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care to people affected by disasters and has served in various roles in the
organization, currently serving as its president. His work in disasters has
extended as far as El Salvador and Sri Lanka. He also serves as cochair of
the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) New York County District
Branch Committee on Disaster and as principal author of a number of
citywide and statewide training programs in disaster mental health. He
lectures, writes, and conducts scholarly work on various aspects of disas-
ters as they relate to psychiatry, including two edited books. Dr. Katz
received the APA’s 2001 Bruno Lima Award in Disaster Psychiatry. He has
been a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine since 2007. Dr. Katz
graduated from Harvard College and obtained his medical degree from
Columbia University. He went on to complete his residency in psychiatry
at Columbia University in 1999 and a subsequent fellowship in forensic
psychiatry at New York University in 2000. Dr. Katz has a private practice
in general and forensic psychiatry in Manhattan.

Gregory Luke Larkin, M.D., M.S., M.S.P.H., M.A., F.A.C.E.P., is pro-
fessor of surgery and associate chief for Emergency Medicine at Yale
University School of Medicine. He is principal author of the Code of Ethics
for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and was the
first to espouse cardinal virtues in the practice of emergency and disaster
medicine. Dr. Larkin is ABEM (American Board of Emergency Medicine)
certified in emergency medicine and provides counsel to health minis-
tries in the United Kingdom, Iraq, and elsewhere. He serves an advisor to
the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Injury Control and
Prevention as well as NIMH and SAMHSA. Dr. Larkin penned the Society
for Academic Emergency Medicine’s “Code of Conduct for Academic
Emergency Medicine.” He served as Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust, Guy’s, St. Thomas’, Kings’ School of
Medicine, British Council, Whitehall, London. He is past chair for the
ACEP subcommittee on Youth Violence and is founding chair of ACEP’s
Section on Trauma and Injury Prevention. Dr. Larkin’s research interests
are in empiric bioethics, biostatistics, injury control and prevention with a
focus on the mental health causes and consequences of trauma.

Amy Manierre holds a Master of Divinity degree from New York
Theological Seminary. She is an ordained American Baptist minister, cer-
tified by the Association of Professional Chaplains as a hospital chaplain,
holds a master’s degree from the University of Houston Graduate School
of Social Work, and is an LCSW. Reverend Manierre’s area of interest is