Authors

Dr Wilson is a consultation liaison psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt, and a physician scientist at the Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center.

Ms Hawkins is a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine. She has an interest in both academic psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Wilsa M.S. Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, FAPA

Dr Wilsa Charles Malveaux is a sports psychiatrist in Los Angeles, California, and CEO of WCM Sports Psych. She is an advocate and educator on the intersection of mental health, sports, and racial and social justice. Dr Charles Malveaux lends her expertise as a psychiatric consultant to multiple national sport-related agencies, professional sports teams, and organizations. She served for over 4 years as the Western Regional Trustee (region 4) on the Board of Black Psychiatrists of America. Dr Charles Malveaux now serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Sports and Performance Psychiatry (ABSPP), as well as on advisory boards for organizations serving the community.

Dr Combs is a board-certified psychiatrist and medical director of inpatient psychiatry at Harborview, as well as an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the psychiatry clerkship for the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Dr Oldak is a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Tony Cunningham, PhD

Dr Cunningham is an assistant professor and the director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic in the Psychiatry Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

Sam A. Kashani, MD

Dr Kashani is a board-certified sleep medicine physician who practices in Santa Monica, Porter Ranch, and Santa Clarita. He is currently president of the California Sleep Society and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr Nyer is a clinical psychologist at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Gitlin is the distinguished professor of clinical psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is currently the director of the Adult Division in the Department of Psychiatry, Medical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Behavioral Health Services and director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital.

David B. Yaden, PhD

Dr Yaden is the Griffiths Professor in Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He is a research associate at the University of Oxford and the cofounder of the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE). He studies brief experiences with the potential for long-term positive impact. His current research at the Yaden Lab focuses on psychedelic experiences, including their risks, benefits, and mechanisms.