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International Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs:

  • Dr. David H. Rosmarin, PhD, ABPP (USA; President, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Alan Fung, MD, ScD, FRCPC, DFAPA (Canada; Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)


Members:

  • Dr. Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD (Brazil; Past Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, MD, PhD (Brazil; Co-Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Peter Verhagen, MD, PhD (The Netherlands; Past Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Rajashree Ray, MD, FRCPsych (UK) (India; Secretary, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Esther Kim (USA; Program Chair, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Leihua Edstrom (USA; Program Chair, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Glen Milstein (USA; President Elect, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Hasan Kaplan (Turkey; Dean, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Yalova University)
  • Dr. Hanneke Schaap-Jonker (Netherlands; Full Professor in Clinical Psychology of Religion, Vrije Universiteit)
  • Dr. King-Yee Agatha Chong, MBChB, FHKCPsych, FHKAM(Psychiatry) (Hong Kong SAR, China; Executive Committee Member, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Sarah Eagger, MBBS, FRCPsych (United Kingdom;  Executive Committee Member, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Marta Helena de Freitas (Brazil; President of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion- IAPR)
  • Dr. Constantine Psimopoulos (USA; Instructor on Bioethics and Human Flourishing/Senior Program Admin, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  • Dr. Farha Abbasi, MD (USA; Executive Committee Member, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Anahy Fonseca, MD (Brazil; Executive Committee Member, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)


Scientific Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs:

  • Dr. Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD (Brazil; Past Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Esther Kim (USA; Program Chair, APA Division 36)


Members (Psychiatry):

  • Dr. John R. Peteet (USA; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School)
  • Dr. Mary Lynn Dell (USA; Chair, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Associate Medical Director, Institute of Living/Hartford Healthcare; Professor of Psychiatry, UConn School of Medicine & Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University)
  • Dr. Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, MD, PhD (Brazil; Co-Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Peter Verhagen, MD, PhD (The Netherlands; Past Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)
  • Dr. Alan Fung, MD, ScD, FRCPC, DFAPA (Canada; Chair, WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry)


Members (Psychology): 

  • Dr. Joseph Currier (USA; Member-at-large, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Glen Milstein (USA; President Elect, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Jennifer Ripley (USA; Hughes Endowed Chair, Regent University)
  • Dr. Scott Richards (USA; President,  Bridges Institute for Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies)
  • Dr. Craig Warlick (USA; Assistant Professor of Counseling, Texas Tech University)
  • Dr. Sarah Salcone (USA; Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow, NewYork Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medicine)
  • Dr. Theresa Clement Tisdale (USA; Professor of Clinical Psychology, Azusa Pacific University)
  • Dr. Leihua Edstrom (USA; Program Chair, APA Division 36)
  • Dr. Hasan Kaplan (Turkey; Dean, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Yalova University)
  • Dr. Marta Helena de Freitas (Brazil; President of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion- IAPR)


Members (Chaplaincy):

  • Angelika A. Zollfrank, MDiv, BCC (USA; Chaplain, McLean Hospital)
  • Kerry Maloney, MDiv (USA; Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life, Harvard Divinity School)
  • Csaba Szilagyi, MDiv, MLA, MS, ACPE, FACHE (USA; Director, Transforming Chaplaincy)
  • Allison Kestenbaum, MA, MPA, BCC-PCHAC, ACPE Certified Educator (USA; Associate Clinical Professor, UC San Diego Health Sciences)
  • Alex Beth Schapiro, MAPCC, BCC (USA; Manager of Spiritual Services, ACO Spiritual Health, Atlantic Health System)
  • Natasha Dachos, MSSW, MAPCC, BCC (USA; Chaplain, New York Presbyterian Hospital)



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