Laurie Davidson, MA, cooridinates the technical assistance that the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at Education Development Center, Inc. is providing to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) campus suicide prevention grantees.  She also is an associate director of the Center for College Health and Safety, managing projects in the area of alcohol and other drug prevention, violence prevention, and mental health promotion and suicide prevention.  She recently served as director of the Campus Alcohol Prevention and Intervention project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aimed at organizing statewide approaches to alcohol, other drug, and violence prevention in higher education.  She also directs an effort to synthesize and disseminate best practices in campus mental health promotion, funded by the Ittleson Foundation.  She is co-author of a puclication on best practices in alcohol and other drug prevention now in development for the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention.

Education Development Center, Inc. is an international nonprofit research and development organization serving clients in health care, social services, education, justice, and public and mental health at the community, local, state, national, and international levels.  Before joining EDC, Ms. Davidson served a variety of organizations in the business, higher education, and non-profit sectors.  She has an M.A. in Counseling and worked for eight years in community mental health centers with clients with alcohol, drug, and other mental health problems.

Lynda D. Field, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist, Suffolk University Counseling Center, Associate Professor of Psychological Services, Co-Director of ADAPT Program 

Paul Korn, Ph.D., is a Staff Psychologist at the Suffolk University Counseling Center, a Professor of Psychological Services, and Co-Director of ADAPT Program at Suffolk University.  He provides counseling and psychotherapy services for students, staff, and faculty; teaches in the Psychology Department; and functions as a consultant on such issues as customer service, addressing racism and prejudice, stress management, conflict resolution and organizational decision-making.  As a psychologist and consultant in private practice, Paul has worked during the past thirty years with health care, higher education, public education, and corporate institutions. From 1993-1997, Paul was president of the Society Organized Against Racism in Higher Education (SOAR).

Ben Locke, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director for Research and Technology at Penn State’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Services and is an affiliate faculty member in both the Counseling and Clinical Psychology Departments at Penn State. Ben also serves as the director of the new Center for the Study of College Student Mental Health - a national project among counseling centers that is working to standardize the client data collected in counseling centers and to then pool this data on a national level for trend analysis, research, and reporting. In addition, Ben serves on the advisory boards of several national organizations related to improving and understanding college student mental health including the directorate of CCAPS (ACPA) and ULifeline.com (a project of the Jed Foundation).
 
Joanna Locke, MD, MPH, is a Program Director with The Jed Foundation and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine.  She earned her BA from the University of Maryland at College Park and both her MD and MPH degrees from the Tulane University Health Sciences Center.  After completing an internship in psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center, Dr. Locke finished her residency at the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in general preventive medicine and public health. 

Vanessa McAdams Mahmoud, LCSW, is the Director of Mandala Psychotherapy Associates in the Atlanta Metro Area.  She was the former director of Spelman College’s Counseling Services from 1994-2005.  She has over 25 years of experience in the field of mental health and addiction.  She has had extensive experience in community mental health, couples therapy, women’s issues, survivor issues, and core issues in recovery from addictions.  She is a nationally known trainer and workshop facilitator.  Her most recent publication is a chapter in "Ethnicity and Family Therapy," on African-American Muslim Families.  She is currently working on a book, "Healing Internalized Oppression."   
 
Susan Orsillo, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Suffolk University and she holds a joint adjunct appointment in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Boston University.  Dr. Orsillo is a prolific researcher in the field of anxiety.  She has edited two books and published over 60 peer reviewed articles and chapters on the assessment and treatment of anxiety, particularly generalized anxiety disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.  She has been funded by both the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Defense to develop and investigate behavioral and acceptance-based behavioral approaches to treating anxiety.  Dr. Orsillo currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review, Behavior Therapy and the Journal of Traumatic Stress.  She is also the Academic and Professional Issues Coordinator for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Herbert N. Ramy, JD, is Director of the Academic Excellence Program at New England School of Law.  Before joining the NESL faculty in 2006, he was a professor and Director of the Suffolk University Law School’s Academic Support Program, which he designed.  He was previously an instructor and acting director of the Legal Practice Skills Program, Suffolk University Law School’s legal research and writing program.  Prior to his teaching career, Professor Ramy was a law clerk to the judges on the Massachusetts Superior Court and clerked for the Honorable Elizabeth Porada on the Massachusetts Appeals Court.  He is the author of Succeeding in Law School (2006, Carolina Academic Press), Navigating the Internet: Legal Research on the World Wide Web (2000), and a number of articles, including "Student depression becomes an issue of faculty concern" (2005, Student Lawyer).