Kyung Bong Koh, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Kyung Bong Koh, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine (M.D.). He is the author of the book ‘Stress and Somatic Symptoms: Biopsychosociospiritual Perspectives’ (Springer, 2018) and editor of the book ‘Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms’ (Springer, 2013). His many published articles concentrate primarily on psychosomatic medicine, especially psychoneuroimmunology, somatization and stress. He has developed a number of psychological instruments, including the Stress Response Inventory (SRI). He played a leading role in founding the Korean Society of Psychosomatic Medicine (1992) and also served as president of the Society. In addition, he served as chairperson of the Organizing Committee of the 21st World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (2011) held in Seoul, Korea. He is currently president of the ICPM.
Chiharu Kubo, MD, PhD
Professor & Chairman of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kyushu University
Dr. Kubo is currently Professor & Chairman of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kyushu University. His main research interests are: Psychosomatic Medicine (Psycho-Neuro-Endocrino-Immunology); Internal Medicine; Allergology. He is President of the Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine and Member of the Board of Directors of Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, Japanese Society of Internal Psychosomatic Medicine, Japanese Society of Autogenic Training, Japanese Society of Fasting Therapy, Japanese Stress Society, Japan Transactional Analysis Association, Japanese Society of Mood disorders, Japanese Society of Naikan Therapy, Japanese Society of Fatigue. He received the Ishikawa Award (Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine) in May, 1993 and the JMI Award (Japanese Society of Autogenic Training) in September, 2007.
Susan H. McDaniel, PhD
Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families & Health, Director of Institute for the Family, and Chief of Psychology, URMC
Director of the Institute for the Family in the Department of Psychiatry, Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and Director of the URMC Physician Communication Coaching Program.
Dr. McDaniel’s career is dedicated to integrating psychological and relational science and practice into healthcare. She has won many awards and is the author of over 100 journal articles and 17 books, including Medical Family Therapy, Family-oriented Primary Care, and The Shared Experience of Illness. Her 18th book is In Press, titled Systemic Integrated Care, with Nancy Ruddy PhD. For 12 years, Dr McDaniel was Co-Editor with Tom Campbell MD of the interdisciplinary journal, Families, Systems & Health, Associate Editor for 10 years of the American Psychologist, and is a frequent speaker at national and international medical and mental health meetings.
Dr. McDaniel has served in many leadership positions in primary care and mental health associations. Among them, she served as the President of the American Psychological Association in 2016, and currently serves on their Council representing the Society for Health Psychology. She is President of the Practice Division (17) of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and she serves on the policy-focused, interprofessional Board of the Primary Care Collaborative in Washington DC.
Thomas G. O’Connor, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Wynne Center for Family Research, URMC
Thomas G. O’Connor is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Wynne Center for Family Research; he also has appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. An alumnus of the University of Rochester (BA 1989), he received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia (1995) and completed his clinical training at the George Washington University Medical Center (1995). His first academic post, from 1995-2003, he was at the Institute of Psychiatry (now the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience) in London. He has been at Rochester since 2003.
Professor O’Connor’s research seeks to identify the mechanisms by which early stress exposures, including those in the prenatal period, shape children’s long-term health and development. He is equally interested in how best to promote health and well-being. For these studies he employs observational, longitudinal, clinical and randomized trial designs. He is a co-author on over 200 research papers and a wide variety of other scholarly works. A clinical psychologist by training, Professor O’Connor’s research seamlessly crosses and integrates many disciplines. Although always focused on child and family processes, his current projects also employ technologies and techniques from neuroimaging, immunology, genetics, and microbiology. Consistent with his broad research interests, his research is funded by six separate institutes within the NIH.
Maryland Pao, MD
Clinical Director and Deputy Scientific Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Pao is Clinical Director and Deputy Scientific Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. She served as Acting Clinical Director for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health from 2020-2022. She was Chief of the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service in the NIH Hatfield Clinical Research Center 2008-2019 and still serves as an Attending. Dr. Pao served as co-Chair of the Trans-NIH Covid-19 Mental Health Response Team for 18 months and now co-Chairs the NIH-Wide Mental Health and Well-being Action Team.
A native of Bethesda, Dr. Pao attended Wellesley College before completing a BA/MD program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed Pediatric and Psychiatric Residency training as well as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is board certified in Pediatrics (1994, 2001), General Psychiatry (1994), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1994) and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (2008, 2018).
Stephan Zipfel, MD
Professor, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University of Tübingen and Department Head of University Medical Hospital Tübingen
ICPM 2024 President Elect; Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy; Dean of the Medical School and Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty University Medical Hospital in Tuebingen, Germany; University of Tuebingen
Stephan Zipfel, MD completed his specialization and training as an internist and specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the University Hospital in Heidelberg/Germany, London/UK and Sydney/ Australia. He is Professor and chair of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Hospital in Tuebingen, Germany. He is also Dean of the Medical School and Vice-Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Tuebingen. He is past-president of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine and Co-director of the German Centre of Mental Health at the Tuebingen site. His research interests are eating disorders across the weight spectrum and obesity research, somatoform disorders and medical education research.