis on chronic and treatment resistant forms of depression. Dr Howland is Editor-in-Chief for the peer reviewed journal Patient Related Outcome Measures Dove Medical Press is Psychopharmacology Section Editor for the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services and serves on the Editorial Board of the journals Core Evidence and Frontiers in Affective Disorders. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 peerreviewed articles book chapters and other publications and is currently an investigator in a number of funded clinical research studies.

Mood disorders; Anxiety disorders; Chronic depression; Treatment resistant depression; Psychopharmacology; Psychotherapy; Neurostimulation therapies (deep brain stimulation, cortical brain stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation).

Jose Javier Lopez-Goni is a clinical psychologist specialized in addictive behaviors and in family violence. He received his BA in psychology from the Open University (UNED) of Spain in 1997 and his PhD in psychology from the Public University of Navarre (Spain) in 2005. He has worked during 19 years for the program of addiction treatment "Proyecto Hombre de Navarra" in Pamplona (Spain). Currently, he works as a professor of Psychology at the Public University of Navarre and he is a member of “Clinical Psychology and Psychopatology” research team. He has published several articles, mostly in the areas of addictive behaviors and family violence. He has been rewarded for his research in programs evaluation.

 

Psychopatology
Addictions
Family violence
Personality disorders
Comorbidity
Treatment
Programs Evaluation
 

Prof. Dr. med. Florian Daniel Zepf is Junior professor for Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry and Neurology at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at RWTH Aachen University, and at the Jülich Research Center (Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, JARA Translational Brain Medicine). He is the winner of the prestigious „Young Minds in Psychiatry Award“ donated by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE) and AstraZeneca. Apart from this he also is the recipient of a number of other awards, among these the Donald J. Cohen Fellowship Award donated by the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP, 2006) and the International Travel Fellowship Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP, 64th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, 2009). He is the member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Sciences.

Functional MRI imaging, Functional Neurochemistry, Neurofeedback Neurobiology of aggressive behavior, Affective disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder

Ulrich Voderholzer currently working as Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Clinic Freiburg University. He has authored 110 original articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 250 other articles. He is an editor of 5 books.

Obsessive compulsive disorders, Psychotherapy research, Brain imaging, Insomnia, Affective disorders, Narcolepsy, Sleep in humans

Marta Hauser is a clinical psychologist from Berlin, Germany. She graduated from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 2006 (MS) and received her PhD from the Charite University Medical Center Berlin, in 2011. Her professional activities have focused on the early identification and prevention of psychosis. From 2003 to 2009, she worked as a clinical psychologist at the Early Recognition and Intervention Center for Beginning Psychoses (FETZ program), a dedicated research program, in Berlin, Germany. Since 2009, she has been working with Dr.Christoph Correll at The Zucker Hillside Hospital, New York, continuing her research activities in the area of early recognition and prevention of psychosis and broadening them to include the prodrome preceding syndromal bipolar disorder. Currently, she is mostly involved in co-leading a large scale, single site study, aiming to characterize the bipolar and psychotic prodrome with a variety of biological and clinical measures.

 

Early identification and prevention of psychosis and bipolar disorder, Attitudes of patients and relatives towards illness and treatment, Psychoeducation, Passivity phenomena in schizophrenia and he putative prodrome.

 

Moustafa Reyad Ibrabim is a Psychiatry Resident at Queen’s University in Canada. After being assessed in Psychiatry through the Centre for the Evaluation of Health Professionals Educated Abroad in Toronto, Ontario in 2008 / 2009. He served as a General Practitioner in the Egyptian rural sector and in Egyptian Army.

His research interest focus on psychiatric disorders and psychiatric practice, and the psycho-social aspect of psychiatric disorders

Dr Mark Agius has received his MD in University of Malta in 1976. Currently, he is working as an Associate Specialist at South Essex Partnership Trust and a Visiting Research Associate in The Department of Psychiatry University of Cambridge. He is serving as an editorial member of Psychiatria Danubina. He has authored 63 research articles in Pubmed and a number of /book chapters. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has been a member of the General Psychiatry Faculty Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
 

Dr Mark Agius′s main research interests are development of services for important mental illnesses, including depression, OCD, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Schizophreina, especially early intervention.

Dr. Nick Bendit is a staff specialist psychiatrist working at the Centre for Psychotherapy Newcastle Australia an out patient public psychotherapy unit offering longterm psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder and eating disorders. He treats patients supervises and teaches in the Conversational Model and also treats patients with DBT. The Centre for Psychotherapy is currently conducting a randomized controlled trial comparing the outcome for patients with borderline personality disorder treated with either DBT or the Conversational Model.

He has an interest in the origin of chronic suicidal thoughts, particularly with regard to implicit memory and early developmental experiences.

"Alistair D. Sweet MA (PsyA), MSSc, Dip.Couns (PsyD), MBACP is a Senior Psychotherapist and Head of Clinical Services with Addiction NI (Previously Northern Ireland Community Addiction Service/ NICAS) and a Lecturer and Clinical Supervisor in the School of Psychology, Queen’s University, Belfast. Mr Sweet joined NICAS in 2001, as a Senior Therapist and became Head of Clinical Services in 2009. Mr Sweet holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychoanalytic Studies (QUB), a Master of Social Science degree with distinction in Criminology (QUB) and a Diploma in Psychodynamic Therapeutic Counselling. Mr Sweet has also undertaken further psychotherapeutic trainings with specialisms in the addictions, dual diagnosis mental health issues and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He is, as a Psychotherapist, a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Mr Sweet’s published work has appeared internationally in a range of peer reviewed journals including The British Journal of Psychotherapy, The International Forum of Psychoanalysis and The American Journal of Psychotherapy. 

 

Assessment of personality and psychological defence mechanisms, Disturbances of attachment, Psychotherapy for the addictions, The history and clinical application of object relations theory in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
 

Gallus Bischof PhD works as psychologist and senior researcher at the University of Luebeck, Dpt Of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Germany where he currently works as principal investigator in an RCT on the Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training for Alcohol Use Disorders. He has received his PhD at the University of Greifswald in 2004. In addition he has been trained as a behaviour therapist at the Institute for Therapy Research in Kiel. He is member of the Editorial Board of the German Journal Addiction Therapy “Suchttherapie” member of the executive committee of the German Society for Addiction Psychology “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Suchtpsychologie” member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers MINT and member of the International Network of Brief Interventions for Alcohol Problems INEBRIA Gallus Bischof has published over 80 articles in peerreviewed Journals and 25 book chapters. He has served as a reviewer for various leading Journals in the field of Addiction and Public Health.

Brief Interventions for health risk behaviors, Community Reinforcement, Addiction Psychology, Mental Health, Personality Disorders, Dialectical behavioral therapy epidemiology

Dr. Lenz is psychiatric resident and clinical researcher in the field of neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. He studied medicine in Erlangen (Germany), Québec (Canada), Basel and Berne (Switzerland) and completed his MD in 2007. For his scientific work, he received awards from the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2005), the European Research Advisory Board (2007) and the European Societies for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (2009).



 

His primary research interest focuses on biological mechanisms underlying psychiatric diseases, in particular addictive behaviors. This includes molecular research and human studies. He investigates the role of psychopharmacology, genetics, epigenetics and proteomics on pathophysiology of dependence syndromes.
 

Dr. Andreas Dinkel is a senior psychologist at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany. He is a licensed psychotherapist and leader of the consultation / liaison service of the department. He finished his studies in psychology and sociology in 1998 (Universität Osnabrück, Germany) and received his doctoral degree (D.Sc.) in psychology in 2006 (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany).
 

Dr. Andreas Dinkel′s research focuses on psychosocial issues in chronic illness, with a special interest in psycho-oncology, psychosomatic symptoms and mental disorders, psychological assessment, and family issues in health and disease.
 

Prof Dr Elmar Brähler has received his Degree in Mathematics at Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany in 1970, PhD in Human Biology (Dr. rer. biol. hum.) in 1976 and Postdoctoral lecture qualification in Medical Psychology in 1980. Since 1994, he is Head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig in Germany. Since 2009, he is also Head of the Department of Mental Health at the University Clinic of Leipzig. Since 2010 Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Leipzig and Member of the German Data Forum. Member of the Advisory Board of the German Research Foundation. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, Diagnostica or Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie and Psychotherapie.

Psychooncology, Gender specific, Aspects of health and disease, Aging, Psychodiagnostics.

Dr. Peter Schönknecht has received his PhD (Habilitation) at Heidelberg University during the period of 1998-2007. Currently, he is working as Senior Consultant and Vice Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Leipzig (Saxony). He is heading the out-patient dept. of affective disorders and the research group “Subcortical dysfunction in psychiatric disorders” He is serving as an associated editor of reputed journals like The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry. He has authored more than 100 research articles and books.

Neurobiology of Affective disorders, Mild cognitive impairment, Psychopathology and Forensic psychiatry, Philosophy of psychiatry

Christine Reynaert currently working as a Head of Department of Psychosomatic in Cliniques Universitaires. She served as a professor in the Department of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland, from May to July 1985. In 1993, she worked as Professor of Clinical. In 1996, she worked as a Lecturer Academic in part time and as a Clinical Lecturer.

Psychosomatic

Francesc Colom is the Head of the Psychoeducation and Psychological Treatments Area at the Barcelona Bipolar Disorders Program IDIBAPS Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona The Barcelona Psychoeducation Program designed by Dr. Colom and coworkers is nowadays the strongest evidencebased psychoeducational program for bipolar patients His book “Psychoeducation Manual for Bipolar Disorder” has been published in several languages including English Spanish Italian French and Polish He has lectured all over the world and published over a hundred scientific articles with an H index of 32 Dr Colom has also written 12 books and a number of book chapters Dr. Colom’s current research focuses on psychological treatments and its biomarkers of response treatment adherence pharmacological issues cognitive impairment and its remediation and on clinical issues such as predominant polarity mixed states and temperament He has been a member of the Board of Councilors of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders a member of the Nomenclature Committee and Chair of the Website Education Committee of the same society and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Pannel of the ECNP He sits rather comfortably on the editorial board of 5 international scientific journals and enjoys reviewing articles for more than 30 others in his leisure time In June 2007 Francesc Colom was awarded with the prestigious “Mogens Schou Award” for the excellence of his research

Affective disorders, Psychoeducation and Treatment adherence.

Dr. Kapusta is Psychiatrist and Researcher at the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna Austria. He received his MD degree at the University of Vienna and completed his doctoral thesis on the epidemiology of substance abuse among youth in Austria. He is a member of the executive committee of the Austrian Society for Suicide Prevention and the Working Group for Research on Suicidal Behaviour of the German Society of Suicide Prevention. Dr. Kapusta is also an invited member of the International Academy for Suicide Research.

His research focuses on epidemiology, especially firearm suicide prevention, urban-rural differentials in suicides, psychiatric comorbidity, and substance abuse. Currently, he is examining the influence of death certification procedures on suicide misclassification.

Dr. Lim Wee Hun Stephen received his Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2010, visited the Perception Lab at the Department of Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School as a Research Fellow, and he is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the NUS. Dr. Lim is mainly interested in issues of visual and auditory cognition but has, through his endeavors to understand the way humans perceive things and hear music, developed a particular curiosity for human evolutionary biology. His recent achievements include the international EuroCogSci2011 Best Student Paper Award conferred on an undergraduate research project which he directed at the NUS, and several Teaching Excellence Awards.

Music perception and cognition, Visual perception and cognition, Evolutionary psychology, Pedagogical methods

Theofilou Paraskevi has done her Ph.D. in Health Psychology (Athens, Panteion University), M.Sc. Social exclusion and minorities (Panteion University), Social Administration-Management of Health Services (Athens, National School of Public Administration), B.Sc. (Psychology) (Panteion University), B.Sc. (Social Work) (Technological Educational Institute of Athens. Her research area are within the field of behavioral medicine/health psychology are focused on heath - related quality of life, mental health (depression, anxiety), health locus of control as well as medication compliance in chronic illness with particular reference to kidney disease, renal dialysis and transplantation. Most of her work centers on delineating psychological processes that underline patients’ outcomes and physical disease cours.

Psychosocial processes, Outcomes and quality of life in chronic illness with particular emphasis on chronic kidney disease, Dialysis and renal transplantation, Self management interventions for patients with chronic illness.

Dr Piyanjali de Zoysa has received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Colombo during the year of 2006 Currently she is working as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the University of Colombo Sri Lanka She is the longest serving Clinical Psychologist at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka the premier health care institution in the country She is the founder president of the interim committee of the Psychology Association of Sri Lanka and was involved in the establishment of the first ever post graduate clinical psychology training in the country She has authored research articles and books and have a wide presentation in scientific meetings.

Her research and academic interests are diverse: mindfulness based psychotherapy, violence against women and children, modes of teaching clinical psychology in countries where the discipline is emerging, and the structuring of the discipline of psychology in Sri Lanka. She is a member of several national bodies in Sri Lanka, including the National Child Protection Authority and the National Task Force in Child Rights.