Dr. Norman Miller is a psychiatrist in East Lansing, Michigan and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Covenant Medical Center and DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital. He received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and has been in practice for 41 years. He is one of 6 doctors at Covenant Medical Center and one of 26 at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital who specialize in Psychiatry.

Addiction, Psychiatric, and Neurological Expertise, Expert Review, Reports, and Testimony, Independent Medical Evaluations Attorney-Medical Malpractice, Professional Discipline, Medical Care Fraud Board Certification in Psychiatry, Neurology, Addiction Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry Expert Evaluations and Recommendations Specific Areas of Expertise: Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Effects of Drugs and Alcohol on Brain and Behavior, Adverse Effects of Prescription Opioid/ Narcotic, Benzodiazepines, Psychotropic Medications Competence and Criminal Responsibility, Probate Contests, Disability Claims

Kathy Sexton-Radek, completed her Doctorate of Philosophy in the area of Clinical Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL in 1988. She interned at Rush Medical Center as a Behavioral Medicine Resident. Dr. Sexton-Radek has been in Academia for 26 years developing and teaching undergraduate and graduate Psychology courses. Her private practice work as Director of Behavioral Health and Wellness for the last 26 years has focused on assessment and treatment in areas of sleep disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, somatic symptoms disorders and Psychological factors affecting medical illness disorders. She is a Certified Behavioral Sleep Medicine specialist and has Sleep Board eligibility.

Sleep medicine, pain management, assessment and behavioral medicine/health psychology

Adi Jaffe received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010. Even before he graduated his name had become known through his online and academic writing. His views on addiction and his research on the topic have been published in dozens of journals and online publications and he has appeared on several television shows and documentaries discussing current topics in addiction and the problem of addiction as a whole. He also teaches courses at UCLA and the California State University in Long Beach that address addiction specifically or biological psychology and behavioral neuroscience more generally. His view is a holistic one, drawing from the best and most recent research to bring as complete a solution to addiction clients. At Alternatives, he serves as the Director of Research, education, and innovation and is in charge of client monitoring, technology solutions, and data collections and outcomes research. His goal is to make Alternatives the best treatment program there is.

His goal is to help push the field of addiction treatment forward to make treatment more accessible and ultimately more successful.

Rocco de Filippis completed his MD and PhD from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. He holds a Master’s degree and he improved respectively in Bipolar Disorders and Addictive behavior in the years 2011/2012. He currently works and at the Institute of Psychopathology-Rome as a Psychiatrist and Addictive Medicine, and up to now presented as scientific coordinator of CME and Master of Addictive Behaviors; he currently publishes on Bipolar Disorders with high specialization on rapid cycling;he is also an official candidate at the Psychoanalytic Italian Society of the First Italian Center of Rome, and member of IPSO(International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization). He had a oral speech at Translational Medicine 2014 in Las Vegas on QTc Prolungation and Psychotropic Drugs.

Addiction Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Bipolar Disorders, Addictive Behaviours

Dr. Underwood is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in several states and Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider (CSOTP) and serves as the Clinical Director for SequelCare of Arizona. He has served as an Executive Clinical Officer for several large residential treatment, juvenile justice and criminal justice programs for adolescents and adults with sex offending, severe mental health, substance use, trauma and disruptive behavioral disorders. He has worked extensively with residential and juvenile justice programs and has been recognized by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) as one of the leading program innovators for juvenile justice and community treatment programs. Dr. Underwood has held a number of policy oriented research, academic, clinical and consulting positions over his career with federal, state and private agencies for research, program design, development, implementation and evaluation of services. He has published over 50 refereed journal articles and 17 treatment manuals on sex offending, mental health, substance use, trauma needs of females, forensic and cultural needs of persons involved in the juvenile justice and mental health systems. His most recent books include Counseling Adolescents Competently (in production by Sage Publishers) and Adolescents in Conflict (Taylor Made Publishing).

Juvenile Justice and Metal Health,Screening and Assessing the Mental Health Needs of Adolescents, Residential Models of Care for At-Risk Adolescents, Program Evaluation and Design

Igor Elman, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was trained at the National Institute of Mental Health and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry with a subspecialty certification in Addiction Psychiatry. Presently, he heads a clinical research lab, focused on the role of reward and motivational systems in pathophysiology of severe neuropsychiatric disorders, including addictions, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. He is a past recipient of NIDA K23 and R01 Awards. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychology Research and Behavioral Management.

Reward and motivational systems in pathophysiology of severe neuropsychiatric disorders, including addictions, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder

Ni Fan, M.D., Ph.D. got her ph.D. from Louisiana State University Health Science Center at 2009 and continued her postdoc training at Yale University School of Medicine from 2009 to 2012. Currently she is the vice director of the neuropsychiatric research institute of Guangzhou Brain Hospital, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. Her research was funded by National Nature Science foundation of China.

Neuropsychiatry

Elizabeth Halpern is a Psychologist and a Frigate-Commander of the Brazilian Navy, a specialist in Medical Psychology, a Master in Collective Health, and a PhD in Mental Health. She dedicated 28 years in the Brazilian Navy hospitals and outpatient clinics, working as a chief and therapist, from prevention to rehabilitation, giving lectures and courses to military personnel, assisting families, couples, adolescents, and children, in groups and individually. As the Chief of the Center for Chemical Dependency during the last decade, she dedicated her practice towards addiction, and published 14 articles related to drinking practices in the workplace. Presently, she is the Chief of the Health Department of the Central Navy Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Medical Psychology, Collective Health and Mental Health

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Substance abuse,Neuropsychiatry, Stroke

Elkoussi is a professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology in Assiut College of Medicine since 1984. He was the Department Chairman in the years 1996-1999 and 2005-2007. He completed his PhD in 1972. In 1982 & 1984 he was granted postdoctoral fellowships in the University Of Florida College Of Pharmacy. From 1990 to 1994 he worked as a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Drug Design and Delivery and Center for Drug Discovery, University of Florida and he also worked as pharmacologist in some pharmaceutical research companies in USA and pharmaceutical industrial companies in Egypt as a regulatory affairs manager. In 2002 he got a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He had published over 50 manuscripts in international journals and presented several lectures and research work in more than 60 international scientific conferences. He also supervised several Masters and PhD theses on different topics in experimental and clinical pharmacology and toxicology. For the last 2 decades he had conducted and supervised several research studies and projects on the topic of solvent inhalant abuse, causes patterns and significance in different countries.

Drug abuse, Drug design &delivery, Drug interactions, Biological evaluation of drug activity , harmacokinetics, pharmacotherapy, pharmacovigilance as well as phytotherapy