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Core Faculty > Stevan Weine
 Stevan Weine, a psychiatrist, is a researcher, writer, teacher and clinician in the Department of Psychiatry and the Health Research and Policy Centers of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is co-founder and co-director of the Project on Genocide, Psychiatry and Witnessing, which provides family-focused community based mental health services to Bosnians, conducts interdisciplinary research on survivors, and engages in mental health reform in post-war countries. His scholarly work focuses on familial, cultural and historical dimensions of traumatization. He is principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health funded research study called "A Prevention and Access Intervention for Survivor Families" that is investigating the Coffee and Family Education and Support intervention with Bosnian and Kosovar families in Chicago. In 2001, he was awarded a Career Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health on "Services Based Research with Refugee Families" for which he is conducting an ethnography of Bosnian adolescents and their families. Weine is author of a book of based upon survivor's oral histories called When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rutgers, 1999). He is currently writing, "Living Histories", a narrative inquiry of diverse testimony readings from within four different 20th century socio-historical occurrences of political violence. Weine is also Chair of the Task Force on International Trauma Training of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and principal co-author of the "Guidelines for International Trauma Training of Practitioners in Clinical and Community Settings". He is co-founder of the Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative and Services and Scientific Director the Services Based Training for Kosovar Community Mental Health and Prevention which is building family-focused community based public mental health services in Kosova.
Contact Information:
Stevan Weine M.D.
1601 West Taylor Street, 5th floor
Chicago, IL 60612
Telephone: 312-339-8416
Fax: 847-491-1388
E-mail: smweine@uic.edu
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