Ulrich Schnyder
Switzerland
President ISTSS
Ulrich Schnyder, M.D., psychiatrist and licensed psychotherapist. Professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Head, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Zurich. Research activities are currently focused on different aspects of traumatic stress research such as epidemiology and neurobiology, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for PTSD, and resilience to stress. Past President, European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). Past President, International Federation for Psychotherapy (IFP). President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 2009-2010.

“Treatment” Position:

In addition to trauma-focused approaches, psychotherapies for trauma-related mental disorders, should aim at promoting resilience. Well-Being Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and the mindfulness-based approaches appear to be promising conceptualizations of such treatment strategies.

Dean Ajduković
Chair // Croatia
Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Society for Psychological Assistance, Zagreb, Croatia; past president of ESTSS (2003-2005).

Dean Ajdukovic, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and Head of the Chair of Social Psychology with extensive experience in working with refugees, community-based psychosocial interventions, and domestic violence. He directed several major international research projects and published over 100 papers. He serves as international consultant on trauma and violence, psychosocial program development and evaluation, community crisis interventions.

Stevan Hobfoll
USA
The Judd and Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor and Chair Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush Medical College Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.; Senior Fellow, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa Israel Member, Mental Health Subcommittee of the (U.S.) National Biodefense Science Board

Dr. Stevan Hobfoll has authored and edited 11books, including Traumatic Stress and Stress, Culture and Community, and over 200 journal articles and book chapters. He has received several lifetime achievement awards, as well as awards for his public mental health interventions in inner-city women’s lives. He is currently the Judd and Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Rush Medical College in Chicago and a Senior Fellow of the Center for National Security Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. Encyclopaedia Brittanica cited his book, The Ecology of Stress, as one of the leading contributions to human knowledge. He is a member of the Disaster Mental Health Subcommittee of the United States National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB). His recent work on mass casualty intervention was designated as one of the most influential contributions to psychiatry.

Creating, Sustaining and Promoting Resource Caravan Passageways:
A Public Health Battle Against Trauma-Toxic Environments

Resource caravan passageways are the environmental conditions that support, foster, enrich and protect the resources of individuals, families, and organizations, or that detract, undermine, obstruct, or impoverish people’s resource reservoirs. Public mental health must be a public watchdog, must create resource enriching environments, and must intervene in the social circumstances that undermine personal, social and material resource accumulation, and that contribute to resource loss, in particular where environments are trauma toxic.

Miranda Olff
Netherlands
President ESTSS
Dr., Assoc. Professor in Psychotraumatology Head Center for Psychological Trauma, Dept of Psychiatry Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam

Miranda Olff, PhD, is Associate Professor in the field of psychotrauma. Her major areas of research have focused on the psychological and biological responses to traumatic stress and (early) interventions. Research includes randomized controlled trials on the effects of debriefing, of early trauma interventions, and of different forms of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in PTSD patients. Psychobiological research includes neuroimaging and neuroendocrine studies of PTSD and the effects of therapy on neurobiological variables. Further research includes large study on psychopathology of injured patients admitted to the trauma unit, disaster related research, epidemiological surveys on trauma and PTSD, gender differences in PTSD, the effects of oxytocin, the impact of threat and personal protection on politicians, and the coordination of a large EU funded project on post disaster psychosocial care all over Europe.
Miranda Olff currently is head of the Center for Psychological Trauma at the department of Psychiatry at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. Miranda Olff has a visiting professorship in Norway. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Traumatic Stress. She is the current president of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS).

Bruce Shapiro
USA
Dart Center // www.dartcenter.org
Executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York;  and contributing editor at the Nation. 

An award-winning reporter and commentator on human rights and criminal justice issues, Bruce Shapiro runs the Dart Centre, an organisation dedicated to  encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. Since the mid-1990s, he has covered terrain ranging from inner-city neighbourhoods to the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, and has documented the intersection of politics and violence on issues from capital punishment to combat trauma. He is the author of  Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America, and co-author of Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. He also teaches investigative journalism at Yale University.

Thomas Weber
Germany // www.trauma-info.de
Certified Psychologist, Management of TraumaTransformConsult
He led the aftercare on behalf of the accident ensurers after the rampage of Emsdetten and Winnenden. Development of the Structural Interdiciplinary Aftercare Concept (SIN).