The Rhode Island Israel Collaborative (RIIC) is pleased to announce that in its recent board meeting, February 22nd, the board elected to add two new distinguished members to the board; Dr. Alex Cutler and Dr. Sean O'Callaghan.
Avi Nevel, Founder and CEO and the current board members are very excited about the addition of the two new members, as they will bring more depth and exposure for the board, for the community in Rhode Island and in Israel.
Dr. Alex Cutler is in the field of medicine and Dr. Sean O'Callaghan is in the field of academia.
Official Press Release
Dr. Alex Cutler
Alex Cutler is a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine/NY State American program in Tel Aviv, Israel. Alex earned a bachelor’s in neuroscience with a minor in Spanish from Bates College, and a master’s in medical science from Boston University. After graduating from Bates College in 2001, he spent the summer volunteering on ambulances with Magen David Adom (MDA) and he is the current chair of the northeast regional board of MDA. Alex is currently self employed in private practice in Worcester, MA, and also the consulting psychiatrist to Clark University, College of the Holy Cross and Assumption University. Married in Yaffo in 2010, Alex moved to Providence, RI in 2017. He lives with his wife May-Tal who is an infertility doctor at Woman & Infant’s Hospital/Brown University. He has 2 children who attend the Jewish Community Day School (JCDS). See also link to his professional webpage.
Dr. Sean O’Callaghan
Dr. Sean O'Callaghan grew up in Ireland, but spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom until he arrived at Salve Regina. His main area of expertise is in the field of world religions, particularly Islam, and in the ways in which mainstream religion can be transformed by its evolution into new forms, such as new religious movements and new spiritualities, many of which have a significant and growing online presence. Dr. O'Callaghan is also interested in the relationship between religion and violence and by the ways in which this is often expressed in apocalyptic and millennialist contexts. Another area of interest is in transhumanism and new technologies that are emerging from that field, as well as the questions which are raised by new technological forms of warfare, either in cyberspace or in the theater of war. He previously taught at a private university affiliated to the University of Manchester and at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Webpage
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