Roger S. McIntyre, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Canada Head, Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit http://www.mdpu.ca/ Chairman and Executive Director, Brain and Cognition Discovery
University of Toronto
Dr. Roger McIntyre is currently a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto and Head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
Dr. McIntyre is also Executive Director of the Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation in Toronto, Canada. Dr. McIntyre is also Director as well as Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Dr. McIntyre is also Professor and Nanshan Scholar at Guangzhou Medical University, and Adjunct Professor College of Medicine at Korea University. Dr. McIntyre is also Clinical Professor State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA and Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences University of California School of Medicine, Riverside, California, USA. Dr. McIntyre is the founder of the Canadian Rapid Treatment Centre of Excellence (CRTCE) and is the CEO of Braxia Scientific.
Dr. McIntyre was named by Clarivate Analytics in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 as one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. This distinction is given by publishing the largest number of articles that rank among those most frequently cited by researchers globally in 21 broad fields of science and social science during the previous decade. Dr. McIntyre has published more than 700 articles/manuscripts and has edited and/or co-edited several textbooks on mood disorders.
Dr. McIntyre is involved in multiple research endeavours which primarily aim to characterize the phenomenology, neurobiology, and novel therapeutics of mood disorders. Dr. McIntyre has been especially interested in identifying innovative, rapid acting psychotropic treatments for mood disorders. Dr. McIntyre’s research has also extended into public health and implementation research at the population-based level.
Dr. McIntyre is extensively involved in medical education. He is a highly sought-after speaker at both national and international meetings. He has received several teaching awards from the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry and has been a recipient of the joint Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) / Council of Psychiatric Continuing Education Award for the Most Outstanding Continuing Education Activity in Psychiatry in Canada.
http://www.mdpu.ca/
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Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Canada Head, Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit http://www.mdpu.ca/ Chairman and Executive Director, Brain and Cognition Discovery
University of Toronto
Veronika Gold, LMFT
CO-FOUNDER AND PSYCHEDELIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Polaris Insight Center
Veronika is a marriage and family therapist who specializes in the treatment of trauma. She is a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Certified EMDR therapist, Consultant, and Facilitator, and Realization Process Teacher. She has undergone multiple trainings in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including advanced training through the Ketamine Training Center and Kriya Institute, and MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training through MAPS, and is currently a Sub-Investigator and Co-therapist, a supervisor and a trainer on the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy Clinical Trials for the treatment-resistant PTSD. She regularly presents at conferences and teaches on trauma and psychedelic-assisted therapies. Veronika is a lead trainer in the Polaris Insight Training Program.
https://www.polarisinsight.com/
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CO-FOUNDER AND PSYCHEDELIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Polaris Insight Center
Brandon Kitay, MD
Director, Behavioral Health Integration, Emory Healthcare Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Brandon Kitay graduated from the MD/PhD Program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and completed residency training in adult psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) where he developed specific interests in neuromodulation, experimental therapeutics, and clinical trial design for treatment refractory mood disorders. He served as Chief Resident of the Interventional Psychiatry Service (IPS) at Yale-New Haven Hospital developing clinical expertise in ECT, rTMS, and ketamine therapy. He also worked as a research fellow with Dr. Gerard Sanacora at the Yale Depression Research Program as a sub-investigator for several federal funded and industry sponsored clinical trials (including those that led to the FDA approval of esketamine). Clinically, he has worked to expand patient access to mental health resources and participated in implementing the first collaborative care model (CoCM) for depression and anxiety management within primary care at Yale. He joins the faculty of Emory University as an Assistant Professor as well as the Director of Behavioral Health Integration where he will work to implement a similar model throughout the network of Emory Healthcare primary care clinics. He will also continue his work in the field of "Interventional Psychiatry," working with the neuromodulation group in administering ECT and ketamine/esketamine therapy. He also hopes to continue his work in medical education around neuromodulation techniques, addressing both knowledge gaps and stigma towards enhancing patient access.
https://www.med.emory.edu/
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Director, Behavioral Health Integration, Emory Healthcare Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Brittany O'Brien
Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College
Dr. O’Brien is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine. She received her doctoral degree from the New School for Social Research in New York City and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a co-investigator on several federal, foundation, and industry sponsored trials investigating novel treatments for patients with treatment-resistant mood, anxiety and trauma-related disorders. Her clinical work specializes in treatment of patients with chronic mood disorders and supervising trainees interested in working with this population. She has a particular interest in ketamine as a treatment for patients with treatment resistant depression and furthering the field's understanding of factors that may enhance and limit treatment response.
https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/brittany-obrien-27781
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Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College
Daniel Sternthal
Attorney
Munsch Hardt
Daniel Sternthal is a recognized authority on regulatory, business, and policy issues related to health care. He serves as strategic counsel to a diverse range of health care entities (both for profit and not-for-profit) as they evaluate regulatory, administrative and transactional opportunities and navigate through challenges. For the last 20 years Daniel has focused his practice on the health care industry, representing providers across the continuum of care including individual and group medical practices, hospitals, long-term care facilities and an array of ancillary service providers on issues relating to regulatory, operational and corporate matters.
Daniel is Board Certified in Health Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a certification held by fewer than 80 attorneys statewide. He is an active member of the national, state and local health care bar, currently serving as Chair of the American Health Law Association’s Post-Acute & Long Term Service Practice Group and a member of the State Bar of Texas’ Health Law Section. Daniel has previously served as a member of the LeadingAge Legal Committee and as an officer of the Houston Bar Association’s Health Law Section. He also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake where he taught a course on the Legal Aspects of Healthcare Administration and held a position as an adjunct professor for the Spring 2016 semester at the University of Houston, teaching a course on Long Term Care and the Law.
Daniel earned his JD from The University of Texas School of Law. He holds a master’s degree from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
https://www.munsch.com/Professionals/Daniel-Sternthal
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Attorney
Munsch Hardt
Jennifer B. Dwyer, MD
Assistant Professor; Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Pediatric Depression Clinic, Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Dwyer completed her MD and PhD (Pharmacology) at the Univ. of California, Irvine, where she studied the development of the dopamine system in adolescence. She works clinically with children and adults, with a broad interest in how the brain and mind develop over time. She studies treatment-refractory adolescent depression, and hopes to better predict who will respond to different types of treatments, ranging from intensive psychotherapies to novel pharmacotherapeutics (e.g. ketamine).
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/jennifer_dwyer/
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Assistant Professor; Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Pediatric Depression Clinic, Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Elizabeth Wassenaar, MD
Regional Medical Director
Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center
Dr. Elizabeth Wassenaar comes to Pathlight following her role as Medical Director at Eating Recovery Center (ERC), Denver. Prior to joining ERC, Dr. Wassenaar served as a staff psychiatrist and medical director at the Lindner Center of Hope with emphasis on Child and Adolescent outpatient medication management and therapy.
She is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Obesity Medicine. Dr. Wassenaar has completed advanced training in:
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
Family Based Therapy (FBT) Training, University of California San Diego Eating Disorders Treatment and Research Center
Motivational Interviewing for Obesity in the Primary Care Setting, DuPont/Nemours Children’s Hospital System
Dr. Wassenaar is a Clinical Instructor at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and served as Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center prior to relocating to Denver. In addition to her clinical practice she is an avid researcher and academic writer in the area of eating disorders.
https://www.pathlightbh.com/clinical-leadership/elizabeth-wassenaar
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Regional Medical Director
Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center
Jason Sienknecht, LPC, CACII
Psychedelic Psychotherapist
PRATI & The Wholeness Center
Jason Sienknecht, LPC, CAC II, is a psychedelic psychotherapist with an interest in the potential for expanded states of consciousness to bring about healing and wholeness. He is a trained ketamine-assisted therapist and currently uses oral and intramuscular ketamine to help people heal from treatment-resistant depression and PTSD. He is also a MAPS-trained MDMA-assisted psychotherapist.
https://www.wholeness.com/doctors/jason-sienknecht-lpc-cac-ii/
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Psychedelic Psychotherapist
PRATI & The Wholeness Center
Joshua Siegel, MD
Psychiatrist
Washington University Saint Louis
My professional area of interest is in developing and understanding novel fast-acting psychopharmacological agents to treat psychiatric illness. I am currently involved in neuroimaging studies of ketamine, psilocybin, allopregnanolone and similar molecules. This is the convergence of my interests in systems neuroscience, neurotransmitters, synaptic plasticity, psychiatry and consciousness. The only thing that excites me as much as the prospect of being a part of the accelerating field of neuroscience is the prospect that I might get to use some of these advances to change the life of a human being.
https://icts.wustl.edu/people/joshua-s-siegel-md-phd/
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Psychiatrist
Washington University Saint Louis
Nicholas Mischel, MD
Assistant Professor, Director of Interventional Psychiatry and Neuromodulation Research
Wayne University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
In addition to a background in integrative neurophysiology research from MD/Ph.D. training at Wayne State University, I completed my psychiatry residency at Duke University Medical Center, focusing on brain stimulation clinical/translational research. I joined the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University's School of Medicine in 2019 and have experience in treatment of medication-resistant mood disorders, including clinical brain stimulation with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), and intravenous ketamine infusions. I currently direct the Interventional Psychiatry and Neuromodulation Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine and treat patients with medication resistant mood disorders. Our research is focused on developing “physiometrics”, psycho-physiologic biomarkers that inform real-world psychiatric practice.
https://psychiatry.med.wayne.edu/profile/ao6862
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Assistant Professor, Director of Interventional Psychiatry and Neuromodulation Research
Wayne University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Pamela Kryskow, MD
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, MD, EFT, Trainer
Roots To Thrive
Dr. Pamela Kryskow comes to the RTT-KAT team with a wealth of experience in conventional medicine augmented by her knowledge and research of psychedelic-assisted therapies and microdosing, placing her at the forefront of this new, rapidly emerging paradigm. She works as a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Specializing in alleviating the complex modality of pain, she successfully synthesizes her training in family, rural, emergency, pain, counselling and functional medicine.
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Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, MD, EFT, Trainer
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Philip Getson, DO
Family Physican
Philip Getson
Philip Getson, D.O. is a family physician in practice since 1976 in New Jersey. He is a locally, nationally and internationally recognized expert in the diagnosis and treatment of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and has lectured extensively on the subject.
He was an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Neurology at Drexel University Hospital in Philadelphia until its closing. Additionally, he completed training for qualification as a Certified Cancer Support Educator from the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education.
He is a Board Certified Thermologist and has reviewed more than 15,000 Thermographic Studies of the breast, thyroid and neuromuscular system. He has been certified by four Thermographic Boards and has lectured internationally regarding Thermographic Testing, and has authored several papers on the subject. He has served as Vice President of the American Academy of Thermology. Dr. Getson is also chairman of the committee that has formulated the national protocols for breast thermography that have been accepted by the International Thermographic Community.
https://www.drgetson.com/philip-getson.html
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Family Physican
Philip Getson
