Delegates included outstanding psychologists, social workers, sociologists, therapists and academic experts from all over the world and all levels of the community, many of whom have dealt with, and managed living with terrorism in their own countries. It was a unique coming together of practitioner and academic experts in a spirit of international, multidisciplinary and non-partisan collaborative problem solving. Over 90 experts committed to attend from the USA, Israel, Iran, Palestine, Chile, Italy, Spain, Australia, France, Germany and Canada.
Dr. Abdollahi Abdolhossein
Islamic Azad University, Zarand
Dr. Ofra Ayalon
Director, Nord COPE Center
Ms. Lynn Barnett
Chair, Violence, Conflict and Health Sub-Group of MEDACT
Ms. Rachel Ben Moshe
Scheider Children’s Medical Centre of Israel
Dr. Roni Berger
Director of Community Services, NATAL, The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War
Assoc. Prof. Patricia Blakeney
Senior Psychologist, Shriners Hospital for Children-Galveston (SHC-G)
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, UTMB
Prof. Patrick Boyer, Q.C.
Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
Dr. Daniel Brom
Founder and Director, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma
Prof. Richard Bryant
Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales, and Director of the PTSD Unit, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Dr. Lisa Butler
Senior Research Scholar, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Robert Butterworth
International Trauma Associates, California
Anticipatory Anxiety and Terrorism – A Nation at Risk
Dr. Juesta Caddell
Senior Research Clinical Psychologist, Health, Social and Economics Research Unit, RTI International
Dr. Lawrence Calhoun
Professor of Psychology, UNC Charlotte
Dr. Susan Cassano
Psychologist, private practice
Dr. James Clark
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, College of Social Work and the College of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry)
Prof. Roxane Cohen-Silver
Dept of Psychology & Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Yael Danieli
Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past President, Representative to the United Nations, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Assoc. Prof. Darren Davis
Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University and Director of the Program in Public Opinion and Political Participation
Dr. Helena Syna Desevilya
Emek Yezreel College
Dr. Dickson Diamond
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s Bioterrorism Program
Dr. Lennis Echterling
Professor of Psychology and Director of Counseling Psychology, James Madison University
Dr. John Fairbank
Co-Director, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Itziar Fernandez UNED
Associate Professor at Open University, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Charles Figley
Professor and Director Florida State University Traumatology Institute, Editor of Traumatology, and Editor of the Brunner-Routledge Psychosocial Stress Book Series
Dr. Pamela Fischer
Psychologist, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-OKC and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center
Dr. Betty Sue Flowers
Director, Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
Dr. Julian Ford
Associate Professor Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center
Dr. Nathalie Frensley
Chair, International Communication section of the International Studies Association
Dr. E. Scott Geller
Professor and Director, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Virginia Tech
Dr. Yori Gidron
School of Psychology, University of Southampton
Dr. Virginia Gil-Rivas
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dr. Rob Gordon
Clinical Director, Critical Incident Stress Management Service, Department of Human Services, Victoria, and Psychological Consultant to the International Department of Australian Red Cross, and New Zealand Department of Child Youth and Family
David Grill
Treatment Centre for Traumatic Life Experiences & Trauma Prevention Services
Jack Hermann
Program Director, Disaster Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness, University of Rochester Medical Center
Dr. Stevan Hobfoll
Kent State University and Summa Health System
Dr Alison E. Holman
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine
Rev. Dr Philip Hughes
Christian Research Association (Australia)
Dee Ingle
Trauma and Loss Consultant and Specialist, The Institute of Trauma and Loss in Children
Dr. Diane Isaacs
Counseling Psychology, and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist.
Dr. Gary Jackson
Founder, president and CEO of Psynapse Technologies
Dr. Louis Jehel
University Hospital Tenon, AP-HP, Paris France
Kate Jonas
Manager, SEASONS Geriatric Outpatient Program, Department of Psychiatry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Prof. Krzysztof Kaniasty
Professor of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Roger Klein
National Institute of Trauma and Loss in Children
Dr. Cheryl Koopman
Associate Professor (Research), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Prof. Steve Kornguth
Director, Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies
Director, Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats, University of Texas at Austin
Les Kurtz
Director and co-founder, National Mass Fatalities Institute
Mariam Kurtz
Independent journalist
Lisa LaDue
Director and co-founder, National Mass Fatalities Institute
Steven E. Locke
Co-chair, Psychosocial Dimensions of Biodefense Preparedness and Response Initiative
Cathy Malchiodi
National Centre for Trauma and Loss in Children
Assoc. Prof. Daniel N. McIntosh
Department of Psychology, University of Denver
Dr. Randall D. Marshall
Director, Trauma Studies, Associate Director, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Brigitte Nacos
Dept of Political Science, Columbia University
April Naturale
Clinical social worker, private practice
Marie Nelson
Guidance Counselor and District Trauma Coordinator, Tyler ISD
Dr. Ruth Pat-Horenczyk
Israel Centre for Treatment of Psychotrauma
Dr. Ami Pedahzur
School of Political Science, University of Haifa and Deputy Chair, National Security Studies, NSSC, Mt. Carmel, Haifa
Prof. James W. Pennebaker
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Astrid Perez Pinan
Educator (freelance)
Patti Porter
Counselor, Andy Woods Elementary in Tyler, Texas
Michael Poulin
Dept of Psychology and Social Behaviour, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Tom Pyszczynski
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Dr. Lynette Rentoul
North London National Health Psychological Services
Dr. Stephanie Rude
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas
Dr. Cheryl Sanders-Sardello
Co-founder, The Spiritual School of Psychology
Dr. Robert Sardello
Co-founder, The Spiritual School of Psychology
Dr. Merritt Schreiber
Program Manager, Terrorism/Disaster Branch, UCLA/National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Geanette Seymour
Salvation Army
Gail Sheehy
Literary Journalist and author of many books, including Passages and her latest, Middletown America, One Town’s Passage from Trauma to Hope – a recording of the journey of shattered survivors of 9/11, USA
Dr. David Spiegel
Wilson Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Ginny Sprang
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky
Dr. William Steele
Founder and Director, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
Prof. Heinz Steinert
Professor of Sociology at the J.W.Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Prof. Richard Tedeschi
Dept Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Paul Terry
Birkbeck College in the University of London
Ken Thompson
Director of External Affairs, Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Prof. Michael Traugott
Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
Prof. Eric Uslaner
Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
Prof. Jeff Victoroff
Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Director of Neurobehavior, Department of Neurology, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Dr. Patricia Watson
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Maria Wheeler
Family Therapist, Hertfordshire, UK
Dr. Bonnita Wirth
Supervisor, Disaster Physical and Mental Health Services, Greater Los Angeles Chapter, American Red Cross
Dr. Thomas Yarnell
Clinical Psychologist, private practice
Dr. Iyad Zaqout
Project Manger, Gaza Community Mental Health Program