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Visionary Women: Transforming Psychedelic Medicine

Rachel Yehuda

Vicky Dulai, founder of Compassion For Addiction, a non-profit dedicated to a trauma informed and psychedelic medicine approach to treating addiction, and board member of MAPS, will moderate a discussion with Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corporation, and Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., an endowed professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Trauma at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The women will talk about lessons they have learned along the way and how they are leading the way in the psychedelic space.

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