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Gloria Araya David M. Bear, MD John C. M. Brust, MD Louis R. Caplan, MD Lou Conte Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD Antonio R. Damasio, MD Jacques d'Amboise Henry Fogel Howard Gardner, PhD Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH, FACP Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD Tony Jones Joseph LeDoux, PhD Jerre Levy, PhD Yo-Yo Ma Susan S. Pritzker Oliver Sacks, MD Adam Shindler Todd Siler, PhD Sandra Weintraub, PhD |
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Andrea Gellin Shindler Executive Director / Founder Michael C. Shindler President / Treasurer Virginia Barry, M.D. Vice President / Secretary Ellen Bernstein Vice President |
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly". [Buddha]
Gloria Araya is an International Fitness Presenter, Choreographer and Inspirational Speaker. Her creativity and love for teaching have been the source of inspiration, to many of whom have experienced her classes, workshops, and presentations.
Her motto is: “If I can do it, you can do it too”; this comes from her deep belief in the innate ability and inner capacity of others.
Gloria is a constant advocate for living a healthier lifestyle. She was honored by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Science for her contribution to the Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement on Informational Programming: Diabetes, Guia para Hispano-Americanos.
This honor was presented to her again on a consecutive year for her contribution to the Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement on Informational Programming: Salud Emocional, Guia para los Hispano-Americanos.
Her mission is to inspire people to live fully. Using dance and music as her tools for inspiration Gloria has traveled the world, sharing her unique style of dance and fitness moves that emphasize the importance of emoting through movement, to get connected with your body and senses, maintaining a nurturing inner life and promoting an active lifestyle. Nominated for Best Presenter in Switzerland, she has taught in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and she has also been recognized in her hometown as Best of Chicago by Chicago Magazine.
Gloria also understands the health disparities women of different ethnic backgrounds face today; she has toured the United States throughout programs such as “Latina Tour”, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, reaching out to thousands of women across the country.
Her inspirational presentations have made her a sought-out keynote speaker at women’s conferences such as “Fun, Fit and Fabulous” in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She has also served as Spokesperson for Nestlé, touring the country with “Más de Nestlé’s Family Fitness Fiesta”, a family event designed to help motivate and engage children and parents in understanding how good nutrition and physical activity contribute to a healthier lifestyle.
She has served as spokesperson for the American Heart Association, to bring awareness to the Latin Community on the importance of cultivating good eating habits to maintain good health and overall well being . This relationship led her to Latina Magazine where she served as a contributor, and expert panelist for the magazine as well as a contributor to the informational programing “The Guide for Healthy Living for Latinos”, which featured Gloria’s work along with Sofia Vergara, Lili Estefan, and Mirka Dellanos.
One of Gloria’s trademarks is her ability to fuse entertainment, health and fitness. She received The Woman of the Year Award by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for her efforts to raise funds to benefit a child battling this disease. She organized “Arts for Life”, a variety benefit concert which gave local artist of the Chicago area the opportunity to contribute to the community by sharing their talents.
She is a passionate supporter of literacy, the arts, women's issues and education. For two consecutive years, Gloria has been guess artist for “ Latino Read”, a program of Art & Literature that benefits “Mi Escuelita Pre-School” in Dallas, Texas. www.miescuelita.org and guess presenter at Zapata Academy in Chicago. She has also worked with Latino Girls Scout of Chicago implementing her self-esteem program C.R.E.A.R. for Teens as well as with "Mujeres Latinas en Acciòn", supporting women in transition through health and fitness education as well as personal transformational workshops.
Gloria is no stranger to work in front of the camera. She has appeared as co-host instructor on “CRUNCH Fitness Show” on ESPN2, and co-host of Jenny Craig’s “Jenny’s Fit in 15” TV Show. She also co-hosted and served as technical advisor of “Totalmente Latina”, a Spanish speaking fitness show which aired on ESPN International, reaching more than 40 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to TV, she also boasts a well rounded list of dance/fitness videos.
Closer to her heart is the volunteer work she has done for children. She has worked as Artistic Director of Choreography for “The Happiness Club”, a multicultural children’s group where members write, sing and perform their own material. The Happiness Club has been a featured performer for former President Bill Clinton, General Collin Powell, Bill Cosby and Tiger Woods among many others. This not-for-profit organization also created the EMMY AWARD WINNER program,“Ethics for Kids”, a character building educational program supported by the administrators of the Chicago Public Schools. In this program, Gloria served as a teacher and trainer inspiring Chicago area teachers to understand how they could use movement and dance to foster creativity and learning. This program has been successfully implemented in 30 public schools in the Chicago area.
Gloria has appeared on KTLA Morning News, Los Angeles; the “Later Today” show, ABC New York; “Primer Impàcto”, Univisiòn Miami; “Despierta América”, Univisiòn, Miami; “Noticias 66” feature story, “Cuando yo llegué”, Univisiòn, Chicago; “Nuestros Niños”, Telemundo; “Travelers”, Discovery Channel, The Cheap show, PBS; ESPN2; ESPN International; Comcast and FOX network affiliate. She is also a member of SAG and AFTRA.
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David Bear, MD
David Bear is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and Director of Telepsychiatry at the Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine. A graduate of Harvard College and Medical School, he became the first Psychiatric Co-Director of the Behavioral Neurology Unit founded at the Beth Israel Hospital (Boston) by Dr. Norman Geschwind, where his interests focussed on the Neurology of Emotion. His studies include behavioral alterations in patients with temporolimbic epilepsy, hemispheric specialization of emotional processing, and neurological controls of aggression. Based on his research, Dr. Bear has served as a medicolegal expert witness in prominent cases involving the capacity to control aggressive behavior. He has a strong interest in novel methods of delivering specialized psychiatric care utilizing telemedicine and computerized psychiatric workstations.
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John C.M. Brust received an AB degree at Harvard College and an MD at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. His Neurology Residency was at the New York Neurological Institute/Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He is currently Professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University and Director of the Department of Neurology at Harlem Hospital Center. Dr. Brust is a member of the American Neurological Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He is the author of over 200 publications on topics that include disorders of music and language, alcoholism, drug abuse, stroke, epilepsy, nutritional disease, and and health care delivery. Books he has written include "Neurological Aspects of Substance Abuse" and "The Practice of Neural Science." He is a frequent speaker at neurological conferences and is an editor or reviewer of numerous journals, including Editor-in-Chief of Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. Dr. Brust is married and lives in Manhattan.
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Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief of the Stroke Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Louis R Caplan was born in Baltimore, Maryland December 31, 1936. He attended Williams College in Williamstown Massachusetts where he graduated cum laudein 1958. He was elected as a college junior to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Williams College history prize. He attended the University of Maryland college of Physicians and Surgeons in his home town of Baltimore and graduated summa cum laude in 1958 and was the valedictorian of his medical school class.
He was an intern and junior resident in Medicine
at the Boston City Hospital from 1962 to 1964 after which he served 2
years in the US Army. Caplan did his Neurology residency from 1966 to
1969 on the Harvard Neurological Unit at the Boston City Hospital under
Dr Derick Denny-Brown. In 1970 he was a Cerebrovascular Disease Fellow
at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. C. Miller Fisher. In
1970 he became a staff Neuologist at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston
and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. At the Beth Israel Hospital he was the founder of
the Harvard Stroke Registry. He was Chair of the Neurology department
at Beth Israel during 1974-5. He became the Neurologist-in-chief at the Michael
Reese Hospital in Chicago and Professor of Neurology at the University
of Chicago in 1978. From 1984 through 1997 he was Neurologist-in-chief
at the New England Medical Center in Boston, and Professor and Chairman
of the Department of Neurology and Professor of Medicine at Tufts. In
January 1998, he returned to the Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard
Medical School. He is a Fellow of the American College of
Physicians, and a diplomat of both the American Board of Internal
Medicine and the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. He is the
author or editor of 26 books, mostly on various aspects of stroke and
over 500 articles in medical journals. He has been the Chairman of the
Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and chair of a number
of Neurological and Stroke organizations including the Boston and
Chicago Neurological Societies. He is an honorary member of the German,
Australian, and Hong Kong Neurological Societies and the Korean Stroke
Society. He is or has been on the editorial board of 21 different
medical journals.He has been asked to deliver 18 named lectureships. He
has trained 46 stroke fellows, including 28 international fellows. He
lives with his wife Brenda in Brookline Massachusetts. He has 6
children (5 boys and a girl) and 5 grandchildren. He is an avid tennis
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Founder, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Director, Lou Conte Dance Studio
After a performing career including Broadway musicals, Conte established the Lou Conte Dance Studio in Chicago in 1974. In 1977, he founded what is now Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, with four dancers, performing at senior citizens’ homes in Chicago. Originally the company’s sole choreographer, he developed relationships with world-renowned choreographers as the company began to grow, adding bodies of work by a variety of artists. These relationships transformed HSDC into the internationally acclaimed repertoire company it is today. In the 1980’s, Conte brought in several works by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Margo Sappington and Daniel Ezralow. He continued to build HSDC’s repertoire by forging a key partnership with Twyla Tharp in the 1990's., acquiring seven of her works including an original work for the company.
Conte further expanded the company’s
repertoire to include European choreographers Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato
and most recently, Ohad Haharin, whose Minus 16 received its US
premiere by HSDC in October 2000. These long-term relationships along
with Conte’s participation in selecting the
company’s new artistic director, have paved the way for
HSDC’s future. Through his 23 years as the
company’s artistic director, Conte has received numerous
awards, including the Chicago Dance Coalition’s inaugural
Ruth Page Artistic Achievement Award in 1986, the Sidney Yates Arts
Advocacy Award in 1995, and the Chicagoan of the Year award by Chicago
magazine in 1999. He has been credited by many for helping raise
Chicago’s international culturalprofile and for creating a climate for dance in the city, where the art form now thrives.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University and Director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is a former professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of 15 books and over 200 scholarly articles on creativity and optimal performance. Drawing upon years of systematic research, he invented the concept of "flow" as a metaphorical description of the rare mental state associated with feelings of optimal satisfaction and fulfillment. His analysis of the internal and external conditions giving rise to "flow" show that it is almost always linked to circumstances of high challenge when personal skills are used to the utmost. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, the University of Illinois, the University of Milan, the University of Alberta, Escola Paulista de Medecina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Duquesne University, the University of Maine, the University of Jyvakyla in Finland, and the British Psychological Society.
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Antonio Damasio is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Neurology, and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California; he is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Until 2005 he was at the University of Iowa as Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology. Damasio’s books, Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, and Looking for Spinoza are translated in numerous languages and taught in universities worldwide. He is also the recipient of numerous awards (including, most recently, the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology, 2005; and the Signoret Prize, 2004, which he shared with his wife Hanna Damasio). Damasio is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has been named “Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute for Scientific Information.
Damasio has elucidated critical problems in the fundamental neuroscience of mind and behavior, although his investigations have also encompassed parkinsonism, Alzheimer's disease, and autism. His contributions have had a major influence on our understanding of the neural basis of emotion, memory, and language. For two decades the laboratories that he and Hanna Damasio created at the University of Iowa have been a leading center for the investigation of cognition using both the lesion method and functional imaging, and have formed numerous scientists working in these areas of research. | TOP |
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Founder, National Dance Institute
Recognized as one of the finest classical dancers of our time, Jacques d’Amboise now leads the field of education with a model program that exposes thousands of school children each year to the magic and discipline of dance.
In 1976, while still a principal dancer with the
New York City Ballet, Jacques founded National Dance Institute in the
belief that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate
individuals towards excellence. His contributions in arts education have earned
him numerous honors, among them The Heinz Award (2001); Town Hall
Friend Of The Arts Award (2000); Honorary Doctorate Of Fine Arts - The
Julliard School (2000); Honorary Doctorate Of Humane Letters - Franklin
Pierce College (2000); The National Medal Of Arts (1998) America's
Highest national honor for cultural contribution; The Kennedy Center
Honors (1995); The Award For Distinguished Service To The Arts From The
American Academy Of Arts And Letters (1993); MacArthur Fellowship
(1990); The Capezio Award (1990); The First Annual Producer's Circle
Award For Public Service In Enriching The Lives Of New York City
Children (1989); The Museum Of The City Of New York Award; The
Distinguished Paul Robeson Award For Excellence In The Field Of Arts
& Humanities (1988); The Governor's Award For Outstanding
Contributions To The Art And Culture Of New York State (1986); and The
Big Brothers Of New York City Sidewalks Of New York Award For
Entertainment (1984). An Academy Award, six Emmy Awards, The Peabody
Award, the Golden Cine Award and the Education Association Award for
the Advancement of Learning Through Broadcasting were awarded for He
Makes Me Feel Like Dancin', a 1984 film documenting Jacques' work with
NDI. Some other film credits included Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,
Carousel, and Offbeat. As a teacher, he has been the recipient of many
honors and served as a Dean and a Professor of Dance for two years at
SUNY Purchase, as well as visiting Professor at the College of Creative
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President & CEO, American Symphony Orchestra League
Henry Fogel was appointed to the position of President and CEO of the American Symphony Orchestra League starting July 1, 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Fogel was President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association from 1985-2003, where he oversaw not only the CSO, but surrounding activities such as Symphony Center Presents (the organization's independent presenting series of classical and jazz attractions), the Civic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Singers, and the Symphony Center facility. During the period of Mr. Fogel's leadership, the Association's budget more than tripled and its endowment grew from $19 million to over $160 million. Also during his tenure, the CSO undertook a massive program of community engagement and strengthened its educational programs considerably. In 1997, Mr. Fogel completed overseeing the award winning Symphony Center project - the $120 million dollar renovation and expansion of Orchestra Hall.
Mr. Fogel has been, and remains, involved in a
number of local and national arts organizations. He was Chairman of the
Board of the American Symphony Orchestra League from 2001-2003, and
served a previous ten year term as a League Trustee in the 1980s and
90s. He has also been both President and Chairman of the Illinois Arts
Alliance, and is a member of the Board of WTTW-Channel 11 in Chicago,
the Board of Overseers of the Curtis Institute, the Steering Committee
for the National Women Conductors Initiative, and the Honorary Board of
the Institute for the Study of Black Music at Columbia College. He has
served as a judge at conducting competitions in New York, Helsinki, and
Tokyo. Mr. Fogel is a professor at Roosevelt
University's College of Performing Arts in Chicago, where he teaches a
course in orchestral studies. He is also a record reviewer whose
writings have been regularly published in Fanfare since 1981, and has
contributed several entries to the book Contemporary Composers. He also
writes a monthly column for Auditorium, the leading music magazine in
South Korea. He has produced many series of radio programs for Chicago
Fine Arts Station WFMT that have been syndicated nationally, including,
currently, "Collectors' Corner," and, since 1994, he has been an annual
panelist on the Quiz of the Metropolitan Opera international
broadcasts. He has served as a consultant for management and labor
issues to many orchestras throughout the country, including those in
Houston, Louisville, Detroit, San Antonio, Kansas City, St. Louis, and
Omaha, as well as many Illinois orchestras. In 2003, he received honorary doctorate degrees
from the Curtis Institute and from Columbia College in Chicago. In
1998, he also received an honorary doctorate from Roosevelt University
in Chicago. In 1999, Mr. Fogel received a Cultural Leadership Citation
from Yale University's School of Music for service to the cultural life
of the nation. In 1998, he received a Civic Leadership Award from
DePaul University's College of Commerce. In 1997, he received the Top
Chicagoan Award from Chicago Magazine, and Arts Entrepreneurship Award
from Columbia College. In 1990, he was named by Business Week magazine
as one of the five best managers of cultural organizations in the
United States. Prior to joining the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Mr. Fogel served as Executive Director of the National Symphony
Orchestra in Washington, D.C. and Orchestra Manager of the New York
Philharmonic. From 1963 to 1978, he was Vice President and Program
Director of radio station WONO in Syracuse, New York, where he
conceived the first radio fundraising marathon for an orchestra. Mr.
Fogel has acted as producer and broadcast host for more than 100
radiothons for some 26 different orchestras. A native of New York City, Henry Fogel received
his education at Syracuse University. He and his wife, Frances, have a
son, Karl, and a daughter, Holly, and three grandchildren.
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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Chair of Harvard Project Zero's Steering Committee. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. He has been awarded sixteen honorary degrees--including degrees from Princeton University, McGill University and Tel Aviv University on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel. The John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded him a Fellowship for 2000.
The author of eighteen books and several hundred
articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory
of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists
but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard
psychometric instruments. During the past fifteen years, he and
colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of
performance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use
of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum,
instruction, and assessment. Most recently, Gardner has been carrying
out intensive case studies of exemplary creators and leaders; he and
colleagues have launched an investigation of the relationship between
cutting-edge work in different domains and a sense of social
responsibility for the use and implications of that work. Gardner is
the author of eighteen books which have been translated into twenty
languages. His two most recent books, both now available in paperback,
are The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized
Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves (Penguin
Books, 2000) and Intelligence Reframed: Multiple
Intelligences for the 21st Century (Basic Books,
1999).
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Philip B. Gorelick, MD MPH FACP is Professor and Head, University of Illinois Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation College of Medicine at Chicago. He received his BS from Loyola University in 1974, as a biology major; his MD from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in 1977, followed by Internship, University of Illinois at Chicago 1977-78; Neurology Residency at Loyola-Stritch/Hines Veterans Hospital 1978-81; Fellowship in Stroke, Michael Reese Hospital, 81-82; MPH University of Illinois School of Public Health. Epidemiology/Biometry 1988.
Among Dr. Gorelick’s positions and
honors are: National Stroke Association
Visionary in
Practice Society Award, 2000; Editor-in-Chief,
Neuroepidemiology, 1997-2000;
Invited Speaker NIA Workshop
on Alzheimer’s
Disease, 1998; Speaker and Rapporteur
NINDS/AIREN International Workshop on Vascular Dementia, 1991;
19997-present; ad hoc reviewer, NIA
and NINDS,
1990-1996, 1997-2000; Professor
of Neurology, Rush Medical College,
1991-2003; Asst. Professor of Neurology,
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine,
1985-1987; Director, Stroke Service, Michael
Reese
Hospital, 1985-1991; Director,
Stroke Service, Department of Neurology, University of
Illinois, 1982-1984.
Dr. Gorelick has received the following research
support: NIH/NINDS for African-American Antiplatelet Stroke
Prevention Study: Risk Markers for Dementia After Stroke; Studies of
Dementia
in the Black Aged.
Dr. Gorelick has authored many research papers,
particularly
relating to stroke and edited texts associated with neurology.
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Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is co-author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness, which was chosen in 1990 as the most outstanding book in biomedical sciences by the American Association of Publishers, and author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, Dr. Jamison has written more than 100 scientific articles about mood disorders, suicide, psychotherapy, and lithium. Her memoir, An Unquiet Mind, which chronicles her own experience with manic-depressive illness, was cited by several major publications as one of the best books of 1995 and is currently under development as a feature film (Universal Studios). An Unquiet Mind was on The New York Times bestseller list for five months and translated into fifteen languages. Dr. Jamison is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards. Her most recent book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide was a national bestseller and selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 1999.
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Co-CEO of the Art Institute of Chicago
President of the School of the Art Institute
Tony Jones is an internationally-known arts administrator, broadcaster, writer and historian of art and design. Born in Wales, Great Britain, Professor Jones studied painting, sculpture, and art history at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Newport College of Art. A Fulbright Scholar, Professor Jones completed his graduate study at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Among numerous assignments in education, Professor Jones was Chair of the Department of Art at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Subsequently he became Director of the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, 1980-86, before being appointed President of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth appointed Professor Jones as Director of the Royal College of Art in London, 1992-1996. He was appointed the Co-Chief Executive of the corporation of the Art Institute of Chicago, and President of the School of the Art Institute 1996.
He has published several books and essays on art
and design, broadcast often on radio and television, and created
numerous exhibitions. Jones is a recognized authority on the
development of art, design and architecture of the Arts and Crafts
Movement and the Modern Age, especially on the work of Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, the Scottish architect, artist and designer, and Archibald
Knox, leader of the Celtic Revival movement in design. Jones' filming
credits include a television special for BBC, Glasgow, Sisters
Beneath the Skin, comparing architecture of Glasgow, Scotland and
Chicago, 1998, a 5-part television series for BBC, London, Painting the
Dragon, presenting a 4,000 year history of art in Wales, 1999. He
created the exhibition of Archibald Knox titled "Liberty Style" which
toured Japan 1999-2000 for the Japan Art and Culture Association.
Professor Jones was awarded the Newbery Medal, is the Senior
Fellow of the Royal College of Art, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts, was elected Honorary Member of the American Institute of
Architects, and was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of
Wales. He resides in Chicago, Illinois, USA with his wife,
distinguished American photographer, Patty Carroll.
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Joseph LeDoux studies the brain mechanisms of emotion and memory. He received a PhD in psychobiology from the State University of Stony Brook in 1977, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at Cornell University Medical College, where he remained through the level of Associate Professor. In he 1989 he joined the Center for Neural Science at New York University. Currently he is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU. His work is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, which has twice awarded him a MERIT Award and a Research Scientist Award, in addition to several research grants. His last book was The Emotional Brain, published in 1996.
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Dr. Jerre Levy, Professor Emerita, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology (formerly Behavioral Sciences) has spent her career studying and teaching about brain-behavior relationships. In June 1970, she received her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in Psychobiology for research on Information processing and higher psychological functions in the disconnected hemispheres of human commissurotomy patients (Doctoral Advisor: Professor Roger W. Sperry). She did postgraduate work in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow and in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University as NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Levy was on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to the University of Chicago in 1977. Among the courses Dr. Levy has taught at both the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, have been: Biological Psychology, Evolutionary Biopsychology, Brain Asymmetry, Learning and Memory, Sensation and Perception, Human Neuropsychology .
Dr. Levy has written or collaborated on nearly 100
publications, including such titles as: Review of left brain-right
brain; Science and Moral Priority; Two sides of the brain-brain
lateralization explored; Cerebral lateralization and spatial ability;
Evolution of language lateralization and cognitive function; Right
brain, left brain: Fact and Fiction; Cerebral asymmetry and aesthetic
experience.
Dr. Levy has served in editorial capacities for
the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance; Brain and Cognition; Human Neurobiology; Neuropsychologia;
Journal of Neuroscience. She is a member of the Society of Experimental
Psychologists and the International Neuropsychology Symposium. Dr. Levy
resides in Chicago, Illinois.
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FHP expresses its warmest thanks to Yo-Yo Ma for having served as an advisor from January 1990 to June 2004. His confidence in and commitment to our goals and mission, in the context of his ever-expanding schedule, has meant the world to us. Singlehandedly, he has shown that human potential can be endless! His extraordinary efforts to erase the world's cultural divides through music are without peer. We very much look forward to staying in touch and witnessing his future projects!
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Suzan S. Pritzker
Ms. Pritzker has enjoyed a decades long career of service in the non-profit community of Chicago with a special emphasis on art, education and women's issues. In addition to her affiliation with the Foundation for Human Potential, she is most proud of her work with Urban Gateways; The Center for Arts in Education, the Chicago Foundation for Women, and Pitzer College.
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As a physician and a writer, Oliver Sacks is concerned above all with the link between body and mind, and the ways in which the whole person adapts to different neurological conditions.
Oliver Sacks was born in London, England (both of
his parents were physicians) and he obtained his medical degree at
Oxford. In the early 1960's, he moved to the United States, where he
completed an internship at UCSF and a residency in neurology at UCLA.
Since 1965, he has lived in New York, where he is clinical professor of
neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, adjunct professor
of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and consultant neurologist
to the Little Sisters of the Poor and at Beth Abraham Hospital Dr. Sacks began working in 1966 as a consulting
neurologist for Beth Abraham, where he encountered an extraordinary
group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen
states, like human statues, unable to initiate movement. These patients
were survivors of the great epidemic of sleepy sickness that had swept
the world from 1916 1927. They became the subjects of his
book, Awakenings (1973), which later inspired a
play by Harold Pinter, "A Kind of Alaska, " and the Oscar-nominated
Hollywood movie, "Awakenings," starring Robert De Niro and Robin
Williams. Dr. Sacks is perhaps best known for his
bestselling 1985 collection of case histories from the far borderlands
of neurological experience, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for
a Hat. In 1989, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his
work on what he calls the "neuroanthropology" of Tourette's syndrome, a
condition marked by involuntary tics and utterances. His seven books, which also include Migraine,
A Leg to Stand On, Seeing Voices,
An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently,
The Island of the Colorblind, have received
numerous awards and been translated into 22 languages. In the fall of
2001, Dr. Sacks will publish Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a
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Mr. Shindler joined WHM, LLC – the hotel operating company owned by The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm with approximately $14 billion of hotel assets under management – in March 2006 and serves as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Corporate Finance Group. In this role, he is responsible for undertaking feasibility analyses for capital expenditure projects related to newly acquired hotel assets, due diligence and underwriting assignments for potential acquisitions and dispositions, assisting with technology systems integration, identifying and improving hotel operating inefficiencies, as well as tax (legal) and debt (banking) compliance.
Prior to joining WHM, Mr. Shindler held an array of positions at Hotel Victor South Beach, the uniquely positioned and un-branded luxury boutique hotel managed by Hyatt Hotels and Resorts – the first of its kind for the company. Most recently he was the Restaurant Manager at Vix Restaurant, where he was responsible for the operations of the 145-seat establishment featuring a regional cuisine from along the Spice Route (Zagat rated), that generated in excess of $5 million annually. Prior to assuming the helm at Vix, Mr. Shindler was an Operations Manager at the hotel since it opened in February 2004, and was instrumental in creating and implementing the training program for each of the four food and beverage outlets (a total of 150 employees). Additionally, he was responsible for the development of standard operating procedures, system integration, front office staff training, purchasing and receiving, and revenue management.
From July 2003 to July 2004, he was an Associate in the Real Estate & Hospitality Advisory Services Group of KPMG, LLP. He is a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, receiving a BS in Hotel Administration, with a concentration in real estate finance in May 2003. While at Cornell, he co-founded the Hotel School's Entrepreneurial Society, now called Hotelie Entrepreneurs, an organization that focuses on the development of business-minded students. Upon moving to South Florida, he assumed the role of President of the South Florida Chapter of the Cornell Hotel Society. Mr. Shindler is a member of the board of advisors of The Foundation for Human Potential, a 401(c)3 organization with a mission to foster interdisciplinary research into brain-behavior relationships and to derive teaching methods from that research.
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Dr. Todd Siler is the founder and director of Psi-Phi Communications, a company which develops innovative multimedia learning materials for accelerating breakthroughs and innovations in businesses, schools and communities.
Todd Siler is a visual artist, writer, inventor,
educator and consultant who received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary
Studies in Psychology and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1986. He was the first visual artist to receive a
doctorate from the Institute. He is a member of the advisory board for
the Council on Art, Science and Technology at M.I.T., and a Forum
Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Dr. Siler has published many articles and books
on his work, including his latest book, Think Like A Genius (Bantam,
1996; Transworld, 1998). His book, Breaking the Mind Barrier (Simon and
Schuster, 1990 and Touchstone Books, 1992) was nominated for the 1994
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for "a work of
outstanding educational achievement with potential for worldwide
impact." Both books have been translated into many languages. Dr.
Siler's drawings, "Truizms," and column, "Everyday Genius" appear
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Dr. Sandra Weintraub is the director of the Clinical Core of the Northwestern Alzheimer’s Disease Center which has been funded by the National Institute on Aging since 1996. She joined Northwestern University in 1994 where she is currently Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Director of the Neuropsychology Program. She is also part of the multidisciplinary clinical team at the Neurobehavior and Memory Health Service of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation where she diagnoses memory disorders and works with patients and families to provide education and support.
Dr. Weintraub has been awarded research grants
from the Illinois Department of Public Health and the National
Institute on Aging to study visual attention in Alzheimer’s
disease. She has authored over 75 articles and book chapters and is
internationally recognized as a researcher and lecturer in the fields
of neuropsychology, aging and dementia. She was one of the two
Scientific Honorees recognized at the Rita Hayworth Gala of the
National Alzheimer’s Association in 1997. Among her many
other activities, she currently serves as the Chair of the
Medical/Scientific Advisory Council to the Board of Directors of the
Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Chicagoland Chapter and is a
member of the board of directors of the International Neuropsychology
Society. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, she
was an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr.
Weintraub, a native of Canada, received her Bachelor’s degree
from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She completed a
Master’s Degree in Education and a PhD in Psychology from
Boston University and is board-certified in her specialty of Clinical
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