FPR - Key Persons

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• Vice Chair
• Professor

Beate Ritz, MD, PhD Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology Professor of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Sciences, and Neurology Schools of Public Health and Medicine, UCLA Past President, International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Member of the FPR Board of Directors and the Advisory Board britz @ucla.

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• Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology & Global Health Program, University of California San Diego

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• CMB Network Member

CMB Network member Brandon Kohrt discussed the multi-national collaborative "IDEA" project, a "risk calculator" for depression.

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• Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emerita / Center for Culture and Health / Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

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• Professor of Neurology Emerita / Distinguished Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology Emerita

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• Project Director

Constance A. Cummings is project director of the FPR and the website's managing editor. In addition to co-organizing FPR workshops and conferences, she is a co-editor of Formative Experiences: The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (Cambridge, 2015), and Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications (2020). She received her AB in Greek and Latin from Brown University and her PhD in theoretical linguistics (syntax) from New York University.

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• Member of the BOARD of ADVISORS
• Professor and Former Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCLA / Senior Instructor, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute

Douglas Hollan, PhD Professor and Former Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCLA Senior Instructor, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute Editor of Book Series, Society for Psychological Anthropology Member of the FPR Board of Directors and the Advisory Board dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu

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• Adjunct Professor
• Founder
• President of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
• Director, Board Chair, President, and Secretary of the Lemelson Foundation

The FPR was founded in December 1999 with a gift from Robert Lemelson, PhD, a psychological anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, to support and advance interdisciplinary research bridging anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and the neurosciences. A graduate of Hampshire College, Dr. Lemelson received his MA in anthropology from the University of Chicago with additional training in clinical psychology and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His area of interest is Southeast Asian studies, psychological and visual anthropology, and transcultural psychiatry. Dr. Lemelson is an adjunct professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. He is also an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. A former Fulbright scholar, he has been conducting psychological and visual anthropological research in Indonesia, on the islands of Bali and Java, yearly for the past 20 years. His work has appeared in such journals as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Ethos, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Transcultural Psychiatry. He is also the co-editor of three volumes with Cambridge University Press: Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives (Kirmayer, Lemelson, & Barad, 2007), Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (Kirmayer, Lemelson, & Cummings, 2015), and Culture, Mind, Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, Applications (Kirmayer, Worthman, Kitayama, Lemelson, & Cummings, 2020). Dr. Lemelson serves as a director, board chair, president, and secretary of the Lemelson Foundation, a family foundation whose mission is to promote innovation and invention in American society and the developing world. He is also the founding director of the Robert Lemelson Foundation, which was established in 2010 to promote global mental health and well-being. Additionally, he supports the Indonesian Studies Program and the Lemelson Anthropological Honors Program at UCLA, as well as the Lemelson/Society for Psychological Anthropology Student Fellowship Program. Lemelson, R. (2014). "The spirits enter me to force me to be a communist": Political embodiment, idioms of distress, spirit possession, and thought disorder in Bali. In D. E. Hinton & A. L. Hinton (Eds.), Genocide and mass violence: Memory, symptom, and recovery (pp. 175-194). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706859.011

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• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Yale University Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Human Development and Social Change, NYU

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• Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon

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• Member of the BOARD of ADVISORS
• Member of the FPR Board of Directors
• Professor Emeritus

Marvin Karno, MD Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Member of the FPR Board of Directors and the Advisory Board AMKarno@AOL.com

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• Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University; Past President, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture; President, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry

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• Professor of Anthropology Emerita, Emory University

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• Member of the FPR Advisory Board
• Professor

Steven R. López, PhD Professor of Psychology and Social Work, Department of Psychology University of Southern California Member of the FPR Advisory Board lopezs@usc.edu

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• Secretary of the BOARD of DIRECTORS