| NEW PERSPECTIVES for the PREVENTION and TREATMENT of ADDICTIONS All presentations are simultaneously translated into Arabic, French and English. |
 OCTOBER 7-8 -9, 2005 Monroe Hotel - Beirut |
BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
AZOURI Chaouki, M.D.
Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, President of the Lebanese Psychoanalysis Society (Lebanon), Active member of the Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne (France).
Publications:
• Azouri Ch. (1991), J’ai réussi là où le paranoïaque échoue, Denoël.
• Azouri Ch. (1992), La psychanalyse à l’écoute de l’inconscient, Marabout.
DEGLON Jean Jacques, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Director of the Fondation Phénix (Geneva, Switzerland), that manages five medical psychosocial programs for drug and alcohol users. In 1998, he received the Nyswander Dole Award, given by the American Methadone Treatment Association. In 2004, he received the Chimera Award from the European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association.
For more information: www.phenix.ch
Publications :
• Le traitement à long terme des héroïnomanes par la méthadone, Editions Médecine et Hygiène, 1982.
• Traitement à la méthadone, Editions Médecine et Hygiène, 1994.
• Méthadone: résultats; éva luation 1995 de quatre programmes médico-psychosociaux, Editions Médecine et Hygiène, 1996.
• Evaluation 1998 des programmes médicopsychosociaux de la Fondation Phénix, Editions Médecine et Hygiène, 2000.
• Articles in various scientific publications.
HADDAD Ramzi, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Psychiatry Department of Rizk Hospital, (Beirut, Lebanon). Founding Member of Skoun, Lebanese Center for Addictions.
For more information: www.skoun.org
Publications :
• “Pharmaco-épidémiologie de l’usage et de la dépendance aux benzodiazepines au Liban dans la période d’après-guerre”, in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, December 2000.
• Articles in various scientific publications.
KARAM Elie, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Professor & Head of Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Balamand University, Faculty of Medicine, St. George University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
For more information: www.idrac.org.lb
Most recent publications :
• Karam E.G., Maalouf W., Ghandour L. (2004), “Alcohol use among university students in Lebanon: Prevalence, Trends and Risk Factors. The IDRAC University Substance Use Monitoring Study (1991 and 1999)”, Journal of Drug Alcohol Depend, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol 76, p. 273-286.
• Karam E.G., Ghandour L., Maalouf W., Yamout K. (2003), Substance Use and Misuse in Lebanon: The Lebanon Rapid Situation Assessment & Responses Study, Technical Reports on Drugs and Crime in North Africa and the Middle East, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
• Karam E.G., Yabroudi P.F., Melhem N.M. (2002), “Comorbidity of Substance Abuse and Other Psychiatric Disorders in Acute General Psychiatric Admissions: A Study From Lebanon”, Comprehensive Psychiatry, 43(6), p. 463-468.
• Articles in various scientific publications.
KEISTER Sue
Lead Developer and International Training Coordinator for the Lions-Quest K-12 positive youth development programs of Lions Clubs International. She has worked in 22 countries and lead the development of the acclaimed K-12 Lions-Quest programs, including Skills for Growing, Skills for Adolescence, Skills for Action, Teens – Alcohol and Other Drugs, and Connecting School-to-Work and Service-learning.
Publications:
Articles in various US national publications.
LEE Jeff
Executive Director of The Mentor Foundation, an international foundation with a focus on the prevention of drug misuse, London, UK. His career has involved substantial practical experience of education in schools, youth work and in the training of teachers and other professionals.
For more information: www.mentorfoundation.org
LEIGHTON Tim
Clinical Psychologist, Head of Professional Education, Training and Research, at Clouds, an alcohol and drug dependency rehabilitation center, (UK). Director of Studies, University of Bath Foundation Degree in Addictions Counselling, (UK).
For more information: www.clouds.org.uk
Publications:
• Leighton T., Ryle A. (1995), “How analytic is CAT?”, in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Recent Developments in Theory and Practice, Editors A. Ryle, Wiley.
• Ryle A. (1997), “Borderline Personality and Substance Misuse Problems“, in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder, Wiley.
• Leighton T., Barton N. (2005), “Interpersonal Group Therapy in intensive addiction treatment settings”, in Reading and Weeg man (eds), Group Psychotherapy with Substance Misusers, Routledge.
• Leighton T. (2004), “The Minnesota Model in Great Britain”, Strang and Gossop (eds), Heroin Addiction and "The British System": Exploring the Responses, Routledge.
LOWENSTEIN William, M.D.
Pneumologist, Director of Montevideo Clinic. Director of the Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Research and Treatment of Addiction and Pain (Boulogne, France). Vice-President of the Harm Reduction Association. Vice-President of the Association de Réduction des Risques. Member of the Advisory Committee, The International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment of The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute.
For more information: www.toxicomanies.info
Publications:
• La Méthadone et les traitements de substitution, Editions Doin, 1995.
• Addictions aux opiacés et traitements de substitution, John Libbey Eurotext, 2003.
• Ces dépendances qui nous gouvernent, comment s’en libérer ?, Calmann-Lévy, 2005.
• Multiple articles in scientific publications.
MOHIT Ahmad, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Director of the Division of Health Protection and Promotion for the Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, WHO, Cairo, Egypt. Responsible amongst other programs of the Child and Adolescent Health Program and the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Program.
Publications:
• Mohit A. (1996), Middle East Cultures, Human Mind, Mental Health and Mental Illness, Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain.
• Mohit A. (1999), Editorial for the special issue of Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal on Mental Health.
• Mohit A, Murthy S.R., Saraceno B. Wig N N., A Monograph on Mental Health in the Countries of Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO. A 500 pages book due for publication December 2005.
• Multiples articles in various publications
MOREL Alain, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Medical Director of the Centre de soins spécialisés “Le Trait d'Union” (Boulogne, France). President of the Fédération Française d'Addictologie.
For more information: www.addictologie.org
Publications:
• Soigner les toxicomanes, Dunod, reedited in 2003.
• Prévenir les Toxicomanies, Dunod, 2000.
• Multiple articles in various publications.
NAJA Wadih, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Member of the Psychiatry team of the Rizk Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon).
Publications :
• Naja W. J., Pelissolo A., Haddad R.S., Baddoura C., “A General Population Survey On Patterns Of Benzodiazepine Use And Dependence In Lebanon”, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, Dec 2000.
• Naja W. J., J. P. Reneric, M. P. Bouvard, “Neuroleptiques atypiques chez l’enfant et l’adolescent (“Atypical Neuroleptics With Respect To Child and Adolescent”), L’Encephale (Encephalon), XXIV, 1998, p. 778-85.
• Articles in various scientific magazines.
NEWMAN Robert, M.D., M.P.H.
President Emeritus of Continuum Health Partners, Inc (St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, Long Island Hospital and NY Eye & Ear Hospital). Director of The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute. For the past 30 years Dr Newman has played a major role in planning and directing some of the largest addiction treatment — including the New York City Methadone Maintenance and Ambulatory Detoxification Programs that treat over 33000 patients annually. Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. Professor, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
For more information: www.opiateaddicitionsrx.info
Publications:
• Newman R. G., “Prescribing methadone, pursuing abstinence”, in Addictive Drugs and Addictive States - The State of the Art, Mannaioni P. F. and Masini E. (eds.), Addiction Research Foundation of Italy (Rome, Italy), 1994, p. 25-32,
• “Hong Kong: Building a Large Scale, Low Threshold Methadone Program”, in Breaking Down Barriers, New York, NY: Open Society Institute (2004), p. 42-50
• “HR2 – Harm Reduction and Human Rights”, in War on Drugs, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, K. Malinowska-Sempruch & S. Gallagher (eds.), New York, NY: The International Debate Education Association, 2004, p. 72-84.
• “Addiction and Methadone: One American’s View”, in War on Drugs, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, K. Malinowska-Sempruch & S. Gallagher (eds.), New York, NY: The International Debate Education Association, 2004, p. 271-283
• More than a hundred articles in various scientific publications.
NUSS Philippe, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Psychiatry Department, Hôpital Saint Antoine, (Paris, France). He teaches at the Medecine Faculty of GHU Pitié-Salpêtrière/St-Antoine, and works as a researcher at l'INSERM (U538).
Publications:
• Hode Y., Reimold M., Demazieres A., Reischl G., Bayle F., Nuss P., Hameg A., Dib M., Macher J.P. “A positron emission tomography (PET) study of cerebral dopamine D2 and serotonine 5-HT2A receptor occupancy in patients treated with cyamemazine (Tercian)”, Psychopharmacology (Berl), 2005 Jul; 180(2):377-84.
• Nuss P., Taylor D., De Hert M., Hummer M., “The generic alternative in schizophrenia: opportunity or threat?”, CNS Drugs, 2004; 18(12):769-75. Review.
• Multiples articles in various publications
RAWSON Rick, Ph.D.
Experimental psychologist, Associate Director of UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, at the head of 300 researchers working on the Matrix outpatient model of treatment, Los Angeles, USA.
For more information: www.uclaisap.org
Publications:
• Isralowitz R., Afifi M. and Rawson R. (eds), Drug Problems: Cross-Cultural Policy and Program Development, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn., 2002.
• Sorensen J. L., Rawson R., Guydish J., & Zweben J. (eds), Drug Abuse Treatment through Collaboration, Washington DC, American Psycho logical Association, 2002.
• Rawson R. A., Treatment of Stimulant Abuse CSAT: TIP #33 (Chair, CSAT Consensus panel), DHHS, Rockville, Md., 1998.
• More than a hundred articles in various scientific publications.
TATARSKY Andrew, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Director of the Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates. Founding member and Past President of the New York State Psychological Association. Chairperson of Mental Health Professionals in Harm Reduction.
For more information: www.harmreductioncounseling.com
Publications:
• Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, Andrew Tatarsky (ed.), 2002.
• Multiple articles in various scientific publications.
