David Shapiro

Tobi B. Goldfus, LCSW-C, BCD is a therapist, author and national/international speaker. She has over 30 years of clinical hypnosis training/teaching and is a certified Ego State Therapy therapist, (EST North America and EST International. In her book, From Real Life to Cyberspace and Back Again: Helping Our Young Clients Develop a Strong Inner Selfie (2017), she focuses on predicating factors that make young people on social media/gaming sites more vulnerable to negative or traumatic experiences and those that build strong social networks, and provides assessment and psychotherapy techniques to promote balance between online and real life. She is a member and has presented frequently as faculty that include the Milton H. Erickson Foundation conferences, ASCH (American Society of Clinical Hypnosis), ISH (International Society of Hypnosis), ESH (European Society of Hypnosis), MEISA (MHE Institute of South Africa), SCEH(Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis), and faculty and key note speaker at NPHTI (National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute). She is a member of NASW and GWSCSW, and a Board Certified Diplomat. Tobi is in private practice in Germantown, Maryland.

Dr. Shapiro is an anesthesiologist with extensive experience in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) management. Among his many credentials, he is a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC), Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), and certified in Health Care Quality Management. He joined FGI’s Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) during the 2018 Guidelines for Design and Construction revision cycle to represent the ambulatory surgery industry on the HGRC’s Outpatient Document Group.

Past president of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, Dr. Shapiro is a current board member of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (FSASC). In addition, he is a board member of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration (ASC QC), an organization dedicated to developing, measuring, and reporting ASC quality data. In that capacity, Dr. Shapiro has worked with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to promote ASC quality measure reporting.

Dr. Lenore Walker is a professor emerita from Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology where she was the Coordinator of the Forensic Psychology program for the doctoral and master's students. Currently she maintains a small independent practice of forensic psychology assisting attorneys representing those who killed their abusive partners in self-defense or other cases requiring evaluation of the client's state of mind after experiencing trauma. She continues her research on domestic and gender violence with the recent publication of the Survivor Therapy Empowerment Program (STEP) for incarcerated females. Walker has lectured around the world on various issues impacting victim/survivors of interpersonal violence especially using feminist psychology approaches. She has published over 25 books and numerous professional book chapters and journal articles on these topics. She has been appointed the Chair of the American Psychological Association Working Group on Professional Guidelines for the Practice of Psychology. Her passion is writing mystery novels and has published “Madness to Murder” on Amazon. More can be found on her website, www.drlenoreewalker.com.

Saundra Jain, MA, PsyD, LPC, is an Adjunct Clinical Affiliate in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin and a psychotherapist in private practice. Dr. Jain is a co-creator of WILD 5 – A Proven Path to Wellness and co-author of The Science and Practice of Wellness: Interventions for Happiness, Enthusiasm, Resilience, and Optimism (HERO). She is the co-creator of the Psychedelics and Wellness Survey (PAWS), exploring the intersection between psychedelics and wellness. She is the co-host of the newly launched podcast Happy Human 3.0, which explores how modern humans can move beyond merely surviving 21st-century stressors and begin to flourish by integrating neuroscience, positive psychiatry, and compassionate, human-centered care.

In addition, Dr. Jain serves on the Psych Congress Steering Committee, helping guide educational priorities and identify emerging needs in mental health practice. She also teaches with Fluence Training, a leading provider of psychedelic education for mental health professionals, where she serves as faculty in their certification programs in Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration (PHRI) and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).

Dr. Shapiro is an anesthesiologist with extensive experience in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) management. Among his many credentials, he is a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC), Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), and certified in Health Care Quality Management. He joined FGI’s Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) during the 2018 Guidelines for Design and Construction revision cycle to represent the ambulatory surgery industry on the HGRC’s Outpatient Document Group.

Past president of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, Dr. Shapiro is a current board member of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (FSASC). In addition, he is a board member of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration (ASC QC), an organization dedicated to developing, measuring, and reporting ASC quality data. In that capacity, Dr. Shapiro has worked with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to promote ASC quality measure reporting.

Dr. Lenore Walker is a professor emerita from Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology where she was the Coordinator of the Forensic Psychology program for the doctoral and master's students. Currently she maintains a small independent practice of forensic psychology assisting attorneys representing those who killed their abusive partners in self-defense or other cases requiring evaluation of the client's state of mind after experiencing trauma. She continues her research on domestic and gender violence with the recent publication of the Survivor Therapy Empowerment Program (STEP) for incarcerated females. Walker has lectured around the world on various issues impacting victim/survivors of interpersonal violence especially using feminist psychology approaches. She has published over 25 books and numerous professional book chapters and journal articles on these topics. She has been appointed the Chair of the American Psychological Association Working Group on Professional Guidelines for the Practice of Psychology. Her passion is writing mystery novels and has published “Madness to Murder” on Amazon. More can be found on her website, www.drlenoreewalker.com.

Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren was elected Broward County Court Judge, 17th Judicial Circuit, Florida (1997); where she pioneered America’s first specialized Mental Health Court. The court is dedicated to the safe diversion of persons arrested with mental illness and neuro-cognitive disorders through the application of therapeutic jurisprudence and a trauma-informed approach.
The Court is a national and global model; and has diverted over 23,000 people out of Broward County’s jail with linkage to individualized community-based care and psychosocial services.
Special recognitions include:
• National Model for Congressional Legislation piloting 100 Mental Health Courts in the U.S, 2000.

• Appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. (2002).

• Top Finalist: 2013 “Innovating Justice Awards” by The Hague International Institute for Innovation of Law Foundation (HIIL Foundation), The Hague, The Netherlands,

• Excellence in Advocacy Award for Elected Service, National Center for Behavioral Health, 2015.
Judge Wren is an Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) College of Psychology and Neuroscience and NSU Criminal Justice Institute.
She is an author, A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court; Beacon Press, 2018. Judge Wren is a global speaker on mental health & criminal justice, problem-solving Justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, trauma informed courts, and leading cultural change.

Dr. Shapiro is an anesthesiologist with extensive experience in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) management. Among his many credentials, he is a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC), Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), and certified in Health Care Quality Management. He joined FGI’s Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) during the 2018 Guidelines for Design and Construction revision cycle to represent the ambulatory surgery industry on the HGRC’s Outpatient Document Group.

Past president of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, Dr. Shapiro is a current board member of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and the Florida Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (FSASC). In addition, he is a board member of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration (ASC QC), an organization dedicated to developing, measuring, and reporting ASC quality data. In that capacity, Dr. Shapiro has worked with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to promote ASC quality measure reporting.

Dr. Lenore Walker is a professor emerita from Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology where she was the Coordinator of the Forensic Psychology program for the doctoral and master's students. Currently she maintains a small independent practice of forensic psychology assisting attorneys representing those who killed their abusive partners in self-defense or other cases requiring evaluation of the client's state of mind after experiencing trauma. She continues her research on domestic and gender violence with the recent publication of the Survivor Therapy Empowerment Program (STEP) for incarcerated females. Walker has lectured around the world on various issues impacting victim/survivors of interpersonal violence especially using feminist psychology approaches. She has published over 25 books and numerous professional book chapters and journal articles on these topics. She has been appointed the Chair of the American Psychological Association Working Group on Professional Guidelines for the Practice of Psychology. Her passion is writing mystery novels and has published “Madness to Murder” on Amazon. More can be found on her website, www.drlenoreewalker.com.