Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Ph.D., is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland Baltimore County and President Emeritus, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation.
He is an adjunct faculty member in the Emergency Management Institute of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He developed a comprehensive, integrated, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention program called "Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)." He is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health. Since 1980, Dr. Mitchell has authored 16 books and over 270 articles on traumatic stress, Critical Incident Stress Management, and crisis intervention.
Dr. Mitchell, a recipient of the Austrian Red Cross Bronze Medal for his crisis intervention work, is a Fellow with the AmericanAcademy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and he is a co-director of the Resiliency Sciences Institutes of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is an Expert Consultant to the United Nations Department of Safety and Security Working Group on Stress.
