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The TOP DD Network Study Research Team

Network RCT Principal Investigator: Bethany Brand, Ph.D., from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.  Co-Principal Investigator: Hygge Schielke, Ph.D., from Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Senior Research Consultants: Frank Putnam, M.D. (University of North Carolina and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center); Richard Loewenstein, M.D. (University of Maryland Medical School).  North American Research Consultants: Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. and Paul Frewen, Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario); Amie Myrick, L.C.P.C. (Family & Children’s Services of Central Maryland); Clare Pain MD, MSc., FRCPC and Catherine Classen, Ph.D. (University of Toronto); Kathy Steele, M.N., C.S., Metropolitan Counseling Services.  European Research Consultants: Suzette Boon, Ph.D., private practice, the Netherlands; Ellen Jepsen, M.D., Ph.D., Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Norway.


Richard Loewenstein, M.D.

Richard Loewenstein

Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of MD School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. He founded and from 1987-2020 was Medical Director of The Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt, Baltimore, MD. He is Section Editor, Dissociative Disorders, DSM-5 Text Revision, and Co-editor of the 4th Revision ISSTD Guidelines for Treatment of DID in adults. He is a distinguished life fellow, APA and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ISSTD.