Raffael Kalisch, PhD is trying to unravel the mechanisms underlying resilience to the detrimental effects of adversity on mental health. He does this in small-sample laboratory studies of stress and emotion regulation mechanisms, often involving neuroimaging, as well as in large-sample longitudinal cohort studies in which stressor exposure, mental health, and resilience factors are monitored repeatedly and at high sampling frequency, such as to identify processes of adaptation that allow stressor-exposed individuals to stay mentally healthy.

Dr. Gur is Professor of Psychiatry Neurology and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine where she directs the Neuropsychiatry Section and the Schizophrenia Research Center and is Vice Chair of Research Development in the Department of Psychiatry. Her combined training in Psychology, Neurology and Psychiatry has provided the tools to pursue an academic career working with basic and clinical neuroscientists to advance the understanding of schizophrenia.

Prof. Gothelf is adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Neuroscience Center, Stanford University and is a full professor of psychiatry at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Since 2010, Prof. Gothelf has served as director of the Division at Sheba Medical Center. Prof.

Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD is a physician-scientist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, with background in translational neuroscience ranging from basic molecular neuroscience to clinical studies. Barzilay's professional life's mission is to enhance the understanding of mechanisms underpinning risk and resilience in major psychiatric disorders in youths who grow up under stress.

Matthew Skinta is an assistant professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago, following a decade of clinical practice and supervision of sexual and gender minority (SGM) cases in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a peer-reviewed acceptance & commitment therapy trainer, a certified functional analytic psychotherapy trainer and therapist, and incorporates compassion-focused therapy into his work. His primary research interests are the study of how to promote vulnerability, acceptance, and self-compassion among SGM people.

Gabriela Livas Stein, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Stein’s program of research identifies individual risk and protective processes for Latinx and other minoritized youth when facing cultural stressors (e.g., discrimination, acculturative stress), and seeks to improve mental health treatment access for Latinx families.