Presentations

Below is a sample list of invited presentations:

  • Instructor, Critical Incident Response, Los Angeles Mayor's Crisis Response Team, 2023

  • Lead Instructor, Group Crisis Intervention, a two-day course for medical center personnel, including emergency department and additional acute care units. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, 2017

  • Invited Presenter, Psychological Shock: Identifying Signs and Symptoms - How To Render Aid, Marlborough School For Girls, Los Angeles, 2014

  • Lead Instructor, An Introduction to Disaster Psychology: Impact and Recovery, for the Mayor’s Office, City of Los Angeles, Office of Homeland Security, Mayor’s Crisis Response Team, Los Angeles, California, 2013

  • Invited panelist, Lessons Learned From the Trenches of Critical Incidents, Employee Assistance Professionals Association, 2012

  • Invited Presenter, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation 11th World Congress, CISM: On-Scene Support: Lessons Learned and Information Shared, Baltimore, Maryland, February 2011

  • Lead Instructor, Acts of Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Recovery, Promoting Resilience, Los Angeles, California, 2009

  • Lead Instructor, CISM In A Medical Center, A two-day course for medical center personnel, firefighters, paramedics, and mental health professionals. Saint Joseph Hospital, Anaheim, California, 2007

  • Instructor, Preparing For Line of Duty Death, Torrance Fire Department, Peer Support Team, Torrance, California, 2002

  • Lead Instructor, Critical Incident Stress Management, for Department of Defense, Annual Combat Stress Conference, for members of Combat Stress Units, including mental health and clergy from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines who subsequently served in forward combat areas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Camp Pendleton, California, 1999

  • Presenter at the International Conference on Crisis and Calamities, Critical Incident Stress Management for Mental Health Professionals, sponsored by the Russian Academy of Medical Science, Psychiatric Institute, Vladivostok, Russia, June 1996

  • Lead instructor for a two-day course in Basic Critical Incident Stress Management, for Ventura County Fire Chief’s Association, including firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, chaplains, law enforcement, mental health, and American Red Cross personnel, Ventura, California, June 1996

  • Invited Presenter at the ICISF 3rd. World Congress, unpublished paper entitled: An Introduction to the Use of Raw Footage Videotape During CISD, Baltimore, Maryland, April 1995