Authors
Dr Ramakrishnan specializes in spiritual psychiatry and is currently completing his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Tower Health, Drexel University program. He holds a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard Divinity School, where he developed an inter-religious theological framework of healing, and pursued contemplative neuroscience research in the Harvard Psychiatry Department. To refine his theoretical "Mindfulness-to-Transcendence" framework, which underpins the neuroscientific basis of chaplains' Empathic Listening care, he joined the PhD program at UC Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. Dr Ramakrishnan is dedicated to establishing evidence-based Spiritual Psychiatry programs. He advocates for combining rigorous theological education with contemplative psychiatric approaches, believing this is essential for a contemporary social psychiatry that can address societal conflicts and fulfill the word's true meaning: "Healer of the Soul.
Dr Thordarson is a psychologist and manager of the Outpatient Acute Mental Health Service at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in California.
Dr Tastenhoye is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis.
Dr Chiew is an associate professor of Psychology at the University of Denver.
Dr Pierre is a health sciences clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF and the unit chief of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital Adult Inpatient Unit.
Dr Hirshbein is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr Kartiko is a third-year psychiatry resident at Creighton University.
Mr Sprague is a staff AI engineer at EnsoData.
Dr Abi-Dargham is a distinguished professor and the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Stony Brook University in New York, the Lourie Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, SUNY distinguished professor, director of the Multi-Modal Translational Imaging Lab, associate dean and associate vice president of Clinical and Translational Science, and principal investigator at Long Island Network for Clinical and Translational Science.
Dr Coskun is a first-year psychiatry resident at Creighton University.
Dr Welch is a clinical psychologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. From 1997 to 2001 he authored the well-received column “Managing Managed Care” for Psychiatric Times. He is the author of State of Confusion: Psychological Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind. He can be reached at [email protected].
Dr Tariot is the director at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and has served in this position since its inception in 2006, in addition to his roles as a clinician, researcher, and leader. He serves as codirector of the international Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative.
Dr Solomon is the clinical lead for geriatric psychiatry services at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine within the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Prof Barlati is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia.
Dr Canto is a third-year psychiatry resident at Baylor College of Medicine. His interests include Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, for which he will be pursuing fellowship training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, as well as psychodynamic psychotherapy and neuropsychiatry.
Dr Tcheremissine is a professor and research director in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Atrium Health/Wake Forest Medical University-Charlotte Campus.
Dr Rader is a behavioral geneticist, neuroscientist, and postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics.
Dr Higgins is an affiliate associate professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr Isa is a 4th year psychiatry resident at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr Capote is medical director of the Division of Neuropsychiatry at Dent Neurologic Institute in Amherst, New York, and medical director of addiction services at BryLin Hospital in Buffalo, New York. He is also the Neuropsychiatry Section Editor for Psychiatric Times.