University of Virginia Health System

  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

CSMHI Faculty, Staff, and Advisory Board

Lisa Aronson, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the Director of CSMHI and Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia and Editor of CSMHI's journal, Mind and Human Interaction.  She brings to CSMHI her educational background in law, clinical psychology, and social work.  She has worked clinically with communities, children, and families affected by traumatic events as Director of Child Evaluation, Trauma Psychiatry Service, U.C.L.A. and as a consultant to mental health professionals in Turkey following the earthquake (sponsored by the American Jewish World Service) and Central America following Hurricane Mitch (sponsored by the Pan American-World Health Organization).  She has presented to educators, lawyers, and mental health professionals on varied topics related to trauma, traumatic bereavement, homicide, preparation, safety, foster children, and clinical interviewing of traumatized individuals.  She has taught at the Graduate Center for Child Development in Los Angeles and has been a lecturer in the Continuing Education Summer Program at Smith College School for Social Work, U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Social Welfare, Antioch University (Los Angeles), Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, and the Trauma Psychiatry Division, U.C.L.A.-N.P.I.  Dr. Aronson has published chapters and articles regarding consultation to mental health workers serving children and families affected by disasters as well as the impact of traumatic experiences on the mental life of children and adolescents.

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., Founder of CSMHI and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. Dr. Volkan is currently the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.  He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington DC. and from 1983-1984, he served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology and in 1994 received the society's Nevitt Sanford award for outstanding contributions to the field. In 1995, he received the Max Hayman award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association for his contributions to the knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust and genocide. In 1996, he received the L. Bryce Boyer Award for a paper based on his work in post-Ceauçescu Romania from the Society for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropology Association. In 1999 he gave the Sigmund Freud Lecture at the Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria and received the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize. In 2000, he served for four months as an Inaugural Fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies in Tel Aviv. He is the Editor Emeritus and Founder of CSMHI's journal, Mind and Human Interaction, and has published over thirty books. His work has been translated into Finnish, German, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. His latest book is "Blind Trust: Large Groups and their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror  ".  In 2003 he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy of the City of Vienna and in 2004 he has been awarded the Teacher of the Year Award by the American College of Psychoanalysts.

Carroll A. Weinberg, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Wynnewood, PA.  He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine and Associate Scholar with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and with its Center on Terrorism, Counter Terrorism, and Homeland Security.  He is also the founder and an Advisory Board member of the Liberty Center for the Treatment of Torture Survivors.

Ricardo Ainslie, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and an Adjunct Faculty member at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is the co-winner of the 2003 Digital News Award for Best Project (photography, text and design) for Exhibit book "The Road to Redemption: Jasper, Texas, The healing of a Community Crisis."  He is also the winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Psychoanalytic Education Award presented by the American Psychoanalytic Association in January 2004.

Maurice Apprey, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatric Medicine and Associate Dean for Student Support at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine . He is Co-Editor of the Center's quarterly journal Mind and Human Interaction. He was trained in psychoanalysis in London at Anna Freud's Centre for the Psychoanalytic Study and Treatment for Children and in adult psychoanalysis at the New York Freudian Society.  Dr. Apprey has co-authored eight books and numerous articles. He was a key participant in CSMHI's Estonia project, directing the community project in Mustamäe, and acted as director of CSMHI's Richmond Project.

Richard T. Arndt, Ph.D. spent 24 years in the US foreign service focusing on expanding the potential for cultural diplomacy. He is President of Americans for UNESCO and serves on the Advisory Council of the American Iranian Society .  Until this year, Dr. Arndt acted as Chairman of the Board of theNational Peace Foundation for 15 years and was given its Peacebuilder Award.  Dr. Arndt is Chairman of the Lois Roth Endowment and Americans for the Preservation of Ancient Tyre.  He is the former President of the national Fulbright Alumni Association, and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington universities. As a member of CSMHI, has participated in workshops and conferences in Moscow, Tallinn, and Charlottesville.  Dr. Arndt's latest book entitled, "First Resort of Kings: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century" is due out in January 2005. 

Bankole Johnson, M.D. is a CSMHI advisory board member. He is Professor of Neurology and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Robert M. Carey, M.D., MACP is a CSMHI Advisory board member.  He is the former Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and is currently the Harrison Distinguished Professor of Medicine.  In 2003, Dr. Carey, an internationally known researcher of endocrinology, was the recipient of UVA's Thomas Jefferson Award.

Kutaiba S. Chaleby, M.D., FAPA (Kurt) is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist for KidsPeace National Center for Crisis. From 1983 to 1997 he was Head of the Division of Psychiatry and a Consultant Psychiatrist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  He has been an Associate Editor for the Arab Journal of Psychiatry since 1989. 

Ali Gallagher, J.D. is a lawyer and a former trauma nurse. She has completed four years of didactic course work as a research scholar at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute and is conducting a quantitative analytic study of Bosnian refugees living in Croatia who are undergoing psychotherapy. She has traveled to Croatia and Bosnia several times as part of a special State Department mission under a Public/Private Initiative with the Office of Global Humanitarian De-mining. She participated in CSMHI's Georgia project.

Arthur Garson, Jr., M.D., M.P.H. is Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President at the University of Virginia, and James Carroll Flippin Professor of Medical Sciences.

Lyn Graybill, Ph.D. is a consultant, currently for the Open Society Institute, CENTRA Technology, Inc. and the American Academy of Religion (scholar database), manuscript reviewer for African Studies Review and Studies in Comparative International Development,  and editorial member of Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution. She is currently a lecturer at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institue of Technology. She has been a lecturer in African politics at UVa and a fellow at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Her recent research focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Dr. Graybill lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Margie S. Howell, M.S.N., R.N., is a clinical specialist in adult psychiatric/mental health nursing and is a member of CSMHI's Advisory Board. She was a regular participant in CSMHI's Baltic workshops, participated in the Kuwait project, and brings to CSMHI a wealth of cross-cultural experiences combined with a specialized knowledge of stress management and coping skills. She is a certified mediator in the Charlottesville court system.

W. Nathaniel Howell, Ph.D. During his distinguished career as a diplomat in the US Department of State, Ambassador Howell was Country Director for Northern Arabia, Political Advisor to the Commander in Chief of Central Command and US Ambassador to Kuwait at the time of the 1990 Iraqi invasion. Since his retirement from the State Department, he has served as Resident Diplomat at CSMHI. He is John Minor Maury, Jr. Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Global Policy Research Institute and the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies Program at the University of Virginia. He was also Director of CSMHI's Kuwait Project.

Norman Itzkowitz, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. A psychoanalytically-trained historian, he served many years as Master of Princeton's Wilson College and is revered there as an expert in student-related educational and administrative matters. He is a member of CSMHI's Advisory Board, participated in CSMHI's Baltic workshops from their inception, and is a member of the Turkish-Greek dialogue facilitating team. His numerous books are based on in-depth studies of historical processes that include the influence of human interaction.

Demetrios A. Julius, M.D. is Chief of Psychiatry Services at Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia; Visiting Professor of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine; and a faculty member of CSMHI. For over 20 years, he has worked in the field of political psychology and conflict resolution. He has participated in several Baltic workshops and is a veteran of the 1980-1986 American Psychiatric Association's Arab-Israeli workshops. He was a member of CSMHI's Turkish-Greek dialogue facilitating team.

Gillian Karp, media consultant to CSMHI, has a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from New York University, with an emphasis on disadvantaged and underserved populations.  She has studied HIV/AIDS, substance abuse treatment, homelessness and perceived futulity.  Since 1996 she has been producing and writing television news and documentaries, for which she has explored some of the same issues.

Joseph V. Montville founded the preventive diplomacy program at CSIS in 1994 and directed it until 2003. Before that, he spent 23 years as a diplomat with posts in the Middle East and North Africa. He also worked in the State Department's Bureaus of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and Intelligence and Research, where he was chief of the Near East Division and director of the Office of Global Issues. Mr. Montville defined the concept of Track II, nonofficial diplomacy. Educated at Lehigh, Columbia, and Harvard Universities, he is the editor of Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies (Lexington Books, 1990) and editor (with Vamik Volkan and Demetrios Julius) of The Psychodynamics of International Relationships (Lexington Books, 1990 [vol. I], 1991 [vol. II]). His chapter, "Religion and Peacemaking", appeared in Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution (eds. Raymond G. Helmick, S.J., and Rodney L. Peterson, Templeton Foundation Press, 2001).

Rita R. Rogers, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles and a member of CSMHI's Advisory Board. A specialist in political science as well, she is a veteran of the 1980-86 American Psychiatric Association's Arab-Israeli workshops and is well-known for her analysis of historical processes in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. A veteran of the Pugwash Conferences, she is also associated with the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

Lisa Romano is Managing Editor of CSMHI's journal, Mind and Human Interaction.  She has a B.A. in Visual Arts from Rutgers University and is currently completing a Master's Degree in English from the University of Virginia.

Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D. is Executive Director of the Critical Incident Analysis Group or CIAG.  He is also Associate Professor of Research, University of Virginia School of Medicine and serves as Conflict Resolution Specialist for the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group. In 1995, he served as Psychiatric Consultant to King Faisal Specialists Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a consultant to the Virginia Department of Corrections and the Virginia State Police. As a member of CSMHI's faculty, he participated in the Estonia, Kuwait, and Georgia projects.

Harold H. Saunders, Ph.D.,  a member of CSMHI's Advisory Board, is Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation in Washington, DC and Chairman and President of the International Institute of Sustained Dialogue, founded in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation in 2002. His distinguished career in diplomacy includes serving on the National Security Council (1961-74) and as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (1978-81). He flew on the Kissinger shuttles and participated in drafting the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. At the Dartmouth Conference (the longest continuous bilateral dialogue between American and Soviet, now Russian citizens, which began in 1960), he co-chaired a task force that brought together American and Soviet representatives and also the U.S.-China task force, which began in 1986.  Both groups continue to this day. A co-chair of CSMHI's psychopolitical dialogues in Estonia, Dr. Saunders is currently active in dialogues and actions in the Tajikistan and Caucasus regions of the former Soviet Union. The International Institute of Sustained Dialogue will be exploring developing centers for sustained dialogue in South Africa, South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, New Zealand, and North America.  Sustained dialogue groups are active at Princeton University, University of Virginia, and Dickinson College. He has been a member of The Carter Center's International Negotiation Network since 1990. His book, "The Other Walls: The Politics of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process" (1985) is a classic that addresses both diplomatic and psychological obstacles in the Arab-Israeli peace process. His most recent book is "A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts".

J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. is Associate Director of CSMHI and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. He is an expert in personality profile examination of leaders, and a specialist in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the psychology of prejudice and racism. His current area of research is the evolutionary history of violence in men and its connection to organized religion and is also studying empathy.  With Max Harris and Vamik Volkan, he co-authored "The Psychology of Western European Neo-Racism". Dr. Thomson participated in CSMHI's Estonia and Georgia projects.

Yuri V. Urbanovich, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia and has been the International Scholar at CSMHI since 1992.  He was formerly Associate Professor and Director of the Special Projects Task Force on Negotiations at the Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Soviet delegation at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament (1986-87). Dr. Urbanovich was and remains involved in developing an exchange program between UVa and St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and was a key participant in CSMHI's Baltic and Georgia projects.

Personnel

 Return to HOME PAGE