[No Freud No Prozac - Instinct to heal]

POSITIONS

2007	Author : "Anticancer – A new way of life" - How the natural defenses of the body can help prevent and boost the treatment of cancer, published by Viking (Part of the Penguin Group) in the US, and Penguin Press in the UK, Scribe in Australia and New Zealand and Harper Collins in Canada
2004	“Healing without Freud or Prozac, natural approaches to curing stress, anxiety and depression”, published by Rodale. 1.3 million copies sold worldwide, 28 translations.
From 2001	Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
1999-2001	Medical Director, Center for Complementary Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside Hospital
	Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
1997-2001	Chief, Division of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside Hospital
	Director, Behavioral Sciences Curriculum, Internal Medicine and Family Practice Residency Programs
1997-1999	Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
	Director of Psychiatric Services, Center for Complementary Medicine
1996	Coordinator, Geriatric Consultation-Liaison, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
1993-1996	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Services of Consultation-Liaison and Geriatric Psychiatry
1991-1996	Co-Director, Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
1990-1996	Adjunct Research Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

EDUCATION & TRAINING

1990-1993	Residency in Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh (including chief resident in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry)
1990	Ph.D, Cognitive Science in Medicine (Cognitive Neuroscience), School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
1985-87	Fellowship, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
1984-85	Bi-disciplinary internship, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Canada
1983-84	M.D., School of Medicine, Laval University, Canada
1978-1982	Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université de Paris, France (Pre-med and basic sciences)
1977	Baccalaur ?at with honors, Mathematics & Physics, Académie de Paris,

CLINICAL CERTIFICATIONS

2000	Certified Instructor, EMDR International Association
1995	Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1985	M.D. License, State of Pennsylvania
	M.D. License, Paris, France
1984	Licenciate of the Medical Council of Canada

AWARDS

2005	William Cooper award - Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh
2002	Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society Presidential Award for Outsanding Career in Psychiatry
2000	UPMC Shadyside Hospital Recognition Award
1995	Mead Johnson Award, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
1994	Young Investigator Award, National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders
	Research Scientist Career Development Award, National Institute of Mental Health
1993	Fellow of the Summer Institute of the McDonnell-Pew Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience
1992	Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists
1991	Outstanding Resident in Psychiatry Award, National Institute of Mental Health
1989	Lauréat de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris
1988	Individual Fellowship Award, National Institute of Mental Health
1984	Award of Best Paper, Joint National Congress of the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001	EMDR Institute Trainer
2000	Instructor, EMDR-International Association, Level I & II Training, Univ. of Pittsburgh and McGill University
1999	Workshop Coordinator, "Recognizing and managing somatization" Society for General Internal Medicine, 22nd Meeting, April 27-30, San Francisco, CA
1998	Workshop Coordinator, "Recognizing and managing somatization" Society for General Internal Medicine, 21th Meeting, April 22-25, Chicago, IL
	Workshop Coordinator, "Medical Aspects of Informed Consent," Pennsylvania’s Governor Conference on Aging Issues, Hershey, PA
1997	Workshop Coordinator, "Treating Somatization Disorders," Society for Teachers in Family Medicine, North East Regional Meeting, Oct. 16-19, Pittsburgh, PA
	Workshop Coordinator, "The Somatizing Patient," Society for General Internal Medicine, 20th Meeting, May 1-3, Washington, DC
1993-1997	Instructor, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Lecture Series
1996	Supervisor of clinical fellows in Geriatric Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
1995-96	Mentor, NIMH Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Training Program in Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
	Clinical and research mentor of residents in General Psychiatry, research track, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
1994-96	Instructor in General Psychiatry, Family Practice Residency Training Program, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
	Instructor in General Psychiatry, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
1993-96	Supervision of Honors-Track Cognitive Science undergraduate student
1994	Instructor, Integrated Case Studies Course, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
	Instructor in General Psychiatry, Second Year Curriculum, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
1992	Organized and taught two-month weekly seminar on Neural Network Modeling for Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychology Research, Department of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco, VA Medical Center
	Co-director and faculty of course Introduction to Neural Modeling in Psychiatry, 145^th Mechanisms of Cognition", Research Scientist Development Award (K21), NIMH
1991	Director and faculty of invited course Neural Networks in Psychiatry, Hopital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
	Co-director and faculty of course A Primer on Neural Modeling in Psychiatry, 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC
1990	Co-director and faculty of course A Primer on Neural Modeling in Psychiatry, 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY
1989	Co-director and faculty of symposium Neural Networks in Psychiatry, 142nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA
1989-90	Organized and taught graduate and advanced undergraduate course Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1982	Founder of Teaching and Research Center for the Application of Personal Computers to Medicine ; instructor of tutorial course Introduction to Computer Programming, Faculté de Médecine, Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

RESEARCH SUPPORT

2000-2002	Principal Investigator, Pilot Study of Electro-Acupuncture in Post Operative Pain, Shadyside Hospital Foundation
	Principal Investigator, The Role of a Same Suppository in Mood Enhancement, Shadyside Hospital Foundation
2000-2001	Principal Investigator, Group Treatment of Somatoform Disorders, Beckwith Foundation
1999-2001	Principal Investigator, Mechanism of EMDR : A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study. Competitive Research Grant, Shadyside Hospital Foundation
1997-2000	Co-Investigator, HRSA Grant for Residency Training in Internal Medicine, CFDA 93.884, (PI : Gary Tabas, M.D.)
1994-1999	Principal Investigator, Neuromodulation of the mechanisms of cognition, Research Scientist Career Development Award, NIMH
1993-1998	Co-Investigator, with Jay McClelland (PI), project 4 of Center Grant Behavioral Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Research Center (Overall PI : Edward Stricker, Ph.D), NIMH, competing continuation
1994-1997	Principal Investigator, Joseph LeDoux Co-PI, Towards a Model of Processing in the Fear Response Network, McDonnell-Pew Foundation grant-in-aid
	Principal Investigator, Functional MR Imaging of Limbic Structures, NARSAD
1991-1996	Co-Investigator, with Jonathan Cohen, M.D., Ph.D (PI), Mechanisms of Context Processing in Schizophrenia, FIRST Award, NIMH
	Co-Principal Investigator, with Jonathan Cohen, M.D., Ph.D, Project II of Program Project Towards a Model of Normal and Disordered Cognition (Program Director : James McClelland, Ph.D), NIMH
1991-1992	Principal Investigator, Deficits in the Internal Representation of Context in Schizophrenia, Seed Money Award, Center for Neuroscience and Schizophrenia, University of Pittsburgh
1988-1990	Principal Investigator, Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Emotional Disorders, Individual Fellowship Award, NIMH MH09696-02

SERVICE AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

2002

Advisory Board Member - OECD Program Learning Sciences and Brain Research : Implications for Education Policies and Practices

1991-2000

Founding member (one of 7) of the Board of Directors of the U.S. branch of Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. The international organization was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in October 1999.

1999

Volunteer consultant for "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in Kosovo : Psychological and psychiatric treatment of traumatic stress conditions

Consultant for the development of practice guidelines on Posttraumatic Stress conditions for the Clinical Guidelines field book of the "Médecins Sans Frontieres" international network

1998

Volunteer consultant for "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in Tajikistan : Psychiatric services in rehabilitated state institutions

Reviewer for the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines on Delirium

1997

Exploratory mission with "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in India : Evaluation of post-traumatic stress conditions among Tibetan children in the refugee settlements.

1996

Chairperson, Special Emphasis Panel on Neural Basis of Emotions, National Institute of Mental Health.

Volunteer consultant with "Médecins Sans Frontieres" : Mental Health approaches to street children shelters and juvenile detention centers in Guatemala City.

1991-1993

In-home psychiatric evaluations of house-bound and geriatric patients (over 200 complete geriatric evaluations).

1991

Volunteer as a general practitioner with "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in Kurdistan (Northern Irak) in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

1990

Ad-hoc reviewer, Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Cognition and Emotion, Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Machine Learning.

1988-1989

Founder and captain of the joint Carnegie Mellon - University of Pittsburgh squash team. In the second year of existence the team won the city squash championship in its league.

1980-1983

Founder and General Secretary of an independent student union at Necker-EM School of Medicine focused on curriculum development and student education. In three years, this new union won 80% of the student seats on the school’s board of directors.