Keynote Speakers

Brian Muraresku, JD

The Immortality Key

Christof Koch, PhD

Consciousness, Integrated Information Theory, and the Brain

Psychiatric Applications | Psychedelics for Substance Use Disorders

Nathalie Rieser, PhD

Psilocybin for Alcohol Use Disorder

Stacey Armstrong, PhD

Prospective associations of psychedelic treatment for co-occuring alcohol misuse and posttraumatic stress symptoms among United States Special Operations Forces Veterans

Stephen Ross, MD

Psychedelic Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: Evidence Base & Gaps

Non-Psychiatric Applications | Psychedelics for Neurodegeneration and Neurotrauma

Kirsten Cherian, PhD

Ibogaine treatment for traumatic brain injury in Special Forces Veterans

Ellen Bradley, MD

Psilocybin therapy for depression in Parkinson's disease

Charles Nichols, PhD

Psychedelics are potent anti-inflammatory agents

Serotonergic Psychedelics | Multi-Scale Mechanisms of Action

Nathalie Rieser, PhD

Psilocybin for Alcohol Use Disorder

Natalie Gukasyan, MD

Menstrual effects of classic psychedelics and other considerations for reproductive health

Joshua Siegel, MD, PhD

Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

Dissociative Psychedelics | Multi-Scale Mechanisms of Action

Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD

Unlocking the therapeutic action of anesthetics with psychedelic effects in neuropsychiatric diseases by imaging into the intact living rodent brain

Tom Joseph, MD, PhD

Ketamine: From the molecular level to the bedside and beyond

Jason Wallach, PhD

A Historical and Pharmacological Overview of Dissociatives

History, Sociology and Anthropology

Jacob Green

A Historical Perspective on Sexual Misconduct in Psychedelic Therapy

Andrew Jones

Not the Mothers, but the Chemicals: Abram Hoffer's Adrenochrome Theory of Infantile Autism

Bianca Schnarr, MS

Cannabis Use from Past to Present: Lessons on intentional practice, and overlaps with psychedelia

Law and Public Policy

David Feldman

Unique Challenges in Law Practice in the Psychedelics and Cannabis Industries

Dillan DiNardo

A Biotech Perspective on Key Regulatory Issues in the Psychedelics Industry 

Allison Hoots, Esq

Enforceability and Ethical Issues of Exculpatory Agreements with Controlled Substances

Ontology and Metaphysics 

Valeria McCarroll, PhD, LMFT

Coloring Outside the Lines: Psychedelics and Transgressing the Borders of the Patriarchal Paradigm

Christof Koch, PhD

Beyond Physicalism– Looking at the World with Fresh Eyes

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, PhD

Pantheism and Psychedelics

Ethics and Philosophy

Joanna Kempner, PhD

Virtuous Outlaws: Ethical Lessons the Psychedelic Community Can Learn from the Clusterbusters

Dominic Sisti, PhD

Virtuous Outlaws: Ethical Lessons the Psychedelic Community Can Learn from the Clusterbusters

Gail Serruya, MD

The Wild West of Ketamine

Ruth Charbonneau, JD, RN

Cannabis Rescheduling

Therapeutic Facilitation and Integration

Rachel Harris, PhD

Swimming in the Sacred - Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground

Jennifer Jones, PhD, LMFT

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with BIPOC and Queer Clients

Aisha Mohammad, LMFT

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with BIPOC and Queer Clients

Glauber Loures de Assis, PhD

How to Develop Good Practices in the Ceremonial Use of Psychedelics: Facilitation, Integration and Counter Coloniality

Industry and Finance

Michael Hoyos

To be announced

Elliot Marseille, DrPH, MPP

Psilocybin in Clinical Depression: Demand Dynamics and Cost-Effectiveness Insights

Jessica Tracy

Psychedelics, Access & Insurance 

Special Topics in Psychedelic Studies

David Rosen, PhD

PRoMiSS: Psychedelics and the Role of Music in Set and Setting

Isaac Hametz

Interconnectedness, Emptiness, and Activity: Integrating Spirituality and Psychedelics in Landscape Practice

Camila Carolina Romero dos Santos

Indigenous Cosmovision, Spirituality and the Power of Master Plants: the sacredness of Traditional Healing Ceremonies and cultural practices

Plenary Talks

Nese Devenot, PhD

Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Foundations of a New Psychedelic Field

Andres Gomez Emilsson

Novel Methods to Visualize Exotic States of Consciousness

David Glowacki, PhD

VR models of death & psychedelics: A ‘Numadelic’ design paradigm

Allison Wilson

Healing Heroines: Strategies for Psychedelic Support for Veterans and Their Families

Emily Oneschuk

Healing Heroines: Strategies for Psychedelic Support for Veterans and Their Families

Psychology and Phenomenology

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, PhD

Pantheism and Psychedelics

Meghan DellaCrosse, PsyD

Contextualizing psychedelic experiences: Adapting Ecological Systems Theory (EST) for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAP) Research and Beyond

Pascal Michael, PhD

Psychedelics, near-death experiences and the challenge & integration of metaphysical experience