Ilan Kutz, MD

Ilan Kutz, MD, is a former assistant professor of psychiatry on the staff of Tel-Aviv University and former head of the psychiatric services at Meir General Hospital, and clinical director of its acute stress and trauma intervention unit. For the past decade, he has served as a consultant for the PTSD unit at the Segol Hyperbaric-Oxygen Research Center at the Shamir Medical Center. He continues working as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in his private practice.

For several decades, Dr. Kutz had developed methods for treating mass casualty events following terrorist attacks, educating mental health professionals around Israel and abroad. He devised a method for immediate assessment of Acute Stress Reaction (ASR) and risk prediction of subsequent stress disorders and helped develop a phase-oriented intervention-model for treating Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) in victims of terrorist attacks. As a consulting psychiatrist, he assisted the staff of the mental health clinic in the rocket-bombarded town of Sderot.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Ilan Kutz has an employment relationship with Shamir Medical Center. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Ilan Kutz has no relevant non-financial relationships.