Lloyd Briggery

US Army Combat Veteran Lloyd Marshall Briggery is an illustrator and a storyteller. After completing four years serving in the US Army ROTC while attending Hampton University as an art major, Lloyd was commissioned and went on to serve 6 years of Active Duty, the bulk of which was spent overseas stationed in Germany; including two combat tours to Iraq in the Global War on Terrorism. In 2008 after his second combat tour to Iraq, Lloyd was honorably discharged from the US Army and returned to the US to begin his pursuit of a career in art. Soon after, he was diagnosed with PTSD. Lloyd spent the next 4 years in therapy and counseling while thriving as a fitness instructor in Brooklyn, New York. In 2011, Lloyd was accepted into the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art, a trade school for aspiring comic book artists in Dover, New Jersey. Upon graduation, he was brought on to the staff of the school as the Events Coordinator and Admissions Officer, and for the next seven years he represented the school at comic book conventions around the world, taught various classes and seminars, and interviewed some of the comic book industry's most prolific practitioners. In 2021, Lloyd decided to take his talents back to his home state of North Carolina to start his own art business, "Art by Brigg", where he spends his time between church, the gym, and being a one man art factory from his home studio.

Zachary Herrmann, DO graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2016. He completed an internship at South Nassau Communities Hospital and then a residency in general psychiatry at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. After residency, Zachary worked at the New Hampshire State Hospital with an appointment at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He then joined the Department of Psychiatry at Baystate Health where he serves as an outpatient and interventional psychiatrist. Zachary's clinical and research interests include the application of emerging experiential treatments such as psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine for the treatment of various mental health disorders and for their potential to aid in wellbeing and resilience. Zachary is especially intrigued by the psycho-spiritual component engendered by these experiences and how this may affect the psychiatric paradigm.

Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH, attended medical school at the University of Calcutta in India. He then attended graduate school at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, where he was awarded a “National Institute/Center for Disease Control Competitive Traineeship”. His research thesis focused on impact of substance abuse. He graduated from the School of Public Health in 1987 with a Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree.

Dr. Jain served a three-year residency in Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He followed that by obtaining further specialty training, by undergoing a two-year fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Jain completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Research Psychiatry at the University of Texas Mental Sciences Institute, in Houston. He was awarded the “National Research Service Award” for the support of this postdoctoral fellowship.