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Nathaniel Laor, MD, PhD (May 2024)

Nathaniel Laor, MD, PhD (Phil.) is Professor Emeritus formerly with the Departments of Psychiatry and Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. He is also Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. He is Founder and Director, Cohen-Harris Resilience Center, and Clinical and Academic Chair, OTI The Israeli Autism Association. 
Prof. Laor served as Professional Director of the National “Leon H. Charny Urban Resilience Pilot Program” (2010-14), under the leadership of Israel’s Ministry of Defense and National Emergency Management Authority. Under his leadership, Cohen-Harris Resilience Center developed an empirically validated Trauma-Prevention School Resilience Program that has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education for the Israeli primary school system. The Center has been operating the Israeli School for Teaching and Training of Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy for PTSD as well as an online Diadic
PE Therapy Website (Atem-et) for traumatized children.
Following the disastrous events of October 7th, Professor Laor was invited to join as member the Israel National Council for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He and his staff have led interventions with post traumatic individuals and families in a community of survivor evacuees and established an online short-term therapy program for post traumatic children nationwide. 
Facing the collective trauma affecting the Israeli people, Prof. Laor has developed interventions with traumatized communities and has recently joined two other leading NGOs specializing in post-disaster and trauma relief as well as resilience building to establish, jointly with Keren Hayesod, an innovative program, Fortitude for Israel, to be implemented nationwide. This new program is going beyond resilience, focusing on the ability of communities to re-emerge from catastrophe, stronger than ever.
Professor Laor has authored over 150 professional papers, book chapters, monographs, and books. His research and publications encompass a broad spectrum
of topics, including: Medicine (professionionalism, health policy, ethics); Psychology and Psychiatry (mass trauma, resilience, psychopathology and psychophysiology); and
Philosophy (philosophy of the social sciences, ethics, applied philosophy).