Chris E. Stout
Dr Chris E Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist who has a varied background in multiple domains. He is the founding director of the Center for Global Initiatives (CGI)[1] which was ranked as a Top Healthcare Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits.[2] His entrepreneurial experience is demonstrated in multiple ventures that include the areas of financial management, healthcare start-ups,[3][4] engineering, two dot-coms, real estate, and executive coaching. He currently directs the Department of Research at ATI Physical Therapy, a national Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation organization.[5]
Career
Dr. Stout currently directs the Department of Research at ATI Physical Therapy, a national Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation organization.[5] He is also a clinical full professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry; an advisory board member to the College of Medicine’s Center for Global Health;[6] a fellow in the School of Public Health Leadership Institute, and was a core faculty at the International Center on Responses to Catastrophes at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He also holds an academic appointment in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Global Health and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ Mental Health Services and Policy Program,[7] and was a visiting professor in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University. He served as a non-governmental organization special representative to the United Nations.[8]
He has served as Chief of Psychology, Director of Research, and Senior VP of an integrated behavioral healthcare system during a 15 year tenure. He served as Illinois’ first Chief of Psychological Services for the Department of Human Services/Division of Mental Health–having made him the highest ranking psychologist in the State of Illinois and a committed reformer of psychology within the governmental setting.[9] He also served as Chief Clinical Information Officer for the State’s Division of Mental Health in 2004–a Cabinet-level position. He is the first psychologist to have an invited appointment to the Lake County Board of Health.[10] He was elected to APA’s Committee on International Relations in Psychology and served three years, one of which as Co-Chair.[11][12]
He was appointed by the Secretary of the US Department of Commerce to the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners,[13] as well as numerous other organizations. He is one of 100 world-wide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Leaders of Tomorrow 2000[14] – joining the ranks of Tony Blair, Jody Foster, Bill Gates, R. J. Rowling, and Lance Armstrong, and he was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos.[15]
He was invited by the Club de Madrid[16] and Safe-Democracy[17] to serve on the Madrid-11 Countering Terrorism Task Force. He is the founder of GordianKnot, LLC, an executive leadership consultancy[18] and he currently runs Research and Development for a national sports and rehabilitation medicine organization with $300M in annual revenues.[19]
Dr. Stout is a Fellow in three Divisions of the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice.[20] He was appointed as a Special (Citizen) Ambassador and Delegation Leader to South Africa and Eastern Europe by the Eisenhower Foundation.[21] He serves as Acquisitions Editor for the Journal of Disability Medicine,[22] and is the Series Editor of Contemporary Psychology (Praeger)[23] and “Getting Started” (Wiley & Sons).[24] He produced the critically acclaimed [25] four volume set The Psychology of Terrorism and more recently, the highly praised and award–winning three volume set, The New Humanitarians, and is an Amazon.com Best Selling Author (reaching a #11 ranking).[25]
Publications & Awards
Additionally, he has published or presented over 300 papers and 30 books/manuals on various topics in psychology, including the popular Evidence-Based Practice (Wiley & Sons, 2005, with R. Hayes). His works have been translated into 8 languages. He has lectured across the nation and internationally in over 20 countries, and visited 6 continents and over 80 countries. He was noted as being “one of the most frequently cited psychologists in the scientific literature” in a study by Hartwick College. He is the 2004 winner of the American Psychological Association’s International Humanitarian Award,[26] the 2006 recipient of the Illinois Psychological Association’s Humanitarian Award,[27] the 2008 recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s Humanitarian Award, and the 2009 winner of APA’s Division on International Psychology’s Outstanding Psychologist Award.[28] He is an inaugural Inductee into both his high school’s and Purdue University’s Hall of Fame.
Purdue School of Engineering named a scholarship (funded in perpetuity) in his honor for students conducting research, service or international projects.[29] He has won awards for public service announcements he’s written and produced as well as for his photography — one was displayed in the Smithsonian. [citation needed]
Humanitarian Activities
His humanitarian activities include going on international missions[30] with the Flying Doctors of America to Vietnam, Rwanda, Peru, and the Amazon; War Child in Russia; having worked with the Kovler Center (for Refugee Survivors of Torture), Amnesty International, RWJ Foundation, the Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. He founded a kindergarten for AIDS orphaned children in Tanzania and continues as a consultant.[31] He also was a delegate at the State of the World Forum in Belfast. He is a signatory to the UN’s 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He is the inventor of the “52 Ways to Change the World” card deck. He is listed in Fast Co.’s Global Fast 50 nominees along with TED Conferences Founder Richard Saul Wurman’s “Who’s Really Who, 1000: The Most Creative Individuals in America”[32] and is a widely read and followed LinkedIn Influencer.[33]
Press
He has been interviewed on many radio, cable, local, and national television programs (e.g., CNBC, CNN, WGN, NBC, PBS, NPR,[34] Medical Rounds, Chicago Tonight, CL-TV, Oprah, Eye On Harvard, Christina, Bertise Berry, et al.), and by numerous publications[35] (Time, Chicago Tribune[36] The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Women’s Day, Modern Healthcare, Associated Press, Child Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Windy City Sports, NorthShore Magazine, Monitor on Psychology, ...). He coined the term “Emmortality”[37] and numerous registered service-marks. He was an American Delegate and presenter at the 1st International Conference on Unconventional Computing. A unique and distinct honor was his being named one of ten Volunteers of the Year by Pioneer Press in 1999, for his global efforts, and both the Senate and House similarly recognized his work by proclamation of “Dr. Chris E. Stout Week.”
Personal
His current interests are in the multidisciplinary aspects of global psychology and healthcare, complex systems, evidence-based practice, and battling mediocrity. He’s an avid endurance- and adventure-sportsman as an ultra-marathon runner, certified diver (Blue Hole, Great Barrier Reef, narco- and shark-dives), and an devoted (albeit amateur) alpinist,[38] having thus far summited three of the world’s Seven Summits as well as Mount Rainier, and Mount Whitney (tallest in 49 states), Yosemite’s Half-Dome, Pikes Peak (with his daughter) and he founded Summits For Others.org,[39] much of which is documented in his forthcoming book “A Life In Full: The List of A Lifetime.” He also shows concours-winning vintage BMW motorcycles and Porsches as well as builds custom café racers, but his greatest joy comes from being with his best friend and wife, Dr. Karen Beckstrand and their two children, Grayson and Annika.
Education
Dr. Stout was educated at Purdue University, The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and Forest Institute,[40] gaining over twenty-four awards and four scholarships; including, the Purdue Distinguished Academic Performance Award, the Purdue Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award, and Valedictorian of his doctoral class. He obtained post-doctoral experience at Harvard Medical School as a Fellow in neuro-developmental behavioral pediatrics. He received his second doctorate in clinical psychology (honoris causa) from Argosy University and his third doctorate (in technology, honoris causa) from Purdue University College of Engineering[41]
He was awarded “Distinguished Alumni of the Year from Purdue University” in 1991, Federal Advocacy awards from AAP (1997) and APA (1998), the Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy (1999)[42] and IPA’s Distinguished Psychologist of the Year (1999) in addition to over 30 other post-doctoral awards.
Bibliography
1992-1993
- Levitt, John, Stout E., Chris, & Ruben, Douglas Handbook of Assessing and Treating Addictive Disorders (1992) ISBN 978-0313276347
- Koziol, Leonard, Ruben, Douglas, & Stout E., Chris Handbook on child impulse disorders and ADD: Theory and practice (1993)
- Ruben, Douglas, Morris Bear Squire, & Stout E., Chris Current advances in inpatient psychiatric services (1993) ISBN 978-0313280467
- Ruben, Douglas & Stout E., Chris Transitions: Handbook of managed care for inpatient to outpatient care (1993) ISBN 978-0275940645
- Stout E., Chris From the other side of the couch: Candid conversations with psychiatrists and psychologists (1993) ISBN 978-0313277658
1996-1998
- Koziol, Leonard & Stout E., Chris The neuropsychology of mental disorders: A practical guide (1996) ISBN 978-0398062132
- Stout E., Chris, Oher M., James, Theis A., Gerald The Complete Guide to Managed Behavioral Health Care (1996) ISBN 978-0471125860
- Stout E., Chris The Integration of Psychological Principles in Policy Development (1996) ISBN 978-0275950118
- Stout E., Chris Annals of Clinical Research (1997) ISBN 978-1890056070
- Stout E., Chris The Continuum of Care Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners) (1997) ISBN 978-0471195689
- Stout E., Chris Managing Capitation and Outcomes in Mental Health (1997) ISBN 978-1890056025
- Stout E., Chris Psychological Assessment in Managed Care (1997) ISBN 978-0471170334
- Stout E., Chris Risk Management & Reliability Issues (1997-01) ISBN 978-1890056049
- Stout E., Chris Technology Solutions Sourcebook for Behavioral Health Practice (1998) ISBN 978-1884937538
2002-2003
- Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Terrorism: The Psychology of Terrorism: Volume I, A Public Understanding (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) (2002) ISBN 978-0275978655
- Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Terrorism: The Psychology of Terrorism: Volume II, Clinical Aspects and Responses (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) (2002) ISBN 978-0275978662
- Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Terrorism: The Psychology of Terrorism: Volume III, Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) (2002) ISBN 978-0275978679
- Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Terrorism: The Psychology of Terrorism: Volume IV, Programs and Practices in Response and Prevention (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) (2002) ISBN 978-0275978686
- Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Terrorism: Four Volume Set (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) (2002) ISBN 978-0275977719
- Fairley G., Stephen, Stout E., Chris Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching: How to Create a Thriving Coaching Practice (2003) ISBN 978-0471426240
2004-2005
- Grand C., Laurie & Stout E. Chris Getting Started in Private Practice: The Complete Guide to Building Your Mental Health Practice (2004) ISBN 978-0471426233
- Jongsma E., Arthur, Jongsma E., Arthur Jr., & Stout E., Chris The College Student Counseling Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners) (2004) ISBN 978-0471467083
- Langholtz J., Harvey, Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Diplomacy (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) (2004) ISBN 978-0275971441
- Stout E., Chris, Hayes A., Randy The Evidence-Based Practice: Methods, Models, and Tools for Mental Health Professionals (2004) ISBN 978-0471467472
- Stout E., Chris Psychology of Terrorism, Condensed Edition: Coping with the Continuing Threat (Contemporary Psychology) (2005) ISBN 978-0275982072
- Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace: Volume 3 - Interventions (2005) ISBN 978-0275982102
- Fitzduff, Mari, Stout E., Chris The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts [Three Volumes]: From War to Peace (Contemporary Psychology) (2005) ISBN 978-0275982010
2006-2013
- Kimmel, Paul, Stout E., Chris Collateral Damage: The Psychological Consequences of America's War on Terrorism (Contemporary Psychology) (2006) ISBN 978-0275988265
- Stout E., Chris The New Humanitarians: Inspirations, Innovations, and Blueprints for Visionaries, Volume 1, Changing Global Health Inequities (2008) ISBN 978-0275997687
- Stout E., Chris The New Humanitarians: Inspiration, Innovations, and Blueprints for Visionaries, Volume 2 Changing Education and Relief (2008) ISBN 978-0275997687
- Stout E., Chris The New Humanitarians: Inspiration, Innovations, and Blueprints for Visionaries, Volume 3 Changing Sustainable Development and Social Justice (2008) ISBN 978-0275997687
- Kruger, Matt, Stout E., Chris, Rogers, Jeff "Current Perspectives in Clinical Treatment and Management in Worker's Compensation Cases" (2011) ASIN B0083ECQDO
- Stout E., Chris Brainpower: Tools and Tips for Mental Sharpness, Improved Memory, and A Better Life? No Matter How Old You Are (2012) ISBN 978-1480214316
- Stout E., Chris Getting Better at Private Practice (2012) ISBN 978-0470903988
- Stout E., Chris Meaningful Productivity: A 12 Month Guide and Tools to Help You Do More That Matters (2013) ISBN 978-1482068177
References
- ↑ "Dr. Chris E. Stout"
- ↑ "Center for Global Initiatives - Volunteer & donor opportunities, services, mission, contact information and reviews on GreatNonprofits". Greatnonprofits.org. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ↑ "Yellow Brick Program"
- ↑ "Timberline Knolls"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Purdue University Honors ATI Physical Therapy Director of Research Dr. Chris Stout", ATI Physical Therapy News, May 21, 2013
- ↑ "Guest Speaker Dr. Chris Stout", UIC
- ↑ "Chris E Stout, PsyD, Faculty Profile", Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- ↑ "SPSSI and the United Nations", Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
- ↑ The Handbook of Mental Health Administration and Management - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
- ↑ "Lake County Board Appoints 4 new members"
- ↑ "Letter from Florence Kaslow and Chris Stout: Outgoing 2011 CIRP Co-Chairs", Psychology International, December 2011
- ↑ "2011 CIRP Co-Chairs", Psychology International, April 2011
- ↑ "Advisory Board". Biosysco.com. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ↑ Meyers, L. "International psychology's rock star" American Psychological Association, December 2007, Vol 38, No. 11
- ↑ "The Davos Companion Project"
- ↑ "Addressing the Causes of Terrorism: The Club de Madrid Series on Democracy and Terrorism, Vol. 1"
- ↑ "Chris Stout Bio on Safe Democracy website"
- ↑ "Avoiding Contractual Pitfalls", Monitor on Psychology, Volume 31, No. 2, February 2000
- ↑ "ATI Research - Achieving Excellence through Evidence Based Medicine"
- ↑ "NAP Homepage", National Academies of Practice (NAP)
- ↑ "People to People: Our Heritage"
- ↑ "The Journal of Disability Medicine"
- ↑ "Contemporary Psychology"
- ↑ "Getting Better at Private Practice, with Dr. Chris Stout", blogtalkradio
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Chris E. Stout Amazon Bio"
- ↑ "APA International Humanitarian Award", American Psychological Association
- ↑ "The Illinois Psychologist: Newsletter of the Illinois Psychological Association"
- ↑ "Outstanding International Psychologist |". Div52.org. 2013-02-28. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
- ↑ "RISE scholarships and Endowed Chairs"
- ↑ "The Psychological Impact of Globalization", American Psychological Association, April 9, 2009
- ↑ "Tanzania: THRIVE: Tanzanian Health & Resilience Initiative Valuing Education"
- ↑ "1000: Richard Saul Wurman's Who's Really Who (9780967943619): Richard Saul Wurman: Books". Amazon.com. 2002-02-20. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
- ↑ "Dr. Chris E. Stout, LinkedIn Influencer"
- ↑ The Archives "Global Activism: The Center for Global Initiatives" WBEZ, March 8, 2008
- ↑ "Profile: Chris Stout: Psychologist helps to right a world of wrong"
- ↑ Hageman, William, Tribune Staff Reporter "The life list: Forget New Years resolutions why not make a lifetime's worth of must-dos instead?", Chicago Tribune, January 04, 2004
- ↑ Stout, Chris E. "Emmortality: The Project of a Lifetime" CTHEORY
- ↑ "'Citizen of the world' Kildeer psychologist is dedicated to making a difference.", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 17, 2002
- ↑ "HOME". Summitsforothers.org. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ↑ "Dr. Chris Stout, Forest Graduate, Featured on Cover of APA's Monitor on Psychology"
- ↑ "Two to receive honorary degrees during IUPUI commencement", IUPUI Newsroom, May 12, 2013
- ↑ "Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy"