Myrna M. Weissman, PhD is a Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Chief of the Division of Translational Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She has authored more than 600 scientific publications related to psychiatric disorders and psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. Weissman is best known for developing the Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) approach to treating depression, which has since become a widely used and effective therapy for depression and other mood disorders.

Martin Paulus, MD is a renowned neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on the neural mechanisms underlying addiction, decision-making, and emotion regulation. He currently serves as a Professor in Residence at the University of California, San Diego, and as the Scientific Director of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research.

John Krystal, MD, is a highly esteemed psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose work focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms of addiction, depression, and other illnesses. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and the Chief of Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital.