President & Founder of the PTSD Association
 Ute Lawrence-Fisher is the CEO and founder of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Association. She is also the founder and director of the Performance Enhancement Center in London, Canada, which offers seminars, workshops and speaking engagements on discovering and reaching one’s potential.
She is uniquely poised to present a new perspective within the field of PTSD, especially important with increased diagnoses of PTSD in patients returning from war, natural disasters, 9/11 or suffering from other extreme life-threatening events.
She has experienced PTSD in her own life. She was one of the survivors of the most horrific car-pile up in Canadian history in 1999.Eighty seven vehicles were involved in this tragedy that killed 8 people. The trauma brought personal distress and the end of her twenty-two years as a magazine publisher.
Stan Fisher - Co-Founder
Dr. Sandra Fisman
Lynn Blumas
Robin Honey
Dr. Robin Gallardi
Barry Johnson
Keith Trussler
Jo-Ann Fisher
Valorie Scatcherd
Our Clinical advisors
Dr. Ruth Lanius is a Psychiatrist at the London Health Science Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario in London , Ontario . Her area of research expertise is in neuroimaging, in particular fMRI. She is currently investigating the neural circuitry involved in PTSD.
Dr. Frank Putnam is Director of the Mayerson Center for Safe & Healthy Children and Professor of Pediatrics & Child Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati Ohio . He has published widely on topics in the areas of Psychology, Neuroanatomy, Adult Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry including sexual abuse in children. Dr. Putnam is the recipient of the Morton Prince Scientific Achievement Award 1985, Cornelia Wilbur Clinical Service Award 1990, United States Public Health Service Medal of Commendation 1992, Pierre Janet Scientific Writing Award 1993, and was Richter Visiting Professor of Child Psychiatry at Indiana University in 2000.
Dr. Allan Schore is a Neuropsychoanalyst with a private Psychotherapy practice in Los Angeles , California . Dr. Schore has been widely published on topics in the areas of Clinical Child Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology.
Dr. Eric Vermetten is a Psychiatrist/Senior Researcher at University Medical Center/Central Military Hospital, Utrecht , The Netherlands. His areas of specialization include Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Psychiatry, and Psychiatry/Clinical Neuroscience. He has been widely published on a variety of topics include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Dr. Sandra Fisman is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She is currently Professor and Chair of the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Department of Psychiatry in London , Ontario , and cross appointed in the academic university Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine at UWO. Her clinical interests include difficult to treat children and adolescents with developmental and behavioural disorders. Dr. Fisman has been published widely on the effects of handicapped children on other family members. She is currently engaged in a three-year prevention and early intervention study in the school system for adolescent females with mood and related disorders funded by Women's Health Council of Ontario.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and Clinical Director of the Trauma Center in Boston, MA.
Dr Nick Coupland is Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. His clinical and research interests are in PTSD, depression and anxiety disorders, particularly using neuroimaging to investigate alterations in brain structure, chemistry and function.
Dr. Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is a Senior Psychiatrist and the founder and Medical Director of The Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as among America’s 10 top psychiatric facilities. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Yale University School of Medicine where he did his residency. After a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, he spent 5 years at UCLA and the West LA VA Medical Center. He is the author of over 50 papers and book chapters on sleep disorders, consultation-liaison psychiatry, dissociation, dissociative disorders, and trauma disorders. He has written chapters on Treatment of Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue for the American Psychiatric Association’s book, Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders and is co-author with Richard Kluft, MD of a chapter on Treatment of Dissociative Disorders and Depersonalization in the 2007 edition of Gabbard's Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. He is co-author, with Frank W. Putnam, M.D., of the section on Dissociative Disorders in Sadock & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eighth Edition. He lectures frequently on these dissociation and trauma to regional, national, and international groups. He is the founder and director of the Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt Hospital including a 20-bed inpatient unit, a day hospital program, an outpatient program, a postdoctoral fellowship program, and research, consultation and teaching components. Dr. Loewenstein is co-chair of the American Psychiatric Association President’s Task Force on the Biopsychosocial Consequences of Childhood Trauma. In 2008, he was awarded the Cornelia Wilbur award for his contributions to clinical studies of trauma and dissociation by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He also presented the Pierre Janet annual award lecture to the same organization at their annual meeting in 2008.
Dr. Clare Pain is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital, Co-project director of the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project (TAAPP) www.utoronto.ca/ethiopia, and Coordinator of the University of Toronto-Addis Ababa Collaboration Program. Her focus is on the assessment and treatment of patients with psychological trauma and trans-cultural aspects of psychological trauma. Together with Pat Ogden and Kekuni Minton she published "Trauma and the Body: a Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy" Norton 2006.
Dr. Dan Baker
Dr. Constance Dalenberg
Dr. David Wright, Psychiatrist, Homewood PTSD Clinic
Advisory Committee
Suzanne Harrill
Susan M Hunter
Lynn Osmond
Kathy Longo
Bev Robinson
Allison Graham
Samira El Hndi
India Hathaway
Caroline Bonham
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