Plenary Speakers
Amanda Diekman, Ph.D., Indiana University
Amanda Diekman is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She will be giving the following presentation: Gender as Embedded in Societal Structure, Social Context, and the Self: Opportunities and Obstacles.
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Michele J. Gelfand, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Michele Gelfand is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She will be giving the following presentation: Tight or Loose? The Key to Unlocking Our Cultural Divisions.
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Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., New York University
Joseph LeDoux is a University Professor and Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and directs the Emotional Brain Institute located at both NYU and at the Nathan Kline Institute. He will be giving the following presentation: As Soon as There Was Life There Was Danger: Fear Is a Human Invention.
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Anthony Biglan, Ph.D., Oregon Research Institute
Anthony Biglan is a senior scientist at Oregon Research Institute.
Lisa W. Coyne, Ph.D., McLean/Harvard Medical School
Dr. Coyne is President Elect of ACBS, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is a Research Coordinator on the Coalition of Behavioral Science Climate Change Task Force.
Tiffany Dubuc, MS, BCBA, University of Nevada, Reno; King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
Tiffany presently resides in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as BCBA Fieldwork Supervisor for the University of Nevada, Reno in collaboration with the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center.
Julia H. Fiebig, Ph.D., BCBA-D, ABA Global Initiatives & Ball State University
Dr. Fiebig is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Applied Behavior Analysis at Ball State University, co-founder of ABA Global Initiatives Consulting Group, and a director of LPC International.
They will be giving the following presentation: We’re all in this Together: A Coalition of Behavior Science Organizations to Combat Climate Change.
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Dennis Tirch, Ph.D. , The Center for Mindfulness and Compassion Focused Therapy
Dennis Tirch, Ph.D., is President of The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) and the Founder of the Center for Compassion Focused Therapy in New York. Dr. Tirch is the author/co-author of numerous books, chapters, and peer-reviewed articles on ACT, CFT, CBT, and Buddhist psychology. Dr. Tirch also serves as an Associate Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, and as President of The Compassionate Mind Foundation, North America.
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Invited Speakers
Patrick Friman, Ph.D., ABPP, Center for Behavioral Health at Boys Town and University of Nebraska School of Medicine
Dr. Patrick C. Friman is the current Vice President of Behavioral Health at Boys Town and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. He will be giving the following presentation: Six Metaphysical Sources of Reinforcement.
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Akihiko Masuda, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Akihiko Masuda is an associate professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He will be giving the following presentation: ACT and Zen: What if Zen is the Chosen Valued-Direction?
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Caio Miguel, Ph.D., BCBA-D, California State University, Sacramento
Dr. Caio Miguel is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Verbal Behavior Research Laboratory at California State University, Sacramento. He will be giving the following presentation: Problem-Solving, Bidirectional Naming, and Derived Stimulus Relations.
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Siri Ming, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Private Practice
Dr. Ming is a practicing behavior analyst with over 20 years of experience in the field, in positions ranging from direct intervention work with children with autism to regional level quality assurance for developmental disability services across the life span. She will be giving the following presentation: Viewing EIBI Programming through an RFT Lens.
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Graciela Rovner, Ph.D., ACT Institutet Sweden & Karolinska Institutet
Dr. Rovner is known as a highly inspirational and unconventional trainer, the only peer-reviewed trainer that is a physiotherapist (PT). She will be giving the following presentation: Evolving health services towards clinical process-based models to manage chronic diseases (mental and/or physical).
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Emily K. Sandoz, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Emily K. Sandoz is the Emma Louise LeBlanc Burguieres/BORSF Endowed Professor of Social Sciences in the Psychology Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She will be giving the following presentation: Looking Back to Stay Ahead: Recasting ACT as Behavior Analysis.
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