COMMITTEE

The Middle East Forum of Falmouth is a nonprofit organization overseen by a volunteer Committee.

Gary Jacobson, MD

MEFF President Emeritus

Senior Supervising Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Former co-Chair, Muslim-Jewish Dialogue group of the American Jewish Committee (New England)
Former Chair of the Fellowship Committee, Middle East Institute for Social and Economic Policy, John F. Kennedy School
of Government

Fletcher Street

Experimental Psychologist
Member, Board of Directors, Chatham Chorale; and Development Committee, Falmouth Chorale

Jane McHan, PhD

Social Political Psychologist
Lived, worked, taught (AUB, KSU College of Medicine), and travelled extensively in the Middle East for 30+ years
Conducted research in the Middle East, and author, “Social Psychological Aspects of War and Violent Conflict”

Allen Taylor, PhD

Director of the Laboratories for Nutrition and Vision Research, Tufts University
Co-founder and Director, Science Training Encouraging Peace – Graduate Training Program (STEP-GTP: pairing Israeli and Palestinian students conducting graduate-level research at Israeli universities)

Kathryn Plazak

MEFF Treasurer and Clerk

Oliver C. Zafiriou, PhD

Scientist Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Studies sunlight-initiated chemical reactions - photochemistry - in the upper ocean
After retirement, has organized local book discussion groups centered initially on Asian History.

Marc Shulman, PhD

MEFF President

Professor Emeritus, Immunology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Member, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA

Michael J. Zigmond, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
Originator of a training program on professional skills that has included presentations to a large number countries in the Middle East.