Who we are
ICAR Collective brings together leading experts in medicine, psychology, public health, philanthropy, and investment, who are committed to accelerating trauma healing to safeguard the health, productivity, and security of Israel.
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Oded Arbel
Head of the Psychedelic Research and Treatment Center at Beer Sheva Mental Health Center
Prof. Ran Balicer
Chief Innovation & Deputy- DG at Clalit Health Service
Prof. Amit Bernstein
Psychology at University of Haifa, Director of the Observing Minds Lab
Dr. Tali Shmueli
Chief Psychiatrist at Maccabi Health Services
Prof. Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Emotional Processing Lab of the Multi-disciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan
Thomas Huebl, Ph.D.
Collective Trauma expert and Chair of The Pocket Project
Prof. Jonathan Huppert
Former Chair of Clinical Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Yossi Levi-Belz
Chair of The Lior Tsfaty Center for Suicide & Mental Pain Studies at Ruppin Academic Center
Prof. Orly Manor
Chairman of the Board at the Israel National Insitute for Health Policy Research
Prof. Mario Mikulincer
Founding Dean and former Head of the Ph.D. program in Psychology at Reichman
Prof. Zahava Solomon
Head of the Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence for Mass Trauma Research at Tel Aviv University
Prof. David Silbersweig
Chairman Emeritus Dept. of Psychiatry at Brigham & Women's Hospital; Director of the center for the Neurosciences; Former Academic Dean at Harvard Medical School
Prof. Yuval Neria
Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology at the Dpt of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute
Prof. Charles Marmar
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center