Howard Eisman Ph.D. Dr. Howard Eisman continues to be a lively, entertaining and informative teacher of psychology and the clinical applications of psychology. He has been a popular professor for two generations of NYU psychology students. He has also taught at St. John's and Pace Universities and at Brooklyn College. Some of his former students have become prominent teachers,
researchers, and practitioners. During his long tenure as Director of Psychology of Coney Island Hospital, he has trained a great many mental health professionals to use effective psychological treatments to provide the quickest and most significant improvements in their client's lives. Dr. Eisman is particularly interested in the treatment of child, adolescent, family and marital problems.

John Bush Ph.D. Dr. John Bush has been successfully practicing cognitive and behavioral therapies in New York City for many years. He has been very active in making the benefits of cognitive and behavioral therapies known to the general public; he has been a pioneer in using the Internet for this purpose. He was among the first to recognize and support a

key role in modern scientific psychotherapy of meditation practices borrowed from the Buddhist tradition. Dr. Bush is known for his strong advocacy of the use of scientifically based psychological treatments, and he is firmly committed to the extensive use of psychotherapy as a major treatment for mental illness. Thus, he is chairperson of the Committee Against Medicalizing Psychology, a group of clinical psychologists actively resisting the excessive influence of drug manufacturers in the mental health field.

Inna Pustilnik Ph.D. Dr. Inna Pustilnik is an exemplar of the new generation of psychologists. Despite her young age, she has almost 10 years of experience in clinical research and clinical practice. She has developed and carried out numerous research projects, which studied stress and physical and emotional health in different populations from children to seniors. Her work also includes educational presentations, making the psychological community aware of the deleterious effects of stress. She also has a successful private practice; she uses cognitive and behavioral therapies to treat trauma victims. Her primary interests are stress management and the interconnection between psychological and physical health. She has joined NYICBT to promote research-based therapies for stress management.

Lisa Baron Ph.D. Dr. Lisa Baron is an innovator in the use of cognitive and behavioral therapies with a population of mentally ill chemical abusing patients. She designed and has run a program for such dually diagnosed patients at Coney Island Hospital for the last twelve years. She is an expert on motivating and doing therapy with very difficult to treat patients. She has also had extensive experience in using cognitive and behavioral

approaches in the treatment of disturbed children and adolescents.

William L. Golden Ph.D. Dr. William L. Golden is on the faculty of Cornell Medical College / New York Presbyterian Hospital and is in private practice in New York City and Briarcliff Manor, New York. He has been on the faculty of the Albert Ellis Institute and the Institute for Behavior Therapy in New York City. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Rational-Emotive and

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly. He has coauthored Hypnotherapy: A Modern Approach, Psychological Treatment of Cancer Patients and Mind Over Malignancy: Living with Cancer. He is coeditor of Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches to Psychotherapy. He has also written articles for professional journals and chapters for books on topics such as cognitive-behavior therapy, hypnotherapy and behavioral medicine.