**Meet the editors**

Dr. Ghassan El-Baalbaki is a professor of psychology at the University of Quebec at Montreal and an adjunct professor at McGill University. Prior to this, he held a position as an international consultant in psychology for a humanitarian project, where he undertook clinical projects with victims of violence, harmed by landmines and war. He also trained healthcare providers in CBT for pa-

tients with PTSD and with serious injuries, including amputation, and in working with families to improve support for patients. With his team, he runs several research projects, financed by governmental and institutional grants with the Trauma Studies Center, the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network, and the Louise Granofsky Psychosocial Oncology Program. He is the author of several scientific publications.

Dr. Christophe Fortin is a professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa and an adjunct professor of psychology at UQAM. He currently holds several governmental and institutional research grants supporting his work on PTSD and has been, for the last 15 years, studying several aspects of the disorder. His current research interests focus on the efficacy of psychotherapy and the

healthcare costs associated with this disorder. He is actually codirecting, at the Trauma Studies Centre in Montreal, a randomized control trial on the efficacy of two length-flexible cognitive-behavioral therapies for PTSD. His expertise led him to give several trainings to first responders, and he is currently developing a psychological first aid program for firefighters with PTSD or with subclinical symptoms.
