Peter Norrie has held clinical management positions since 2002 and currently is the Chief Psychiatrist and Director of Clinical Services for Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol & Drug Services, ACT Health. In addition, he is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The Australian National University Medical School and is also a jurisdictional member of the Safety and Quality Partnership Standing Committee of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council. (This committee launched the National Mental Health Recovery Framework in 2013). He is also an ACT and bi-national representative on a number of committees for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He has clinical and research interests in schizophrenia and psychopharmacology. He has also focused on support for international medical graduates and education and training for colleagues, registrars and general practitioners.

Psychiatry and suicide Therapy

Clare Henn-Haase obtained her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Illinois, USA. She worked in the field of trauma for over 15 years. Prior to taking a position at NUS, she was involved in clinical research and academia as well as clinical practice where she worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, USA and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs for over 10 years followed by accepting a position as Assistant Professor and Clinical Director of the PTSD Research Program at New York University Medical Center, New York, USA across four years. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in USA and is certified in several types of trauma treatment including dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, cognitive processing therapy, and prolonged exposure for the treatment of PTSD. She is an active member of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and the American Psychological Association. Her research interests include randomized controlled treatment trials for PTSD using evidence based CBT treatment, epidemiological and neuropsychological studies of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, evidence based treatment trials using cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of PTSD and ASD, particularly with women survivors of interpersonal violence, veterans and police officers. She has over 26 peer reviewed publications.

PTSD using evidence based CBT treatment, epidemiological studies of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, evidence based treatment trials using cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of PTSD and ASD, trauma in general and particularly with women survivors of interpersonal violence, veterans, and police officers.

Diana Kljenak is an Assistant Professor and a Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Lead for the University of Toronto. She is a Staff Psychiatrist in the Community Mental Health Program at the University Health Network in Toronto and a Consulting Psychiatrist for the Central Toronto and Regent Park Community Health Centers. Her primary teaching and clinical interests include both collaborative care and psychotherapy. She is a Psychotherapy Coordinator at the UHN Centre for Mental Health as well as the CBT Psychotherapy Core Curriculum Block Coordinator and CBT seminar Co-lead. She is a collaborative care supervisor and CBT supervisor at the UHN Centre for Mental Health. She is the President of the Ontario Psychiatric Association and a Co-chair of the Ontario Coalition of Psychiatrists. She is active in the Canadian Psychiatric Association as a Member of its Membership Affairs Committee. She was formerly a Co-chair of the Collaborative Mental Health Working Group at the University of Toronto. She has also been invited as a Visiting Professor to University of Tampere and Southern Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Centre, Helsinki, Finland. She is the 2012 recipient of the Ivan L Silver Award for Excellence in Continuing Mental Health Education, University of Toronto.

Dr. Kljenak’s interests include continuous medical education, interprofessional education, public education, collaborative care and psychotherapy. Her special interest is in the development of a higher level of course evaluation that would reflect how CME enhances competency and performance.

Zul Merali (PhD) is President/CEO and Scientific Director of the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research. He is also full professor in the faculties of Medicine (Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Psychiatry) and Social Sciences (Psychology) at the University of Ottawa, as well as research professor at the Institute of Neuroscience at Carleton University. Dr. Merali's research endeavours, supported by grants from CIHR and NSERC, strive to characterize the body's response to stressful and appetitive events, and the relationship of stressors (including early-life trauma) to mood and anxiety disorders. Another focus of his research is also to determine how pharmacological interventions (pharmaceutical and nutriceutical) may attenuate stress-induced pathophysiology. In this vein, he and his colleagues have been attempting to isolate anti-anxiety compounds from a variety of rare plants. Dr. Merali's research investigations extend from the behavioural to the cellular and molecular levels, and involve experimental animals as well as human subjects. Dr. Merali has published over a hundred scientific papers, more than 20 book chapters and over 100 conference presentations.

Depression, mental health research, Stress and Neurochemistry

Moses V Chao received his BA degree from Pomona College and PhD from UCLA in Biochemistry. His lab defined the genes encoding the NGF receptor and his research interests are in studying the mechanisms used by trophic factors to change synaptic plasticity. His laboratory has published more than 270 papers. He served as Senior Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience for eleven years and was President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2012. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and a recipient of a Zenith Award, a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Molecular Mechanisms of Trophic Factor Action

Adel Masaud Agina has completed his BSc in Computer Science, Tripoli University/Libya in 1991 and in 2003; he has obtained his MSc in Telematics Education from Twente University, the Netherlands. In 2005, he started another MSc in Communication Studies, PhD in Technical and Professional Communication at Twente University. In 2014, he started another PhD in Human-Media-Interaction from Twente University. He focuses on the effect of media on young Children's Behavioral Development (CBD). Currently, he is involved in multidisciplinary projects such as using AURA science and RFID (Radio Frequencies Identification) towards understanding the effect of media on children.

Computers in Human Behavior, Behavioral Studeis, Comunication Studies, Technical and Professional Communication, Self-Regulation

Rocco de Filippis completed his MD and PhD from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. He holds a Master’s degree and he improved respectively in Bipolar Disorders and Addictive behavior in the years 2011/2012. He currently works at the Institute of Psychopathology, Rome as a Psychiatrist and Addictive Medicine, and up to now presented as scientific coordinator of CME and Master of Addictive Behaviors; he is also an official candidate at the Psychoanalytic Italian Society of the First Italian Center of Rome.

Psychiatry and Bipolar disorders

Fuaad Mohammed Freh has completed his MA from Baghdad University, Iraq and his PhD from University of Plymouth, UK. He is currently the Head of the Department of Psychology at University of Anbar, Iraq. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals. He has also published about 10 papers in Arabic journals and two books.

Psychiatry and Psychology Disorders