Webinar
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 1:00–2:30PM EDT / 11:00AM–12:30PM MDT / 10:00–11:30AM PDT / 5:00–6:30PM GMT / 6:00–7:30PM BST / 7:00–8:30PM CAT & CEST / 8:00–9:30PM IDT
This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in observance of 26 June — the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Today’s panelists, who represent multiple roles of victim/survivors, health care providers, and activists, will share their multidimensional reflections of nearly 50 years of national and international multigenerational experience. Each presenter helped develop torture treatment programs, envisioning multi-disciplinary torture treatment and advocacy that respond to the needs of survivors both individually and intergenerationally within their families and communities.
Speakers:
J. David Kinzie, MD
Has been a professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland for more than 40 years, where in addition to academic roles, he founded the Intercultural Psychiatric Program in 1977, integrating the roles of trauma, culture, and psychiatry in clinical practice. He has authored or co-authored 140 articles on refugee health, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and approaches to treating refugee patients
John Schlapobersky
Was arrested in South Africa for opposing apartheid, tortured, detained and deported. Establishing himself in England, he became a psychotherapist and founding trustee at the Medical Foundation, now Freedom from Torture. He worked there as clinician and supervisor for 25 years, and at the Traumatic Stress Clinic. He has a wide consultative practice, teaches internationally and his publications include: ‘When They Came For Me: The Hidden Diary of An Apartheid Prisoner.’
Irene Martinez, MD, FACP
Is an internist, a graduate from Cordoba, Argentina. She practiced primary care for over 30 years in the Cook County Health System. She is a human rights activist who has worked as an advocate for torture survivors and in the forensic documentation of torture. She completed a Clinical Ethics Fellowship at the University of Chicago. She is co-founder of the Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture.
Mary Fabri, PsyD
A clinical psychologist, worked with torture survivors for over 30 years. She was Senior Director of Torture Treatment Services and International Training at Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago for 12 years. She served as President of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs for 5 years. Dr. Fabri now works as an independent consultant internationally on mental health issues related to torture, war trauma, gender-based violence, and HIV.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder, Executive Director and Senior Representative to the United Nations of the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT); Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
