Science Committee

African PTSD Relief Now works broadly with a wide variety of professional and independent researchers in organizing and executing its research functions.

The Science Committee guides ongoing research to evaluate the prevalence of PTSD in our projects. They also standardize PTSD evaluation tests (such as the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist, PCL) so that they are properly understood and scaled for each project in order to provide maximum ease of large-scale evaluation of PTSD.

Brian Rees, MD., MA Public Health,: Colonel, ret. US Army with five tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, primary author of two articles in Journal of Traumatic Stress on reductions in PTSD due to practice of the TM technique.

TURN ON IMAGES to see Dr James O'Halloran PhD

Dr. James O’Halloran, Ph.D., Psychology, Univ. of California, Irvine.: 25 years work with U.S. National Institutes of Health on committees and on implementation of grants.

Dr. Carole Bandy, Ph.D.: Professor of Psychology, Norwich University, Vermont, USA.

TURN ON IMAGES to see Dr. Vincent Sezibera

Dr. Vincent Sezibera, Ph. D., Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium., Head of Psychology Department, University of Rwanda, with a specialty in PTSD.

William Stixrud, Ph.D. educational psychology, neuropsychologist since 1985, Director of Stixrud Group, Adjunct Faculty, Children’s National Medical Center since 1986, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Dr. David O'Connell, Ph.D. Temple University in Psychological Studies. M.S. (postdoctoral) clinical psychopharmacology. Clinical and forensic psychologist. Editor of Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care.

TURN ON IMAGES to see Dr Michael Dillbeck

Dr. Michael Dillbeck, Ph.D., Purdue: Research professor, Maharishi University of Management, USA.

Dr. Pat Barrett, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, Licensed Health services Provider, The Union Institute.

Dr. John Fagan, Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell; $2.5 million in grants received from NIH and National Cancer Institute. Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute. Founder of Global ID Group. Research interest in genetics of PTSD.