Authors
Dr Veal is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalytic candidate pursuing certification in performance psychiatry. He is the founder and CEO of Timothy M. Veal, MD, Inc. He will be expanding his practice with a new clinic in the University Towne Center area of San Diego, just east of La Jolla, in early 2026. His work integrates psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies, lifestyle medicine, and advanced neuromodulation treatments, including TMS, Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy (MeRT), and esketamine, to promote emotional recovery, brain health, and performance resilience in athletes, veterans, and high-achieving individuals.
Dr Efrati is the founder and director of the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Shamir Medical Center, the director of Research and Development and Head of Nephrology, and the cofounder and chairman of the Medical Advisory Board at Aviv Clinics.
Dr Song is a former psychiatry resident at UC Davis Health.
Ms Staal is a psychologist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dr Sakr is a first-year psychiatry resident at Creighton University.
Dr Modi is a second-year psychiatry resident at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska.
Dr Petersen is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University and practices inpatient and outpatient care at Medstar Washington Hospital Center. He is also on the steering committee of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance.
Dr Swartz is a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Center for Advanced Psychotherapy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr Modi is a first-year psychiatry resident at Creighton University.
Ms Brough is a psychology PhD student at the University of Denver.
Dr Kopell is a professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience. He serves as director of the Center for Neuromodulation and codirector of The Bonnie and Tom Strauss Center for Movement Disorders at the Mount Sinai Health System. He has pioneered the use of intraoperative imaging during deep brain stimulation.
Dr Best is the director of the Neuroscience Center in Deerfield, Illinois.
Dr Amin is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr Taj is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve Medical School. He is also a senior attending physician of psych-oncology at the Seidman Cancer Center in the Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, the Department of Psychiatry, at University Hospitals of Cleveland.
Dr Peltz is an assistant professor of psychology at SUNY Brockport. His research is in developmental psychopathology, with a specific emphasis on sleep.
Dr Kastanenka is an assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Dr Farnsworth is a practicing psychotherapist in Aotearoa, New Zealand’s southernmost city, Dunedin. He is 1 of 6 Life Members of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (APANZ). He is also an active social scientist and has taught for 30 years across a variety of university teaching positions. He has published internationally in a wide variety of fields, including social exclusion and poverty, the Enlightenment, digital mimicry, social and dynamic theory, methodology and the cultural unconscious.
Mr Makhija is a postgraduate researcher at the UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.
Dr Dickerson is a senior psychologist at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, MD, a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Dr Pahwa is a PGY-3 resident in psychiatry at the University of Louisville, KY.