Judith Lewis Herman, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry (part time) at Harvard Medical School. For 30 years, until she retired, she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her books include Group Trauma Treatment in Early Recovery, The Trauma Recovery Group, Father-Daughter Incest, and Trauma and Recovery. Dr. Herman is a recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and from the Division of Trauma Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has also received the Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association and has been named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Diya Kallivayalil, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance, where she is also the trauma consultant for the Department of Psychiatry. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Cambridge Health Alliance's seminar on Global Health and Human Rights. Dr. Kallivayalil's clinical specialty is the treatment of trauma-related disorders. She has published in the areas of complex trauma, gender-based violence, homicide bereavement, and refugee health.
