Speaker Biographies
Paul Frewen, PhD, C.Psych
Paul Frewen joined the departments of psychiatry and psychology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada in 2008. He is currently chair of the Traumatic Stress Section of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He received the President's Early Research Award from the CPA in 2010, Early Career Awards from the Traumatic Stress sections of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations in 2013 and 2014, and the Scientist-Practitioner Early Career Award from the CPA in 2014. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles on the subjects of trauma, affect regulation, mindfulness, dissociation, and the self, primarily utilizing functional neuroimaging, experimental social cognition, and psychometrics approaches. He currently has a clinical psychology practice in London, Ontario where he primarily sees adults with PTSD, dissociative disorders, and/or chronic pain disorders and principally utilizes emotion-focused and mindfulness-based approaches to psychotherapy.
Colonel Rakesh Jetly, OMM, CD, MD, FRCPC
Colonel Rakesh Jetly is a graduate from the University of Toronto with a Doctorate in Medicine (MD). Upon graduation, he was posted to Canadian Forces (CF) Base Borden as a General Duty Medical Officer and Flight Surgeon, a senior medical officer to the United Nations mission in the Golan Heights (UNDOF) and was deployed to Rwanda as part of the CF humanitarian mission. He has filled various roles including clinical director of mental health services and regional director of the Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre (OTSSC).
In 2007 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, in 2008 he was posted to Ottawa as the mental health advisor to the Deputy Surgeon General and in 2009 Col Jetly was appointed to the Order of Military Merit as an Officer. In 2011 Col Jetly was promoted to his current rank and appointed senior psychiatrist and mental health clinical advisor to the CF Surgeon General. In 2015 he was additionally appointed “The Canadian Forces Brigadier Jonathan C. Meakins, CBE, RCAMC Chair in Military Mental Health”.
Col. Jetly is an associate professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University (Halifax); Queen’s University (Kingston), and the University of Ottawa. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as post traumatic stress disorder and operational psychiatry.
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry is the director of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. She established the Traumatic Stress Service and the Traumatic Stress Service Workplace Program, services that specialize in the treatment and research of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related comorbid disorders. She currently holds the Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests focus on studying the neurobiology of PTSD and treatment outcome research examining various pharmacological and psychotherapeutic methods. She has authored more than 100 published papers and chapters in the field of traumatic stress and is currently funded by several federal funding agencies. She regularly lectures on the topic of PTSD nationally and internationally. She has recently published a book ‘Healing the traumatized self: consciousness, neuroscience, treatment’ with Paul Frewen.
Margaret McKinnon, PhD, C. Psych
Dr. McKinnon's research focuses on the interplay between cognitive and emotional processes at the neural and behavioral level. She is particularly interested in how emotion and cognition relate to autobiographical memory and social cognition. Most of her research has been conducted in special populations, including patients with mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. With her collaborators, she is interested in identifying differences in autobiographical memory for highly emotional events (e.g., an airplane accident) and in social cognitive (e.g., empathy) performance between people with and without mood disorders and/or trauma exposure. An additional research focus concerns identifying the neural mechanisms underlying these differences and the testing of treatment interventions.
Dr. McKinnon received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2003 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Rotman Research Institute. She holds or has held competitive grant funding from the Bickell Foundation, CIHR, CIMVHR, NIMH, NARSAD, and OMHF.
Allan Schore, PhD
Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as co-author of Evolution, Early Experience, and Human Development and numerous
articles and chapters in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, clinical psychology, and clinical social work. He is past Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of more than 45 journals across a number of scientific and clinical disciplines. Dr. Schore has received a number of honors for his work, including an Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology from the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, Honorary Membership by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center Award for outstanding contributions to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Tina Stromsted, PhD, MFT, BC-DMT
Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, LPCC, BC-DMT is a Jungian analyst, Board Certified Dance therapist, and Somatic psychotherapist. She teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Depth Psychology/Somatics Doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is a core faculty member for the Marion Woodman Foundation. With 40 years of clinical experience, she teaches internationally with a special interest in the creative process, neuroscience, and embodied spirituality. Developer of Dreamdancing®, Embodied Alchemy®, and Soul Body® Center, her work explores the integration of body, brain, psyche and soul in healing. Her private practice is in San Francisco. www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com
Ed Tick, PhD
Edward Tick, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized transformational healer, psychotherapist, writer, educator and poet. Ed is Co-Founder and Director of Soldier’s Heart www.soldiersheart.net . He has been working with veterans and other survivors and developing holistic, spiritually and culturally based trauma healing for almost forty years. Dr. Tick works internationally and is honored for his ground-breaking work on the psycho-spiritual and cross-cultural healing of military, war and violent trauma and on holistic and spiritually-based healing. He has served as the U.S. military’s subject matter expert trainer on healing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury for the Army, Air Force National Guard and Special Operations chaplain and behavioral health corps and wounded warrior programs. Dr. Tick is the author of six books including the groundbreaking and award-winning War and the Soul. His newest publications are Warrior’s Return and the audible Restoring the Soul After War.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a clinical psychiatrist whose work integrates mind, brain, body, and social connections to understand and treat trauma. His research ranges from the impact of trauma on development and brain imaging, to the use of yoga, neurofeedback, EMDR, and theater for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Bessel is a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, and co-director of the Complex Trauma Treatment Network, NCTSN. Dr. van der Kolk is the author of more than 150 peer reviewed scientific articles and several books including the New York Times best-seller The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. besselvanderkolk.com and https://www.facebook.com/thebodykeepsthescore/
Margaret Wilkinson, BA, SAP
Miss Margaret Wilkinson is a training analyst in the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She leads neuroscience research reading and clinical seminars for The Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in Leeds, Cambridge and Edinburgh, and for The Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of numerous papers and two books: ‘Coming into mind. The mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective’ (2006, Routledge), and ‘Changing Minds in Therapy’ (2010, Norton Interpersonal Neurobiology series). She is in private practice in North Derbyshire, England. Her email address is mwilkinsoncurbar@yahoo.co.uk
