AHRP Board of Directors

David Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Work, Florida International University, Miami.

Dr. Cohen is Professor of Social Work at the College of Health and Urban Affairs of Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He was Editor-in-Chief of Ethical Human Sciences and Services. He has co-authored or edited 8 books and over 70 publications on psychiatric drugs, medicalization critical psychiatry and law and psychiatry. He has been an investigator in over 20 research projects in three countries, and has presented his findings in departments of psychiatry, schools of law, consumer conferences, before state legislatures, and as a consultant in legal proceedings. Dr. Cohen was awarded the 2003 Eliott Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association for his article "Medications as Social Phenomena."

Needed: Critical Thinking about Psychiatric Medications (160K pdf file)
Keynote Address by David Cohen, Ph.D.
Fourth International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health
Quebec City, May 2004

Mental Health Insurance Parity Is an Empty Notion
Commentary by David Cohen and Keith Hoeller
Los Angeles Times
July 08, 2002

Karen Effrem, M.D.
Pediatrician, researcher, and conference speaker

Dr. Effrem's undergraduate degree is from Purdue University in pharmacy, her medical degree is from Johns Hopkins University and her pediatric training from the University of Minnesota. She has provided testimony for Congress, as well as in-depth analysis of numerous pieces of major federal education, health, and early childhood legislation for congressional staff, state legislatures, and many organizations. Besides AHRP, Dr. Effrem serves on the boards of three other national organizations. She has spoken at numerous state and national conferences. She has been interviewed by or quoted in the British Medical Journal, the Wall Street Journal, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax, newspapers, and radio and television stations across the country. Dr. Karen Effrem and her husband, Paul, have three children and live in the Minneapolis metro area. Needleman is the world expert on the health hazards of lead at silent doses. He developed a new way of measuring the amount of lead in a child's body by the analysis of teeth. This method has been adopted for use around the world.

Stefan P. Kruszewski, M.D.

Dr. Kruszewski is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed post-doctoral work at Harvard Affiliate Hospitals, UMDNJ-Rutgers, and Duke University. His recent academic affiliation included a five-year appointment as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine and Associate Medical Director of the Physicians' Health Programs of the Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He is certified in general psychiatry as well as having been certified in the subspecialties of geriatric, adolescent and addiction psychiatry and, by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, in addiction medicine. His single-authored articles and editorials have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, American Journal of Psychiatry, Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Archives of Family Medicine and Psychiatric NEWS. He is an expert in addictive diseases and the scientific basis that underscores certain neuropsychiatric drugs, including drugs of abuse, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, mood stabilizers and stimulants.

Dr. Kruszewski is also a whistleblower. After he reported systemic physical and pharmaceutical abuses and deaths of Pennsylvania children and adults to his superiors at the Department of Public Welfare, Bureau of Program Integrity, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (in his capacity as psychiatric consultant to them from 10.09.01-7.11.03), Dr. Kruszewski was fired. He decided to speak out about his findings and continues to do so. He now assists the education of judicial, legislative, regulatory, political and scientific groups in issues pertaining to pharmaceutical misrepresentations and research irregularities.

Meryl Nass, M.D.
Physician specializing in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illnesses

Dr. Nass is also an expert on anthrax and biological terrorism, and a US authority on adverse reactions due to anthrax vaccine. Dr. Nass has testified on anthrax before three congressional committees and the National Academy of Sciences, and consults widely on bio-terrorism issues. An additional interest focuses on the ways scientific research becomes perverted for political and economic ends. Her weekly column appears in www.RedFlagsWeekly.com ; her own web site is www.anthraxvaccine.org

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Herbert Needleman, M.D.
Professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Needleman is the world expert on the health hazards of lead at silent doses. He developed a new way of measuring the amount of lead in a child's body by the analysis of teeth. This method has been adopted for use around the world. Dr. Needleman mounted the first large scale study of intelligence and behavior in children who had no symptoms of lead toxicity. He showed that children with high lead in their teeth, but no signs of lead poisoning, had lower IQ scores, poorer attention, and poorer language skills. His paper, published in 1979 was influential in the decision to remover lead from gasoline.

John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D.

Dr. Noble's 30-year career has straddled public administration in federal and state governments and graduate-level university teaching experience at Brandeis University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Catholic University of America. His teaching and research specialties are policy research and analysis, program evaluation and meta-analysis. Dr. Noble has consulted over the years with the World Health Organization, the U.S. Department of Justice, the federal judiciary and federal, state, and local governments in connection with health, mental health, and disability policies and programs with emphasis on their work-incentive and disincentive effects.

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Sally Rogow, Ed.D.
Professor Emerita of the University of British Columbia.

Educator and author, Dr. Rogow's research has focused on language development, literacy and currently, the prevention of emotional abuse and neglect of children with disabilities. She is Director of "The Person Within" project, an educational program to prevent emotional abuse and neglect of children and young people with disabilities.  Dr. Rogow has written several books and many articles in the field of special education. Her most recent publications are based on her research on the treatment of children with disabilities in Nazi Germany and abuse prevention. Her web site is International Special Education:
http://www.internationalsped.com/

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Vera Hassner Sharav, M.L.S.
Has developed a database to track ethical violations in research.

She organized family members who testified before the National Bioethics Advisory Commission about ethical violations in research on mental patients. Those testimonies led to the prize-winning series in the Boston Globe, "Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill," which resulted in shutting down 29 clinical trials by the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.  Mrs. Sharav organized the Alliance for Human Research Protection as a public interest watchdog group.

For a listing of the activities of Vera Hassner Sharav during the last eight years, go to www.google.com, and type in "Vera Sharav."

Loren Mosher, M.D.
Board Member of AHRP and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego until his death on July 10, 2004

Dr. Mosher was the first Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health, 1969 -1980. He founded the Schizophrenia Bulletin and for ten years was its Editor-in-Chief. Until his death in 2004, he directed his own consulting company, Soteria Associates, to provide mental health, research and forensic consultation using his breadth of experience. Dr. Mosher lectured and lead seminars on "Alternatives to Hospitalization", "Non-Drug Approaches to Psychosis" "Understanding Big Pharma" "Organizing User Friendly Systems of Community Mental Health" and other topics. He was also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. He led the Soteria Project, an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. His website is www.moshersoteria.com.

Interview with Dr. Loren Mosher. COVER STORY, San Diego Reader. Still Crazy After All These Years by Jeannette De Wyze vol. 32, no. 2, p. 26 et. Seq. (January 9, 2003.)

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