2016 SPEAKERS

Alphabetical. Schedule to be announced shortly.

Theresa Carbonaro, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

“The Johns Hopkins Club Drug Study”

Alicia Danforth, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist and Researcher, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

“Exploring MDMA-Assisted Therapy as a Social Adaptability Catalyst for Autistic Adults”

Jag Davies

Director of Communications Strategy, Drug Policy Alliance

“Envisioning Success: What Does the End of Psychedelic Criminalization Really Look Like?”

Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
Natalie Lyla Ginsberg

Rick Doblin, Ph.D., MAPS Founder and Executive Director

Natalie Lyla Ginsberg, MAPS Policy and Advocacy Manager

“Rescheduling MDMA: History and Future”

Amanda Feilding

Countess of Wemyss and March, English artist and founder of the Beckley Foundation

“The Beckley Foundation: History and Future”

Roland Griffiths, Ph.D.

Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

“The Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Research Project: Overview, Phenomenology, and Therapeutic Applications”

Bob Jesse

Founder & organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices

Bia Labate, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor at the Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), in Guadalajara, Mexico, co-founder and editor of the Nucleus for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactives (NEIP)

“Ayahuasca Research and Politics”

Michael Mithoefer, M.D.

Lead Clinical Investigator and Medical Monitor, MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD

“MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy: History and Future”

Stephen Ross, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine

“The NYU Psilocybin Project: History and Future”

Loree Sutton

United States Army Brigadier General, Retired, Founding director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury

“PTSD, MDMA, and the DOD”

Fred Tomaselli

Artist

“Psychedelics and Visionary Art”

Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia

Beyond Healing: Psychedelics as Cognitive Tools for Learning