Biography Dr. Judy Kuriansky Dr Judy Kuriansky is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College and the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A United Nations representative for the International Association of Applied Psychology and the World Council for Psychotherapy, she has led workshops on peace, trauma recovery, crisis counseling and on her unique East/West intervention programs around the world, from Buenos Aires to Sagar India, Singapore, Prague, Jerusalem, Dubai and Tehran, Iran. Trained by the Red Cross, and featured in their post 9/11 campaign, she worked in disaster relief after 9/11 at Ground Zero and the Family Assistance Center, and around the world including after SARS in China, bombings in Jerusalem, an earthquake in Australia, and the tsunami in Sri Lanka. A member of the Human Dignity Humiliation Studies Global Advisory Board, she is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and member of the Peace division Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, International Psychology division and a co-founder of APA’s Media Psychology division. Dr. Judy is a pioneer of radio call-in advice and internet advice. A former television reporter on WCBS-TV and others, and show host of “Money and Emotions” on CNBC-TV, she is a popular commentator on many news and talk shows. Currently a feature columnist for national and international print media, including the New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/advice/drjudy/) and China TrendsHealth magazine, she has written advice columns for Family Circle Magazine, the Singapore Straits Times, and Hanako Magazine and Sankei Shinbun newspaper in Japan, and her work has been featured in the new York Times and International Herald Tribune as well as on CBS News, CNN and China’s CCTV. She lectures extensively and collaborates with colleagues in Asia and was appointed visiting professor of Peking University Health Science Center. Her many awards include the first International Outreach Award from the American Women in radio and TV. She has authored many scholarly papers in professional journals and books, including on psychological reactions in “Access: A Disaster Preparedness Manual” and on “Working Effectively with Mass Media in Disaster Mental Health” in the Handbook of International Disaster Psychology. Her many books include the best selling “The Complete Idiots Guide to A Healthy Relationship.” A graduate of Smith College, she earned a masters degree from Boston University and Ph.D. at New York University and spent ten years as a Senior Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute doing cross-cultural work in London. Dr. Kuriansky has presented hundreds of addresses and plenaries, including to the State of the World Forum and scores of health groups, women’s and men’s groups, and business organizations, including co-moderating a panel at the United Nations on “Achieving Collective Security: Partnerships to prevent fear, violence, genocide and terrorism through targeting the MDG goals” and on “Psychosocial Aspects of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict” at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict held at Columbia University, and “Helping Children Cope with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at the WCP conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.