Conference Speakers 2007
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Click on a speaker’s name to go to the speaker’s page: Terry Argast Ph.D. | James Bonnet | Thomas Brod M.D. | Valdeane Brown Ph.D. | Bernard Brucker | Ray Caamano | Dr. Thomas F. Collura | John W. DeLuca Ph.D. | John Demos | Starr Eaddy Ph.D. | Dr. Pamela Enders | H. John Fisher | Sebern Fisher | S. David Freud | Jay Gunkelman | Tina Huang Ph.D. | Karen Jacobs | Rob Kall M.Ed. | Stephen Larsen Ph.D. | Dr. Michael Linden Ph.D. | John Lowan | Senia Maymin | Peter McGugan | Peter McGugan | robert melillo | Ron Minson M.D. | Ed B O'Malley Ph.D. | Siegfried Othmer Ph.D. | Sue Othmer | Karl Pribram | Molly Jo Raaymakers M.A. | Allen L Roland Ph.D. | Dr. Beverly Rubik Ph.D. | Bill Scott | Kirby Seid | Pamela Jaye Smith | Chris Snook | Richard Soutar Ph.D. | Dr. Diane Roberts Stoler Ed.D. | Tom Stone | Paul G Swingle Ph.D. | Rae Tattenbaum | Rae Tattenbaum | Hershel Toomim | Colleen Turner Ph.D. | Jonathan Walker M.D. | Jerry E Wesch Ph.D. | Nancy E. White Ph.D. | Jeffrey Wilson Ph.D. |
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Starting in 1972 with the first State Hospital based biofeedback laboratory, and then specializing in EEG for decades, Jay is an experienced Clinical and research EEG/qEEG specialist and consultant. Author of many scientific papers, and a mounting list of books, his depth of understanding of the mind/brain's function is helpful in communicating the underlying mechanisms and systems of the brain, mind, and consciousness. Jay is a popular lecturer world-wide, and he has occupied leadership positions in the field's professional societies. Now with Q-Pro, an international EEG/qEEG services group, he provides services world-wide.
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My whole life has been a quest to rediscover and share a great truth I knew as a child ~ that beneath our deepest fears lies a state of love and soul consciousness that also lies beyond time and space.That quest included 5 years as a Navy carrier pilot flying supersonic jets ~ 10 years as a successful stock broker with a major wall steet firm and 30 years as a psychotherapist facilitating transformation and jump starting hearts in the process. My ultimate dream was to share that truth I knew as a child with the world ~ which I now do through my published books, monthly radio show and daily weblog which now reaches over 60 countries.
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Dr. Beverly Rubik is a leading scientist internationally renowned for her research exploring frontier areas of science and medicine. She specializes in subtle energies in health and healing. In 1979, Dr. Rubik earned her doctorate in biophysics at the University of California at Berkeley. She has published over 60 papers in scientific and medical journals and 2 books.
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PAMELA JAYE SMITH is a mythologist, writer, consultant, speaker and award-winning producer-director with twenty-five years in media. She is the author of "INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters Through the Eight Classic Centers of Motivation" [the chakras]. Her company MYTHWORKS™ offers ‘Applied Mythology for more Powerful Reality’. Clients and credits include Microsoft, Paramount Pictures, Disney, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, Marseille France, GM, Boeing, Pepperdine, Screenwriting EXPO, film festivals, and the US Army (during the Clinton administration).
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Performance coach Rae Tattenbaum earned her BA and completed advanced study in Theatre Arts at Hofstra University. She also has an MSW from the Columbia University School of Social Work.
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Bernard S. Brucker, Ph.D., ABPP
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Rob is the organizer founder of the Winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology and StoryCon Meetings. He is president of Futurehealth, Inc., Publisher of www.OpEdNews.com and has interests in Positive Psychology as well as being involved in the field of biofeedback/neurofeedback since 1972.
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John has been a meditation leader in both eastern and western disciplines (including Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, Vipassana, Contemplative, and Zen) for over 30 years. He has presented meditation workshops in Europe, Asia, and across North America. Using and designing EEG and Biofeedback technology since 1972, John studied with, assisted and co-taught with Anna Wise, a recognized pioneer, author, and authority on brainwaves and consciousness. He is currently a certified Neurotherapist and has taught neurotherapy and meditation integration at Brainmaster Technologies, the Esalen Institute, and the Mayo Clinic. A lively presenter and workshop leader, John has taught groups in meditation, communication, problem solving, leadership, and parenting.
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Ron B. Minson, M.D. received his medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine and is board-certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. His general medical background includes serving as a Peace Corps physician, family physician and Medical Director of fifty physicians at a metropolitan neighborhood health center. After completing his psychiatric residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, he established a private practice. He served as Chief of Psychiatry for Presbyterian Medical Center and Director of Behavioral Sciences at Mercy Hospital in Denver.
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Paul G. Swingle, Ph.D. was Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa prior to moving to Vancouver. A Fellow of the Canadian psychological Association, Dr. Swingle was Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1991 to 1998 and during the same time period was Associate Attending Psychologist at McLean Hospital where he was also Coordinator of the Clinical Psychophysiology Service. Dr. Swingle was Chairman of the Faculty of Child Psychology at Ottawa University from 1972 to 1977 and Clinical Supervisor from 1987 to 1997. He is a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia and is Certified in Biofeedback and neurotherapy.
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Clinical Psychologist for 30 years, now retired. Co-founder of Southern California Society for Ericksonian Psychotherapy & Hypnosis. Author/Co-Author of Rapid Age Regression & Now You Wanted a Trance Demonstrated Today. Taught many hypnosis training workshops and a frequent presenter at the Milton Erickson Congresses.
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Thomas M. Brod, MD, DFAPA is a faculty member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA. He has chaired the course on Neurofeedback at the American Psychiatric Association annual meetings for the past four years. In late 2005-early 2006 he organized and chaired two conferences for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles tied to their exhibition entitited, "Ecstasy: In and About Altered States". In May 2007, he will chair a symposium on psilocybin research at this year's American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.
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Dr. Valdeane W. Brown is an internationally recognized "trainer of trainers", who teaches and consults widely on personal and organizational transformation and computer systems. With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a background in math, physics, computer programming, philosophy, yoga, meditation and martial arts, Dr. Brown brings a presence and precision to his work, informed by a deep sense of compassion, a profound facility with energy dynamics and commitment to revealing the elegant simplicity inherent in learning and transformation. Developer of the Five Phase Model and co-creator with his wife Sue of the Period 3 Approach to Clinical Neurofeedback, Dr. Brown has realized his vision of a truly comprehensive training system in NeuroCARE Pro©, which he personally designed and implemented, meticulously integrating it with Sue’s practical wisdom and experience. Dr. Brown provides comprehensive training, consultation and supervision to fellow professionals and healers as well as his clients, and is frequently called upon by colleagues to assist in resolving difficult clinical situations. His vision in bringing NeuroCARE Pro® to the world is to make personal transformation effortless and available to all.
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Tom Collura has over 30 years experience as a biomedical engineer and neurophysiologist. He has conducted clinical research and development in evoked potentials, microelectronics, human factors, EEG mapping for epilepsy, and neurofeedback. He received undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Biology (1973) from Brown University, and received the Ph.D. (1978) in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. His graduate work focused on real-time visual and auditory evoked potentials and selective attention in a vigilance task. He spent 8 years with AT&T Bell Laboratories as a technical staff member and supervisor in integrated circuits, computers, and man/machine interfaces. He served from 1988 to 1996 on the Staff of the Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he conducted research and development in EEG mapping for epilepsy surgery, long-term EEG monitoring, and DC brain potentials. As a consultant, he has designed software and hardware for computerized tomography, automated radiometry, and automated imaging. He has conducted research in psi phenomena, and in 1984 discovered synchronous gamma EEG waves in a gifted clairvoyant. Since 1995, he has been founder and president of BrainMaster Technologies, Inc. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, abstracts, and papers, and has taught at the university and medical school level. He has 4 patents and 3 patents pending, all in the areas of neurofeedback, electrode technology, and evoked potentials. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, is a past board member of the International Society for Neuronal Regulation, and is president of the Neurofeedback Division of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and was a 2006 recipient of the Hans Berger award of the AAPB.
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Pamela Enders, Ph.D is a licensed psychologist and performance and executive coach. Dr. Enders has over 26 years of experience working with corporate executives, attorneys, entrepreneurs, bio-tech professionals, academics, and performing artists. She has extensive experience in providing a range of psychological services including executive coaching, performance coaching and consultation to individuals and organizations. Dr. Enders has also established mentoring programs in a variety of settings. Her areas of expertise include performance psychology, communication, group dynamics, gender roles, and leadership. She is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and is affiliated with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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John Fisher has worked in both the private and public sectors. He is a former CEO and Board Chair of EEG Spectrum International. He presently works as a consultant and writer and oversees the Foundation for Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience.
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Sebern Fisher is a psychodynamic psychotherapist with a primary interest in the importance of secure attachment throughout the life span. She incorporated neurofeedback into her clinical practice in 1997. The effects of brain training that she has both experienced and witnessed have had significant impact on the way she now conceptualizes personality, self, psychopathology and even free will.
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Linda Freud is regarded by many open-minded physicians as perhaps the leading medical intuitive in America. Burton Goldberg, prominent author of a landmark resource book entitled "The Definitive Guide to Alternative Medicine" recently wrote a very positive article for Alternative Medicine Magazine on Linda entitled "Channeling Help from Afar" that is available on her website at www.thehealthylife.com. Linda sees clients in Los Angeles, but also has an international reputation. Over the last two years she has worked with clients at the Kientalerhof Centre for Well Being and at the prestigious Paracelsus Klinik in Switzerland. In addition, a book describing Linda's work will be released by Basic Health Publications in both English and German in 2007.
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Tina L. Huang is the Director of Research at Transparent Corp. She has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester, and 2 postdoctoral fellowhips from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Jean Mayer/USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in neuroepidemiolgy where she conducted research in nutrition in Alzheimer's Disease. Her strong interest in alternative medicine led her to the Brain Entrainment field. The potential of brain entrainment to provide mental health solutions that anyone could afford led her further to investigate its effects on psychological health.
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Michael Linden, Ph.D. has been the director of ADD Treatment Centers in Orange County & San Diego for 15 years. He was one of the pioneers in Neurofeedback and QEEG assessment for ADD in the 1990s and conducted several research studies with Joel Lubar & Vince Monsatra.
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BS in Psychology SUNY Stony Brook, PhD Neurobiology Cornell Univer (1992), PostDoc Sleep Research NYU (1992-94), Sleep Medicine Fellowship NYU (1994-96), Research Assistant Professor of Medicine NYU School of Medicine, and Director Norwalk Hospital Sleep Disorders Center 1996-present
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Siegfried Othmer has been active in neurofeedback for more than twenty years, through instrumentation development, clinical research, and the conduct of professional training courses.
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Sue Othmer is Clinical Director of the EEG Institute in Woodland Hills, California. She has been involved in clinical research and the development of EEG biofeedback protocols since 1988. She teaches professional training courses in EEG biofeedback, and presents clinical research findings in professional forums.
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Bill Scott is a co-investigator of a research project studying somatization disorders at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute with Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D. He’s in the design process of a study investigating brain states during mindfulness meditation with Jeffery Schwartz, M.D. and Barry Sterman, Ph.D. He recently developed a new neuroimaging technology that creates a fractal signature from EEG and is successfully utilizing this technology as a form of EEG biofeedback in a process termed BrainPaint®. He is the first author and principal investigator of a controlled study on addictions (n=121) which was published in August 2005 in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, with David Kaiser, Ph.D, Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D, and Steven Sideroff, Ph.D.
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Kirby Seid has traveled the world for crystals, fossils and ancient artifacts with his mineral business, has taught workshops and designed tools for spiritual practices for the past 25 years. Kirby has a B.A. degree in psychology from UC Santa Cruz and teaches Light Labyrinth workshops across the US and leads seminars at Omega Institute in New York. He has been developing the Light Labyrinth Project in collaboration with artists and scientists who have worked with the Exploritorium in San Francisco and Apple Computers.
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A pioneer in the field of neurofeedback, Dr. Soutar has published three books on the topic of neurofeedback and conducted workshops on the various aspects of neurofeedback at conferences and clinics in the U.S and Europe. As a former professor of psychology and sociology, he has had extensive experience in teaching and training at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. He has also been working continuously over the years as a clinician, director and business administrator of various clinics around the country as well. He developed the first fully certified internet training course for neurofeedback. He has worked successfully with professional atheletes and businessmen on peak performance as well as a wide spectrum of individuals with the traditionally labeled psychological and medical disorders. He has also pioneered a wide range of clinical screening and assessment tools for neurofeedback including, the MiniQ, The MagnitudeAnalysis System, The Interactive Self Inventory, and The NPC Symptoms Checklist. He has also consulted with a variety of equipment manufacturers on the development of The MiniQ, Distance Training and Training Screen Formats as well as the protable mini neurofeedback trainer, the Bioscan ABT. Presently he is consulting on a variety of grants and research projects for the development of cybernetic interface for ALS patients, Spinal Chord Injury, PTSD programs for the U.S Military, and Industrial Design and Marketing.
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Inventor, product developer, entreprenuer, holder of fifteen U.S. patents. Student of American physicist Lester Levenson, creator of the Release Technique.
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John W. DeLuca, Ph.D., founder of Fearless Heart®, is a fully licensed psychologist in Colorado and Michigan. He is also in private practice in Boulder providing psychotherapy, neuropsychological assessment, QEEG brain mapping, neurofeedback and performance enhancement training. He was formerly Assistant Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Director of the Neuropsychology Lab, University Psychiatric Center (1992-2002). Dr. DeLuca is a graduate and former faculty member of Elizabeth Stratton’s Touching Spirit® Training Programs as well as continuing student of Kyabje Gehlek Rimpoche, Jewel Heart Tibetan Buddhist Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Dr. Stephen Larsen is certified by both AIBT and BCIA in eeg, licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in New York State, as well as licensed as a 1 on 1 HeartMath provider, and certified as a LENS master teacher. He has been practicing Biofeedback and Neurofeedback since 1970. He is the Author or editor of ten books on subjects as varied as shamanism, mythology, consciousness, and neurofeedback.
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Senia Maymin, MBA, MAPP consults to corporations about Positive Psychology. Senia is the Founder and Editor of Positive Psychology News Daily (www.pos-psych.com), a daily news site about the latest Positive Psychology research and applications. She also runs a blog on positive psychology ideas at Senia.com. Senia has a background in entrepreneurship, finance, high-tech, and video production. She speaks English, Russian, French, and Japanese. Senia received her AB in Mathematics and Economics at Harvard, her MBA at Stanford, and her Master in Applied Positive Psychology at UPenn.
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Molly Raaymakers, MA, LLP has a private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She began as a Biofeedback Therapist for Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital Pain & Headache Program 1993. She joined S.M.M.M.H.C Wege Institute for Holistic Medicine in 1999, establishing her private practice in 2002.
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Tom Stone is an expert in the application of biophysics and changing patterns of energy in the human body. He has studied applied biophysics extensively in Europe with leading experts in the field. Tom has integrated bio-energetic testing, wave interference, and sophisticated electronic technology to be able to pinpoint and resolve the "bugs" in our inner human software. These Human Software Engineering™ techniques can be used to debug and upgrade any aspect of human life.
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Lifetime in innovative research resulting in many honors, patents, and pioneering development of biofeedback computer based instrumentation including Biocomp 2010 followed by invention of hemoencephalography (HEG)
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Colleen Turner, Ph.D. (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force Reserve, Retired) is a communications consultant and trainer whose client range includes Vista Disney, The California Endowment, the U.S. Army Tank Command, and UCLA's interfaith University Religious Conference. More recently her focus has been on advancing U.S. foreign policy towards positive outcomes. She has designed terrorist defense scenarios and has been tasked to make national level recommendations for the enhancement of international communications. Her research paper entitled: Best Practices for Inspiring Pro-American Sentiment was selected for website publication by the University of Southern California's School of Public Diplomacy: http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/pdfs/turner.pdf She is the author of a small book that blends proven winning methods from a variety of arenas entitled "Communication for Transforming 'No Way' into 'Way to Go!'"
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Dr. Nancy White, a licensed psychologist, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist, stands as one of the original clinical practitioners of Neurotherapy. She is founder and Clinical Director of The Enhancement Institute in Houston, Texas. Dr. White is a Diplomate in Neurotherapy, a Quantitative EEG Diplomate, a Fellow of the International Society for Neuronal Regulation, a Fellow of the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America – EEG specialty, and a consulting editor for the Journal of Neurotherapy. She is author of a number of groundbreaking articles in the field, has contributed a chapter to the Academic Press book, Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback, edited by Evans and Abarbanel, and has presented at conferences and symposia both nationally and internationally. Dr. White is listed in Who’s Who In Medicine and Healthcare and in Who’s Who In America.
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Engaged in providing Biofeedback Therapy using various modalities for 35 years. Extensive experience in treatment of addictions, chronic pain, anxiety and stress disorders, sleep disorders, attention disorders, Learning disorders, Autistic Spectrum disorders. Currently clinical director of ADD Treatment Center in Mission Viejo.
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