ISTSS Leadership

Board Members
	Jean Beckham, PhD Beckham@duke.edu

	Richard Bryant, PhD r.bryant@unsw.edu.au Associate professor of psychology and director of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Director of the posttraumatic stress disorder unit at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. Published over 80 peer reviewed journal articles on trauma and dissociation.

	Mark Creamer, PhD markcc@unimelb.edu.au Director of the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health; professor of psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia.

	Joop de Jong, MD, PhD jtdjong@gdd.amsterdam.nl Professor of mental health and culture at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. Director, Public Health and Research of HealthNet-TPO, which developed or supported psycho-social and mental health programs in (post-)conflict and post-disaster situations in 17 countries in Africa, Asia Europe and Latin America.


	Norah Feeny, PhD Norah.feeny@case.edu Associate professor, Department of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University (Case). Director, PTSD Treatment and Research Program at Case. Clinical and research interests include the delivery and evaluation of cognitive behavioral treatments for PTSD. Publications include articles and book chapters in this area.

	Sandro Galea, MD DrPh sgalea@umich.edu Associate professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Formerly associate director of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine and assistant professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Primarily interested in the social and economic production of health, particularly mental health and behavior in urban settings.

	Stevan E. Hobfoll, PhD Stevan_Hobfoll@rush.edu Director, Summa-KSU Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress. Distinguished professor, Department of Psychology, Kent State University. Co-chair, APA commission on stress and war, Desert Storm and task force on terrorism resiliency: Grants, $12 million. Author, 170 publications including Stress, Culture and Community.

	Danny Kaloupek, PhD Danny.Kaloupek@med.va.gov Deputy director for the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD (VA Boston Healthcare System); Associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Boston University School of Medicine. Current secretary and past treasurer and program Chair for ISTSS.

	Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD nlkaphd@mail.med.upenn.edu Associate director for behavioral research, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, and co-director, Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

	Andreas Maercker, MD, PhD maercker@psychologie.uzn.ch Chair of Psychopathology at Dept. of Psychology University of Zurich and director of a psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic. Research covers both clinical and epidemiological work, focusing on the aetio- and pathogenic pathways of mental disorders with particular interest in PTSD, complicated grief, and disorders of the elderly. Published more than 150 peer review articles, and authored or co-authored numerous books and diagnostic instruments.

	Alexander (Sandy) McFarlane, MD alexander.mcfarlane@adelaide.edu.au

	Josef Ruzek, PhD Josef.Ruzek@va.gov Associate director for education at the National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System; associate professor, Pacific Graduate School for Psychology. Editor of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma (2nd Edition); member of (VA) Undersecretary's Special Committee on PTSD; author of Psychological First Aid Field Guide.

	Bessel van der Kolk, MD bvanderk@aol.com

	Rachel Yehuda, PhD Rachel.Yehuda@va.gov Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the J. J. Peters Veterans Administration Medical Center, and professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Author of nearly 300 books, book chapters, and journal articles. Served as a delegate for the first White House conference on Mental Health in 1999. Her work as founder and director of the Specialized Treatment Program for Holocaust Survivors and their Families has been recognized in the Congressional Record.

	Lori Zoellner, PhD Zoellner@u.washington.edu Director of the University of Washington's Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. NIMH-funded investigator whose research and clinical expertise focuses on the prevention and treatment of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.

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