SPI Scientific Committee

Gary Kennedy, M.D., Chair SPI Scientific Council; Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Ryan K. Al Jurdi, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Michael E. DeBlakey VA Medical Center, Houston Texas

Steven Altchuler, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine

Alan Apter, M.D., Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv

Dr. José Bertolote, Coordinator, Mental and Brain Disorders, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. David Brent, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Medical Center

A. Jill Clemence, Ph.D., Clinical Research Associate, Austen Riggs Center

Kathleen Foley, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College; Director, Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation

Dan Ford, M.D., Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

J. Christopher Fowler, Ph.D., Director of Research, Austen Riggs Center Massachussetts

Dan Fox, Ph.D., Chairman of the SPI Board of Directors; Former President and CEO, Milbank Memorial Fund

Christopher Fowler, Ph.D., Austen
Riggs Center

Deborah Hales, Director of Education and Career Development, American Psychiatric Association

Patricia R. Houck, Statistical Services Administrator, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Ulrich Hegerl, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany

Herbert Hendin, M.D., SPI CEO and Medical Director; Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College

John B. Herman, M.D., Associate Chief Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

William Hsiao,  Ph.D.,  Professor,  Harvard School of Public Health

Susan Hughes, Senior Research Coordinator, Baylor College of Medicine

Jouko Lönnkvist, Research Program, Mental Health Institute of Finland

John T. Maltsberger, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University

Jane Pearson Ph.D., Chair, NIMH Suicide Research Consortium (liaison)

Cynthia Pfeffer, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical Center

Michael Phillips, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center

Laura Rothstein J.D., Professor of Law, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville

Mark Rothstein J.D., Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law, University of Louisville

Luis Sanchez, M.D., President of the Federation of State Physician Health Plans

Edward R. Shapiro, M.D., CEO and Medical Director, Austen Riggs

Barbara Schneidman, M.D., Vice President for Education, American Medical Association

Katalin Szanto, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

James Thompson, M.D., President of Federation of State Medical Boards

Jane Tillman, Ph.D., Austen Riggs Center ABPP

Hong Wang, M.D. Ph.D., SPI Program Evaluator;  Professor, Yale University School of Public Health

Danuta Wasserman, M.D., Director of the Swedish National Suicide Prevention Center

Robert Wise, M.D., Vice-President for Standards, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals


 
 
 
 

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