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 PERSONNEL

Center Faculty and Staff

Lisa Aronson, M.S.W., J.D., Ph.D.:   Director of CSMHI, Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, and editor of CSMHI's journal, Mind and Human Interaction.

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D.: Founder of CSMHI, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia; psychoanalyst; former president of the International Society of Political Psychology and former member of The Carter Center's International Negotiation Network. Currently the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA.

Ricardo Ainslie, Ph.D. :  Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin; Adjunct Faculty, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.

Maurice Apprey, Ph.D.: Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Dean for Student Support, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Richard T. Arndt, Ph.D.: President of Americans for UNESCO; Member of the Advisory Council of the National Peace Foundation; former president of the Fulbright Association; cultural diplomat for over twenty years.

Kutaiba S. Chaleby, M.D., FAPA (Kurt): Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, KidsPeace National Center for Kids in Crisis; Associate Editor, Arab Journal of Psychiatry.

Lyn Graybill, Ph.D.: Visiting Scholar, CSMHI; former lecturer in African Politics at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government, University of Virginia.

Ambassador (ret.) W. Nathaniel Howell, Ph.D.: John Minor Maury, Jr. Professor of Public Affairs; Director, Institute for Global Policy Research at the University of Virginia; CSMHI Resident Diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion of 1990.

Demetrios A. Julius, M.D.: Chief, Mental Health Service Line, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA; Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia.

Gillian Karp, Ph.D.: Media Consultant to CSMHI.

Joseph V. Montville : Diplomat in Residence, American University; Senior Fellow, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University; and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Lisa Romano: Managing Editor of Mind and Human Interaction, CSMHI, University of Virginia.

Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D.: Executive Director,  Critical Incident Analysis Group (C.I.A.G.), Associate Professor of Research, University of Virginia School of Medicine and faculty member, Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies Program,University of Virginia; FBI consultant on critical incidents and violent crime.

J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D.: Assistant Director, CSMHI; Psychiatrist, clinical faculty, University of Virginia.

Yuri V. Urbanovich, Ph.D.: International Scholar, CSMHI; Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia; former Associate Professor, Diplomatic Academy, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; participated in the Geneva Conference on Disarmament as expert in the Soviet delegation (1986-87).

Advisory Board

Chair:Carroll A. Weinberg, M.D. : Founder and Advisory Board member of the Mental Health Committee of the Liberty Center for the Treatment of Torture Survivors; Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine; Associate Scholar with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and with its Center on Terrorism, Counter Terrorism, and Homeland Security; and psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Wynnewood, PA.

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

Bankole Johnson, M.D.: Chair of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine , University of Virginia.

Robert M. Carey, M.D. : David A. Harrison III Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Dean Emeritus of the School of Medicine, University of Virginia.

Ali Gallagher, J.D. : Attorney, Feazell Rosenthal and Watson; former trauma nurse; former aide to Rep. Richard Gephardt on health issues; doctoral candidate in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin , candidate at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, Austin, Texas.

Margie S. Howell, M.S.N., R.N. : clinical specialist in adult psychiatry/ mental health nursing; former faculty at George Mason University, the American University of Beirut, and the University of Virginia; certified mediator.

Norman Itzkowitz, Ph.D. : Historian; Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University .

Joyce Neu, Ph.D.: Executive Director,  Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice , University of San Diego, California.  Previously with the  Carter Center , Atlanta, Georgia.

Rita R. Rogers, M.D. : Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine; political scientist.

Harold H. Saunders, Ph.D. : Director, International Affairs, Kettering Foundation ; President of the International Institute of Sustained Dialogue; former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; former member of The Carter Center's International Negotiation Network .

International Associates

Ambassador (ret.) Gunduz Aktan (Turkey)
Yishai Almog, Ph.D. (Israel)
Gabriele Ast, M.D. (Germany)
Wilhelm Burian, M.D. (Austria)
Abdulkadir Cevik, M.D. (Turkey)
Valeriy Fadeev, Ph.D. (Russia)
Manana Gabashvili, Ph.D. (Georgia)
Birgitta Johansson, M.D. (Sweden)
Jaan Kaplinski, Ph.D. (Estonia)
Eduard Klain, M.D. (Croatia)
Ambassador Halina Kobeckaite, Ph.D. (Lithuania)
Johannes Lehtonen, M.D. (Finland)
Frederico Menezes, M.D. (Brazil)
Rena Moses, M.D. (Israel)
Alexander Obolonsky, Ph.D. (Russia)
David Ratnavale, M.D. (Sri Lanka)
Stanislov Roschin, Ph.D. (Russia)
Nodar Sarjveladze, Ph.D. (Georgia)
Blema Steinberg, Ph.D. (Canada)
Jouni Suistola, Ph.D. (Finland)
Endel Talvik, Ph.D. (Estonia)
Peeter Vares, Ph.D. (Estonia)
Adeline van Waning, M.D. (Netherlands)

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