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Anand Pandya, M.D., is the director of inpatient psychiatry at Cedars–
Sinai Medical Center, the president of the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI-National) and a cofounder of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach,
a charity that provides psychiatric care in the wake of disasters. He serves
on the American Psychiatric Association Scientific Program Committee
and is a reviewer for the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Pandya
received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College with Honors in
mathematics and philosophy. He received his medical degree at New York
University School of Medicine and his psychiatric training at Columbia
University/New York State Psychiatric Institute where he served as chief
resident. He also is a board-certified forensic psychiatrist.
Dr. Pandya received the Kenneth Johnson Memorial Book Award for
editing Disaster Psychiatry: Intervening When Nightmares Come True. He
is also a coeditor of the Disaster Psychiatry issue of Psychiatric Clinics of
North America. He taught for several years at NYU School of Medicine
while working at Bellevue Hospital. He currently teaches UCLA (University
of California/Los Angeles) medical students and lectures extensively on
disaster psychiatry. He is a course director for the American Psychiatric
Association annual meeting basic course on Disaster Psychiatry.

Diane Ryan, L.S.C.W., is the director of Disaster Mental Health for the
American Red Cross in Greater New York. She is a licensed clinical social
worker and has worked in trauma, critical incident response and disaster
mental health since 1997, serving at local and national incidents includ-
ing floods, aviation crashes and the World Trade Center attacks. She has
expertise in working with the responder population and provided trauma
protocols to 9/11 responders with PTSD for several years after the WTC
disaster. She was part of a Red Cross team that created and facilitated a
support program for Israeli Red Cross responders in Jerusalem in 2005.
Ryan is a member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
and the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. She has pre-
sented on disaster, trauma, and critical incident response nationally and
internationally and has published extensively.

Siddharth Ashvin Shah, M.D., M.P.H., is medical director of Greenleaf
Integrative Strategies, LLC (www.greenleaf-is.com). As an international
physician–consultant, he blends his skills in integrative medicine, medi-
cal hypnosis, group psychology, trauma recovery, and stress management
research to offer cutting-edge techniques, such as neuropsychoeducation,
laughter yoga, trauma-sensitive yoga, guided meditations, and pranayama