Frank R. Campbell, Ph.D., LCSW,C.T.,
Executive Director
The Office of Clinical Research and Consultation, and The Crisis Center Foundation
frankcampbell@brcic.org

Dr. Campbell serves as Executive Director of The Office of Clinical Research and Consultation, and The Crisis Center Foundation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United Sates of America.  He is a past president of the American Association of Suicidology, past social worker of the year for Louisiana, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and is certified in Thanatology. He has delivered over one hundred national and international presentations and trainings on his Active Postvention Model (APM) as well as other related workshops. The Active Postvention Model (APM) he developed known as The LOSS Team was featured in his third documentary for the Discovery Channel which aired September 2004.  In 2006 he contributed a  chapter on the role of the mental health provider following suicide for the American Psychiatric Association’s Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management.  In addition to his published articles, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Magazine Advancing Suicide Prevention and is presently gathering research for a book he is writing on the use of metaphors for healing from sudden and traumatic loss (working title: The Canyon of Why). 

Silvia Sara Canetto, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Colorado State University

Silvia Sara Canetto, Ph.D.is Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, US. She holds graduate degrees from Italy, Israel and the United States. Her scholarship on gender, culture and suicidal behaviors has received national and international recognition.  She is the 1997 recipient of the Shneidman Research Award of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), and a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research.

Speaker's Publications:
Men Who Survive a Suicidal Act
The Gender Paradox in Suicide
Gender and Suicidal Behaviors

Thomas Joiner

Went to college at Princeton and received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is Distinguished Research Professor and The Bright-Burton Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. His work is on the psychology, neurobiology, and treatment of suicidal behavior and related conditions. Author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Joiner was recently awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He received the Shneidman Award for excellence in suicide research from the American Association of Suicidology, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions from the American Psychological Association, as well as various research grants. He is editor of the American Psychological Association’s Clinician’s Research Digest, and he has authored or edited fourteen books, including Why People Die By Suicide, published in 2005 by Harvard University Press.

Michelle Linn-Gust

Michelle Linn-Gust is an international author and speaker about suicide prevention and postvention issues. She is the author of Ginger’s Gift: Hope and Healing Through Dog Companionship. Her first book, Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling, inspired siblings around the world in their survival after a loved one’s suicide. She currently serves as the Survivor Division Chair for the American Association of Suicidology and is a doctoral candidate in Family Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is a co-chair of the Postvention Taskforce for the International Association for Suicide Prevention and as Associate Editor for the Association of Death Education and Counseling’s journalette, The Forum.

Jerry Reed, PhD, MSW

Jerry serves as Executive Director of the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA, Inc.  Prior to assuming this position on July 1, 2003, Jerry served as an independent consultant working on health care, mental health, geriatric and suicide prevention issues.  He most recently worked with the Center for Mental Health Services on a variety of initiatives in support of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy and also served as project liaison with the three-year Hotline Linkage and Evaluation Project (HELP) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC).  He received an MSW degree with an emphasis in Aging Administration from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1982.  He spent 15 years as a career civil servant working in both Europe and the United States as a civilian with the Department of the Army developing, implementing and managing a variety of quality of life programs including substance abuse prevention and treatment, family advocacy, child and youth development programs, social services and the range of morale, welfare and recreation programs.  Selected as a Congressional Fellow in 1996, he worked in the Office of Senator Harry Reid (NV) serving as senior advisor on health care, mental health, suicide prevention and aging issues.  Upon completion of the fellowship he accepted a full time position with the U.S. Senate and completed his assignment in 1999 as Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Reid.  Jerry received his Ph.D. in Health Related Sciences with an emphasis in Gerontology at the Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2007. His research question was understanding crude rate variation among U.S. states in elderly male suicide.