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BOARD MEMBERS
	President and Coordinator of the Center for Social Justice: Maureen Duffy, Ph.D. has been a professor of counseling, family therapy, and qualitative research for over twenty years. She graduated from the National University of Ireland, University College, Dublin, with a degree in Social Science and from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a Ph.D. in Systemic Family Therapy. Maureen is a Licensed Family Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida and a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator. She has been in active clinical family therapy and supervision practice for over twenty years. Maureen is on the Editorial Boards of major international journals in the fields of family therapy and qualitative research and is the Co-Editor of The Qualitative Report. She devotes considerable time to mentoring new authors in family therapy and in qualitative research. Maureen has presented her work at major professional conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally. In 2006, Maureen was an invited speaker at the Oxford University Round Table on the Psychology of the Child. She is the author of numerous publications in family therapy, qualitative research, and workplace mobbing and is a co-founder of the International Institute for Human Understanding. Her current interests are in the areas of applications of neuroscience to clinical work with couples and families, neurofeedback, and school and workplace mobbing. She is a consultant and conference speaker on school and workplace mobbing.
	Vineeth John, MD, MBA. Dr. Vineeth John was born and raised in India. He graduated from medical school at the Christian Medical College in his native country. He came to the United States to complete his residency in Psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine and the New England Medical Center in Boston, where he was chief resident. After residency, he was an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Western Psychiatric Institute. In 2001, he became Service Chief of Psychiatric Emergency and Intake Services and served as a vital member of the senior medical leadership team at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. During this period, Dr. John expanded his managerial and administrative experience by completing a MBA degree at the University of Pittsburgh Katz School of Business. In 2005, Dr. John joined the faculty at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and was an attending psychiatrist in the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital. From 2006-2007, he was Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and worked as an Inpatient Psychiatry Attending. Dr. John returned to the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, where he currently serves as Medical Director of the Adult Outpatient Clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. John has published numerous journal articles in the areas of bipolar disorder, depression, psychosis, and metabolic syndrome. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards for teaching excellence, including the Senior Teaching Award in 2008. He has lectured to national and international audiences regarding "Toxic Leadership".
	President Emeritus, Treasurer, and Coordinator of the Center for the Study of Mind: Patricia Munhall, NCPsyA, Ed.D, CHt, CNLP has been a professor for twenty-five years, at Hunter College and Columbia University among other universities and a psychoanalyst for the past 16 years. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, New York and graduated from the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis (formerly PCNJ) and is a licensed and board certified psychoanalyst. She is an international speaker on phenomenology as a research method, psychoanalysis, human understanding, and an author or editor of eleven books and over 60 manuscripts focusing on qualitative research, unknowing, phenomenology and philosophical analysis. Patricia is founder and President Emeritus of the International Institute for Human Understanding, headquartered in Miami where she is currently in private practice.
	Secretary and Coordinator of the Center for Philosophy and Ethics: Kelley Flannery Rowan holds master’s degrees in piano performance and religious studies. After graduating from California State University, Fullerton she developed a successful piano studio which produced numerous award winning performers. Kelley’s Piano Studio operated for over 15 years in both Orange County, California and Miami, Florida. Before moving to Miami, Rowan joined the faculty at Crystal Cathedral Performing Arts Academy where she directed the piano program for several years. For the past ten years, Ms. Rowan has been teaching religion courses at Florida International University and both religion and music courses at Miami-Dade College. Her areas of research and interest include women’s issues and American religious history. She has also been part of the Barry University Adult and Continuing Education faculty. Ms. Rowan regularly lecturers within the Miami community and participates as an adjudicator and speaker at conferences. She has had a lively history of being active in various not for profit organizations in both California and Florida. She is currently the Coordinator of the Center for Philosophy and Ethics for the International Institute of Human Understanding. The center offers community workshops and lectures on diverse topics, helping to enrich the cultural fabric of Miami.
Honorary Board Members (2009)
	Arthur Michael Fournier, M.D. has been the standard of excellence in health care education and community service for the past three decades. Currently a professor and vice chairman of the Family Medicine & Community Health Department and the Associate Dean for Community Health Affairs, Dr. Fournier has been sharing his expertise in family medicine, internal medicine, nursing and community health affairs with students at the University of Miami School of Medicine since 1978. He has also served as adjunct professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Dartmouth Medical School since 1997. A frequently published academic, Dr. Fournier has written numerous monographs and journal articles. His publications have covered subjects including AIDS, coronary artery disease, and a wide array of subjects in internal medicine, family medicine and community health care. He has served as an editing reviewer for Chest and the Journal of General Internal Medicine since 1989 and more recently became an editing reviewer for American Journal of Preventive Medicine and Academic Medicine.
	Torben Riise a native of Denmark, has held executive positions in several large, international biotech companies for more than two decades and has been responsible for businesses in most parts of the world. After moving to the U.S. in 1987 on a corporate assignment, he established his own consulting business in 1990. Torben has a particular interest in the ethics of new technologies and in futures studies and is a frequent lecturer on these issues. He is member of the American Humanist Association, a fellow of The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence, and the Secretary and Treasurer of the International Institute for Human Understanding. He is the founder of Center for Humanism in South Florida and Culture in the City in Miami. He serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for Copenhagen/Denmark and as an advisory board member of Wonderful Copenhagen and Copenhagen Capacity. Torben’s primary focus today is writing. He is a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines in Miami, Denmark and other countries with a production of over hundred articles. He has three novels published and is finishing the libretto to a major musical, while drafting two others. Torben earned his Master’s in Chemical Engineering from DTU/Copenhagen, a PhD in biotechnology (fermentation) from The Brewer’s Academy/Copenhagen and an MBA in business economy from CBS/Copenhagen.
	Robert B. Tapp Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota. Dean Emeritus, The Humanist Institute, New York City. Faculty, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Minnesota. Prior appointments: University of Chicago, University of California, Scripps College, St. Lawrence University. Distinguished Fellow, Center For Inquiry. Executive Board, Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion Fellow, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Managing Editor at 1966 founding of Zygon, Journal of Religion and Science. Horace Mann Humanist Education Award, American Humanist Association 2005. Books: Religion among the Unitarian Universalists; Converts in the Stepfathers' House, 1973 Editor, Multiculturalism (2000), Ecohumanism (2002), The Fate of Democracy (2006).
	Dr. Joachim de Posada Named in 2009 one of the 25 Hot Speakers in the United States who are shaping the speaking profession by the National Speakers Association magazine. Awarded Most Distinguished Hispanic Speaker in the United States in 2007 at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Convention in San Juan, P.R. Speaker at TED in February 2009 and his session posted at www.ted.com surpassed the 1000 emailed talks in the first 30 days. "Posada is like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Norman Vincent Peale all rolled in one ... and he does it in two languages!"--Ray Pelletier Dr. Joachim de Posada is a highly qualified international motivational speaker and author based in San Juan, Puerto Rico who is fluent in English and Spanish. He specializes in sales, management, leadership and team building and has worked in more than fifty countries and the United States. Dr. Joachim de Posada holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Puerto Rico, a Master's degree and a Doctorate in Psychology. Serving as Director, Learning Systems Division of Xerox Corporation based in Stamford, Joachim had the best research in the industry available to him and participated in the development of some of the most successful sales training programs available today. He then became a consultant for Learning International and Achieve Global after the division was sold to Times Mirror Corporation. He helped Franklin Covey Corporation expand to Latin America, working in their international division as well as their domestic division. Joachim has traveled with his message, energy and passion on stage to address audiences in more than 50 countries. Some of his clients include Exxon Mobile, Merck, Verizon, Baxter, BBVA, the US National Guard, Sprint, Amadeus, American Airlines, and others listed at the end of this document. His motivational methods have been so successful that they have been transferred to the sports world. In the past he has been a consultant in Sports Psychology for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, the Los Angeles Lakers, Puerto Rican Professional teams and Olympic teams, motivating the players to achieve higher levels of performance. He is the main author of the book “Don’t Eat the Marshmallow…Yet: The secret to sweet success in work and in life” named the best book of the month by the New York Times and published by Penguin. This book has been translated into fifteen languages and it is now an international best seller having sold more than 2 million copies since its publication on Sept, 2005. Don´t Gobble the Marshmallow… Ever: The Secret to Sweet Success in times of Change, the sequel to his previous book was published on November 6th, 2007 and has already sold more than 500,000 copies. His other very successful book is “How to Survive among Piranhas: Motivation to Succeed”, a best seller in Latin America and in Korea. This book was published by Planeta, the largest Spanish publisher in the world and the seventh largest in the world. Presently, he writes a weekly column in the Business Monday Section of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun and has a daily motivational capsule three times a day in WOSO, the only commercial English Radio Station in San Juan, Puerto Rico.