Geisinger Health Systems of Danville, PA, is planning a national conference for May 13, 2008 on "Combat Stress Injuries (PTSD): Care of Rural Veterans and Their Families" Click here for more information about that conference. The conference is designed for health and allied health providers, social workers, mental health counselors, veteran advocates, educators, researchers and policy makers. There are no prerequisites. The registration fee is extraordinarily in-expensive ($85), and the list of speakers and their bios follows:
Faculty
Guest Faculty
Charles Figley BS, MS, Ph.D. |
Dr. Figley directs the award-winning Florida State University FSU Traumatology Institute and Psychosocial Stress Research and Development Program. The Institute was recognized in 2000 as the best program of its kind by the University Continuing Education Association. He is a Fulbright Fellow and Professor, College of Social Work at FSU. He is also a psychologist and family therapist. Professor Figley received both graduate degrees from the Pennsylvania State University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii, all in the interdisciplinary field of human development. He has been editor of a number of journals (e.g., the Founding editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress) and book series (e.g., the Innovations in Psychology Book Series with Taylor & Francis. His current editorships include Editor (founder), Traumatology, the International Journal, 1995-present and Editor (founder), Routledge ( formerly Brunner/Mazel ) Psychosocial Stress Book Series, 1983-present. He has written more than 200 scholarly works including 19 books mostly on stress. (Editor's Note: Figley is the editor of Mapping Trauma and Its Wake: Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars.) |
Michael Hwang MD |
Associate Chief of Staff, Mental Health VA Medical Center Wilkes Barre, PA and Associate Professor of Psychiatry Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey |
Evelyn Llewellyn Psy.D. |
Co-Founder Executive Director Director of Family and Youth Programs Life Matters New York, NY |
Michael Lonski Ph.D. |
Chief of Mental Health Clinical Services 244th Medical Services New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs Captain, New York State Guard New York, NY |
Keith Martin |
WBRE Veteran TV Anchor Retired National Guard Brigadier General Former Pennsylvania Director of Homeland Security Wilkes Barre, PA |
William Nash MD |
William P. Nash, M.D., is an active duty Captain in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, with nearly thirty years of active military service. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, in Chicago, and of psychiatry residency training at Naval Medical Center, San Diego. In addition to leading two Navy SPRINT crisis response teams, he has directed two Navy psychiatry residency training programs, and has served as the Director of Clinical Services of the hospital ship USNS MERCY. CAPT Nash has been stationed with the Marine Corps since 2000, including deploying to Iraq in 2004 with the 1st Marine Division as a psychiatrist embedded with ground combat forces. He was awarded a bronze star medal for his service in Iraq in support of combat operations there. Since October, 2005, CAPT Nash has been stationed at Headquarters, Marine Corps, in Quantico, Virginia, where he directs and coordinates combat/operational stress control policies and programs for the United States Marine Corps. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and has co-edited a book on combat stress injuries released in late 2006. |
Edward Rendell BA, JD |
He is an Army Veteran and Pennsylvanias 45th Governor who began a second term of office on January 16, 2007, following a landslide re-election victory. As Governor, he serves as chief executive of the nations 6th-most-populous state and oversees a $27.5 billion budget. He is building on his efforts to make government more responsible to the public, and more responsive to the publics needs. He has cut wasteful spending and improved efficiency to save more than $1 billion and is pursuing a legislative agenda that includes commonsense political reforms to put progress ahead of partisanship. |
Steven Silver Ph.D. |
PA Army National Guard Former Director, PTSD Treatment Program VA Medical Center, Coatesville, PA |
Jessica Wright BA, MA |
Major General Jessica L. Wright is the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania. In this State cabinet-level position, General Wright, headquartered at Fort Indiantown Gap, is responsible for command, control, and supervision of all Air and Army National Guard units allocated to the State of Pennsylvania. She is also responsible for six (6) state-owned veterans' homes, Scotland School for Veterans' Children, and programs for Pennsylvanias 1.3 million veterans. --- The objectives of the conference are that -- at the completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
To register for the conference, please click this link. |