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ISHK Leadership

Founder

Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. An internationally renowned psychologist and author of more than 20 books including the Psychology of Consciousness, Multimind, and The Roots of the Self, Robert Ornstein was considered one of the foremost experts on the brain. Perhaps best known for his pioneering research on the bilateral specialization of the brain, he continually emphasized the necessity of “conscious evolution” to meet the challenges of the 21st century. He taught at Stanford University, Harvard University and UCSF and was president of ISHK from its founding in 1969 until his death in December of 2018. His final work, God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God” was published in 2021 by Malor Books.

Board of Directors

Officers
Sally Mallam – President
Shane DeHaven – Secretary
Mel Raff – Chief Financial Officer

Directors
Margaret Caudill-Slosberg, MD, PhD, MPH
Jonathan Russell
David Sasseen, Esq.
Safia Shah
Charles Swencionis, PhD

Program Directors

ISHK CE@Home for Psychologists

ISHK CE@Home is co-directed by Charles Swencionis, Ph.D., and Kathleen Mazor, EdD.

Dr. Swencionis is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yeshiva University and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology/ Population Health and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has served as the chair of the American Psychological Association’s Continuing Education Sponsor Approval Subcommittee, and the Education and Training Committee of its Division of Health Psychology. He was a participant and organizer of the American Psychological Association Arden House conference on Education and Training in Health Psychology and did postdoctoral fellowships at Langley-Porter Institute, University of California, San Francisco, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Mazor is Professor Emeritus, UMass Chan Medical School. She is a psychometrician with extensive research experience. She has over 250 peer-reviewed publications to her credit, and has developed a variety of tests, attitude measures and surveys. Early in her career she worked as a school psychologist in public schools, and as a behavioral psychologist in residential settings. She has mentored numerous junior faculty members and trainees and has taught research methods and measurement at the graduate level.

Hoopoe Books and Hoopoe Share Literacy Programs

Safia Shah founder and Director of Kashfi’s Children, a United Kingdom community interest company has joined the ISHK team bringing with her additional teaching stories collected and adapted for children by her father, Idries Shah. Through this collaboration ISHK plans to expand Hoopoe’s publishing programs, including its outreach to disadvantaged children throughout the world. Safia has worked with Afghan refugees on the Pakistan/Afghan border, and is the author of numerous books and short stories. Afghan Caravan, a miscellany collected by Safia’s father and edited by her, was selected as The Daily Telegraph’s Book of the Year.

Advisors

Kathleen Mazor, EdD
David Sobel, MD, MPH
Denise Nessel, PhD

Collaborators

From 1969 to present, partial list:
James Burke
William Dement
Edward T. Hall
Doris Lessing
Rene Dubos
Paul Ehrlich
Jonas Salk
Hans Seyle
Idries Shah
Roger Sperry