Sarajane Brittis
Ph.D., is President and a Corporate Member of ICIS. She is a consultant and writer specializing in health care management and gerontological issues. Her areas of interest include improving long-term and community care for older adults and enhancing effective teamwork in organizations. After receiving her B.A. degree from Wellesley College, Dr. Brittis received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study attitudes towards old age in London, England and Tokyo, Japan. She received her M.Sc. degree in Sociology from Oxford University in England and her Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Her previous professional positions have included: Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, where she was principally responsible for the portfolio of gerontological nursing projects; Inaugural director of Village Center for Care's two Adult Day Health Care programs in Manhattan; and Coordinator of Social Services at the Jacquelyn Hernandez Adult Day Health Center at Cobble Hill Nursing Home in Brooklyn, New York.
Lamar Carter
Former Chairperson of the Board and past President of ICIS, he is one of several persons who worked closely with the founder of lCIS beginning the early 1960s. He is currently the Director of the ICIS Center for A Science of Hope and Hope Consulting Services and a member of the Advisory Council of the
ICIS Forum. He has been an independent organization development consultant in both the private and public sectors, nationally and internationally. In his early career, he was employed in human resources in E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Inc., and Standard Oil Company, N.J. (later Exxon Corporation) which included 10 years with the company in Venezuela. Recently he served as a member of faculty of The Leadership Institute of the National Council of Negro Women. Earlier, as Visiting Professor by Harvard Business School appointment, he taught the MBA course on organization behavior at the Central American School for Business Administration (INCAE) in Nicaragua. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He is an ICIS Corporate Member, a member of the Board of Directors and currently serves as Treasurer/Secretary.
Donna Christie
is Finance Manager and Corporate Secretary of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA). She is involved in the day-to-day financial management of RPA as well as its donor-advised fund, The Philanthropic Collaborative. Prior to joining RPA, she was Office Manager of the ICIS program, The Door - A Center of Alternatives. She also served as editor and production editor of the
ICIS Forum during its years as a publication in print form for international, multidisciplinary dialogue by correspondence among its members. She has worked in law firms in New York City and Washington, DC. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the ICIS Forum, an ICIS Corporate Member and a Member of the Board of Directors.
Bruce Cohen
J.D., Harvard Law School, A.B., University of Southern California. Counselor, educator, lawyer, Mr. Cohen is President of EMBERVISION®, a company that assists in the professional, academic, and personal development of a wide range of individuals from law, business, psychology, the sciences, the academic world, the media, and the arts. For over 25 years, Mr. Cohen has advised and guided talented people from across the US and from many countries around the world. He is a trained mediator and has lectured widely. He served as dean for international studies and the graduate program at Harvard Law School and as dean for student affairs and international programs at the Touro Law Center, playing a central role in the school's early development and internationalization. He is a current ICIS representative to the United Nations and a member of the ICIS Board of Directors.
F. Russell Kellogg
M.D. Board certified internist and geriatrician. In addition private practice, he has more than 24 years of service in the Department of Community Medicine at the Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers and was appointed as Department Chairman in July, 2005. Along with administrative duties, he continues to make home visits as a member of the Department’s nurse/social worker/physician teams that care for the frail homebound elderly in the Medical Centers’ long term home health care programs. Since 1988, he has served as the Medical Director of the programs. Dr. Kellogg makes significant contributions to peer-reviewed journals and medical trade publications, particularly in the areas of gerontology and long term home health care. He is senior editor of
Geriatric Home Health Care: Collaboration of Physicians, Nurses and Social Workers and has contributed to several journals including
JAGS, Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, Archives of Internal Medicine, and the
New England Journal of Medicine. He has also assumed the role as the Editor of the
Journal of Long Term Home Health Care and is the Director of the PRIDE Institute, Department of Community Medicine, St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers - St. Vincent's Manhattan. He is a Corporate Member of ICIS.
Steven Knoblauch
Ph.D. Faculty chair and supervisor, Independent Track of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; associate editor,
Psychoanalytic Dialogues: An International Journal of Relational Psychoanalysis; board member, World Foundation for Music and Healing; council member, International Council of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; editorial board member,
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; advisory board member, International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; author,
The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue, The Analytic Press, 2000. Co-author, with Beebe, Rustin and Sorter,
Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment, Other Press, 2005. Faculty and supervisor, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center.
Ruth Lynford
FASID, IIDA, CID and Associate AIA, she is President, Lynford Ltd., Architectural Interior Design. She is also President of Interior Designers for Legislation in NY. Other Board memberships include: International Council of Caring Communities, a non-governmental organization of the United Nations; the Association for the Study of Man/Environmental Relations; the Fashion Institute of Technology; and the New York Institute of Technology. She is coordinator and host of ICIS Salons, a Corporate Member of ICIS and member of the Board of Directors.
Laraine M. Mai
is past President of ICIS and Chair of the Board of ICIS and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She has over thirty-eight years of nonprofit leadership and management experience as a founder, executive, and consultant in the fields of education, youth services, international issues, and interfaith cooperation. In 2002 she launched RiverTides, an ICIS leadership education and consulting services program. Previously, she served as Vice-President of ICIS for Programs and Planning; was co-founder of The Door - A Center of Alternatives, a model multiservice center for adolescents; designed and established an experimental high school; and conducted research and demonstration projects addressing learning and adolescents. She also served as the first Executive Director of the Interfaith Center of New York and the Executive Director of Wainwright House. Civic involvement includes: Member of the Board of the Mid-Hudson Valley World Affairs Council, the National Advisory Council of the NewYork Open Center, the International Advisory Council of CANHELP, Svenshogen, Sweden, and the Founders' Council of The Interfaith Center of New York. She is an ICIS Corporate Member.
William J. Paul
Ph.D. Partner, Deltech Consulting Group which specializes in the management of complex change, strategic thinking, leadership team development, technology introduction and valuing differences - in both private and public sectors, nationally and internationally. He is Former Director, North-Paul (consultants) in Europe, and was Organization Development Advisor, Exxon Chemical Company in Europe and U.S. He held an Appointment as the Raoul de Vitry d'Avencourt Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He was Recipient of the APA Cattell Award for Excellence. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of ICIS, was a member of the planning group from which emerged the idea for establishing the ICIS Center for A Science of Hope in the mid-1980s and is a Member of the Advisory Council of the
ICIS Forum. He is a Corporate Member of ICIS.
Irene B. Seeland
M.D. Psychiatrist, whose major professional concerns throughout her life have been to work with the critically and terminally ill, their families and the health professions who care for them. In the past 30 years she has held teaching and clinical appointments at several medical universities and teaching hospitals in New York. She was co-founder and co-administrator of The Door - A Center of Alternatives, an ICIS project which is a multi-service center for adolescents in New York City, nationally and internationally acknowledged as a model for integrated youth services. She continues to offer lectures, seminars and workshops for health care providers and others on the issues of death, grief and loss. She has worked in the field of holistic, complementary and energy medicine. Her interests are in the area of human consciousness and healing: of the individual, the community and the planet. She is a Member of the Advisory Council of the
ICIS Forum and an ICIS Corporate Member.
Rolland Smith
is a former anchor for WWOR-TV, “News at Ten.� He has over forty years of professional broadcast experience as an anchor, reporter, producer and commentator. During his career he has been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with 25 Emmy nominations and was the recipient of 10 Emmy Awards. Highlights of his forty years in broadcasting include presidential interviews, frontline coverage of the Vietnam War, anchoring the international broadcast feed of “Live Aid� to an audience in excess of 2 billion, and being the first journalist to accompany the U.S. Geological Survey Team inside Mt. St. Helens after the volcano's devastating eruption. His extensive experience in broadcasting along with his expressed interest in global issues, including the future of the environment (both physical and spiritual), have made him highly sought-after as a public speaker. His speaking engagements often include readings from his poetry, in which he uses the magic of rhyme as another avenue to communicate his viewpoint. His first book of poetry,
Quiet Musings, was nationally released in August, 1995, and was soon followed by his first CD
Syl.la.bles, which combines beautiful original music with his own poetry readings. He is a Corporate Member of ICIS.
