The TOP DD Network Study Research Team
Network RCT Principal Investigator: Bethany Brand, Ph.D., from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Co-Principal Investigator: Hygge Schielke, Ph.D., from Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Senior Research Consultants: Frank Putnam, M.D. (University of North Carolina and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center); Richard Loewenstein, M.D. (University of Maryland Medical School). North American Research Consultants: Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. and Paul Frewen, Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario); Amie Myrick, L.C.P.C. (Family & Children’s Services of Central Maryland); Clare Pain MD, MSc., FRCPC and Catherine Classen, Ph.D. (University of Toronto); Kathy Steele, M.N., C.S., Metropolitan Counseling Services. European Research Consultants: Suzette Boon, Ph.D., private practice, the Netherlands; Ellen Jepsen, M.D., Ph.D., Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Norway.Richard Loewenstein, M.D.
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Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of MD School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. He founded and from 1987-2020 was Medical Director of The Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt, Baltimore, MD. He is Section Editor, Dissociative Disorders, DSM-5 Text Revision, and Co-editor of the 4th Revision ISSTD Guidelines for Treatment of DID in adults. He is a distinguished life fellow, APA and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ISSTD.