Leonard-Zabel is a Full Professor of Psychology and serves as the Psychology Department Coordinator at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. She owns and operates a private clinic specializing in School Psychology/School Neuropsychology and Clinical Forensic Examining. She holds diplomat and fellow certificates/certifications in Neuropsychology, Forensic Counseling and Examining, Psychotherapy, Autism, Addictions, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Clinical Anxiety, Disability Analysis, Brain-Behavioral International Coaching, Telepractice and in Homeland Security. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Board of Disability Analysts. Dr. Leonard-Zabel is the recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in School Neuropsychology from the American Board of School Neuropsychology. She serves on the Learning Disabilities Worldwide Congress as one of the Board of Directors (LDW). Dr. Leonard-Zabel recently received international awards acknowledging her Keynote addresses encompassing school neuropsychological research on assessment approaches involving Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescent Addiction, and Mental Health focusing on the Anxious Brain, Assessment Practices, Learning Differences, Ethics & Law and Traumatic Brain Injury. Dr. Leonard-Zabel was awarded in December 2019 the title of Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA), representing the USA with the “Humanitarian” designation for her volunteerism both nationally and internationally. Throughout her career at Curry College, she was awarded the Curry College Excellence in Teaching Researcher of the Year Award, Excellence in Teaching with Partnerships & Collaboration Award, Excellence and Research in the Field, and Person of the Year, acknowledging excellence in teaching, mentorship, collegiality, leadership, and community service. Dr. Leonard-Zabel presents nationally and internationally on an ongoing basis.

Tine Gregoor is a Belgian occupational health physician, child consultation clinic physician, public speaker, author and filantropist. She has experience in anesthesiology and childhood psychiatry and has a special interest in the field of maternity protection, fertility, mental illness, particulary in the management of psychotrauma. During the 2016 Brussels attacks at the Maelbeek metrostation, Gregoor was a first responder, helped the most heavily injured in a prehospital setting. In her book ‘Bombs in Brussels’, which she wrote together with war journalist Joanie de Rijke, she goes in search of victims, relatives, aid workers, policymakers and security services five years afterwards.

Patricia A. Broderick has completed her PhD from St John’s University, Queens, NY, USA and her postdoctoral studies from The Albert Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA and Cornell University Medical School, White Plains, NY, USA. Patricia serves as Tenured and Full Medical Professor in the Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences at the City University of New York School of Medicine and as Director of the Neurobiology Course at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY School of Medicine, CCNY. A highly recognized expert and prominent editor, author, inventor and lecturer, Patricia has published more than 500 papers in reputed journals and sought after books and she serves as an editorial board member of repute worldwide. Dr. Broderick holds several patents and trademarks and is the Founder and CEO of Eazysense Nanotechnologies Inc.and the Broderick Brain Foundation.

OBJECTIVE: Author reviewed the literature published from 2005 regarding mental health responses to pandemics. METHOD: The review began with a computerized literature search. Further sources were located through citations from articles identified in the original search. RESULTS: The author synthesized the contents of the articles reviewed using the categories of 1) Identifying the mental health related implications of a pandemic as well as effects from being in quarantine 2) Effects on healthcare professionals 3) Identifying high risk populations 4) Optimizing screening protocols 5) Administering intervention and treatment effectively 6) Evidence based treatments targeting mental health symptoms CONCLUSION: Prior research has shown that there can be profound mental health related effects from a pandemic and those who are already dealing with mental illness have an exacerbation of symptoms. High risk populations should be identified with heightened screening, and appropriate evidence-based interventions administered which can help decrease mental health related symptoms.

Helen Brice has a busy private practice in London. She is a highly experienced psychotherapist for individuals and couples, with a specialist interest in Personality Disorders, particularly BPD/EUPD, and with clients who are emotionally over-controlled with personalities that are avoidant, obsessivecompulsive, paranoid and also chronically depressed or have anorexia nervosa. Helen’s referrals come from psychiatrists, the Maudsley Hospital and, since her pioneering Stimmung Therapy Programme for musicians and actors, the British Association Of Performance Arts Medicine and the Equity Charitable Trust. She spoke at the World Music Conference 2020, and at the Society For Existential Analysis Conference in 2018.

Soumya embarked on a Gap year in 2018 and worked as a care assisstant in a care home and a support worker for autistic adults. 2019 she got accepted into Dundee Medical School and now is a 2nd year medical student

 Lis is a medical doctor who is a double board certified Adult and Child Psychiatrist. Dr. Lea is active in the American Psychiatric Association, having served as a member of their National Ethics Committee and on the Board of Trustees. She served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center, and has presented numerous symposia and workshops at the annual APA meetings and at the meetings of the Institute of Psychiatric Services. Her Academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice and the Journal of Academic Psychiatry.

Olivia completed her PhD in neuroscience in June 2020 at Weill Cornell Medicine and will start her MD at Sackler School of Medicine in fall 2020. She plans to become a psychiatrist while continuing researching the underlying brain mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders. In her spare time, she is a science writer for both technical and laymen articles that have been published on sites such as Technology Networks.

Mab Segrest is Fuller-Maathai Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women’s Studies at Connecticut College in New London, CT, USA. Segrest earned her PhD from Duke University in 1979. In addition to Connecticut College where she taught from 2002 to 2014, she had fellowships from Emory University (Atlanta, GA), Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), Georgia College and State University (Milledgeville, GA). She is author of Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (The New Press, 2020). She is a long-time student of and participant in US social movements from a transnational and intersectional feminist perspective. She is also the author of the award-winning Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, published in 1994 to become a classic of white anti-racist practice (released in a 25th anniversary edition in 2019).

President of Learning Stewards and Director of the Children of the Code Project,  David Boulton is a learning-activist, technologist, public speaker, documentary producer, and author.  As a learning theorist and architect David designed Apple Computer’s ‘Electronic Campus’. He has been an adviser to the Chair of the California Senate Education Committee, a member of the U.S. D.O.E.’s Gateway Project, and a featured blogger for the National Association of School Superintendents. He appeared in the PBS Television show “The New Science of Learning: Brain Fitness for Kids” and in the Science Network’s “The New Science of Educating” broadcast. David's current project, the "Magic Ladder", is a revolutionary new technology and pedagogy for learning to read. 

 

Adrian Low is a chartered psychologist (BPS) and a coaching psychologist (MISCP) that has graduated with a Doctor of Clinical & Industrial/Organisational Psychology. He also holds a master’s degree in Education. Dr. Low’s workplace stress research has won the presidential award for doctoral research excellence at the California Southern University and since then he has been invited to be a keynote speaker in many conferences worldwide. Dr. Low is the president of the Hong Kong Association of Psychology, a not-for-profit organisation. Besides that, he is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Worcester as well as an adjunct lecturer at the HKU (university of Hong Kong) School of Professional and Continuing Education.