Elise Wilson is Heal Ukraine Traumas’ Executive Director. Elise’s experience is in humanitarian response and international development; she has focused her work on supporting people affected by conflict. Prior to joining Heal Ukraine Trauma, Elise worked with several US based nonprofits and international organizations including UNICEF and IOM. Elise holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown as well as a B.A. in International Relations and B.S. in Hospitality Administration from Boston University.

Elizabeth Ames is a co-founder, CEO, and Treasurer of Heal Ukraine Trauma. Elizabeth’s career has spanned private, public, not-for-profit and international sectors. She served in the Massachusetts State Cabinet and also as Senior Policy Advisor for Economic Affairs and Technology to two Governors. She has 30 years’ country-wide experience in Ukraine and was a pioneer in the former Soviet Union’s transition to a free-market economy. Elizabeth holds a BA from Yale, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Neeka Levy is a Registered Nurse working with Veterans as an Acute Psychiatric Staff Nurse. She is a Psychedelic Researcher and Policy Advocate. She has a BS in Neuroscience and Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Russian-speaking daughter of Jewish-Ukrainian Refugees and is a first-generation American. Given her life experience and cultural background, she emphasizes holistic high-quality psychiatric services. She received MAPS facilitator training for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and is a trained Medical and Psychiatric Assessor for psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is continuing her education at Johns Hopkins University as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Doctor of Nursing Practice student while becoming a Psychedelic Practitioner.

Zach (he/him) is a psychologist, and primary therapist with the Social Neuroscience and Psychotherapy (SNaP) Lab at the Portland VA, supporting trials of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for methamphetamine use disorder and MDMA-assisted group psychotherapy for PTSD. He acts as the resident psychologist for Heroic Hearts Project, supporting wellness retreats for veterans and spouses with ayahuasca and psilocybin. Zach also continues his work as a therapist for The Mission Within, serving Special Forces communities with a regiment of ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT. As an educator with the Center of the Science of Psychedelics at UC Berkeley, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, his focus aligns military and veteran culture with traditional medicine practice.

Iryna has 20 years of management experience in event management and communications. She has worked with commercial companies and a number of public and non-profit projects.

She is a co-founder and director of the Zalizniy tato publishing house and she is an author of children's books.

Iryna holds a PhD in philosophy from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Anne Wallentine is a writer and communications consultant who applies her expertise across the fields of arts and health. She has held leadership positions in several communications firms, working primarily with healthcare and biopharmaceutical clients on strategic communications. She regularly provides independent journalism for outlets that include The Financial Times, The Economist, the Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Anne graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and earned her master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Leah is a student at Duke University, pursuing a Program II in Psychiatry & Law. She has always been passionate about mental health initiatives that emphasize trauma-informed care. Her Program II explores this interest in the context of taking a holistic approach to understanding drug medicine and culture, which has attracted her to HUT’s mission. She aspires to be a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the future.

Diana is a Ukrainian student at Williams College. Before joining Heal Ukraine Trauma, she was part of an anthropology research team filming a documentary on Ukrainian and Afghan refugees in Europe. Witnessing mental health challenges of the interviewees made her passionate about supporting mental health initiatives in Ukraine.

As a trained neuropharmacologist and a registered pharmacist, Olga has held a number of roles in clinical trial management, drug development, biotech, and pharmaceutics. Dr. Chernoloz is a specialist in the pharmacology of psychoactive compounds. Olga has extensive experience in the research of psychoactive compounds for mental health and neurological applications. In this arena, she provides strategic advisory on clinical development, scientific due diligence, and full-cycle clinical trial management.

Dr. Chernoloz has developed a program for Continued Medical Education in Psychedelic Medicine. She is a scientific advisor to Psychedelics Studies Research Group at University of Toronto. Olga is interested in the therapeutic potential of psychoactive drugs in the treatment of mental health disorders and the improvement of quality of life in healthy individuals. Dr. Chernoloz authored a number of original research articles and a chapter in an instructional book on Neurobiology of Mood Disorders. Olga is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa where she teaches Neuroscience of Psychedelics.

Diego is an experienced CTO and software engineer, formerly an MIT trained applied scientist, with a passion for leveraging technology to help improve people's lives. He has deep experience taking mobile and web products from ideation all the way to user's devices for both big and small brands alike. He does this by collaborating closely with key stakeholders, compassionately building and leading multi-disciplinary teams, and focusing on user needs over profit. He's excited to combine his deep experience in tech and passion for social impact to help HUT succeed in their digital efforts.

Colin Greenstreet is an experienced healthcare executive and entrepreneur. Colin was previously VP, R&D Strategy at GlaxoWellcome (now GSK). He founded several companies, including a healthcare professional services company. Earlier in his career, Colin worked in consulting at Booz Allen and McKinsey. He earned a BA in philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Business School, where he received an MBA. Colin lives in London.

Iryna Frankova, M.D., PhD, is an assistant professor at the department of clinical, neuro- and developmental psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and senior researcher at the ARQ centrum 45, the Netherlands. She is a chair of the Traumatic Stress Network, European college of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). Iryna is also an assistant at the department of medical psychology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine. Her main interests are secondary prevention of PTSD, digital interventions in promotion of mental health and wellbeing, and global mental health.

Humanitarian, author, and registered clinical counsellor. Jennifer has been director of her company Van Wyck Consulting for over 10 years and has served thousands of clients. She has received a Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada for her humanitarian work during the Ebola response in West Africa, and over the last 12 years has set up mental health programs all over the world helping people to recover from war, natural disasters and epidemics. Her book "The Good Thing About Mortar Shells: Choosing love over fear" was a best seller in multiple categories at its release in 2020. The book is about how to deeply connect with your heart and intuition to hear the message your emotions are trying to give you so that you can get the results you want and make the world a better place. Her passion is teaching people how to see and feel the love that is inside and all around them.

Dennis Ougrin is child and adolescent psychiatrist. He currently leads the Youth Resilience Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London and a global mental health studies program aimed at developing community mental health services in Ukraine and other Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Previously, he led the MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King’s College London and acted as the Chief Investigator of major NIHR, MRC, and charity-funded studies in the field of self-harm and intensive community care services. From 2018-2020, Dennis was the editor-in-chief of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Dennis has expertise in conducting randomized controlled trials in the fields of psychological therapy and mental health service models, the results of which have informed the development of intensive community care services in the UK and internationally.

Oleh Orlov is a co-founder of HUT and the Ukrainian Psychedelic Research Association, the deputy director for research and experimentation at the Yarmachenko Institute of Special Education and Psychology of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, an expert on psychological crisis intervention at the Alliance for Public Health, expert at the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, and a private counseling psychologist. Oleh has extensive psychological research experience, leading various research projects as the principal investigator, publishing 11 peer-reviewed articles, and publishing four books and book chapters on mental health and the healthcare system in Ukraine. Oleh holds a BA, Ph.D., and MA in counseling psychology, psychology and special education, and project management.