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Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and has a diverse background in various domains. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives a top rated healthcare nonprofit and Platinum Ranked by GuideStar. Through the Center, he was able to gain approval from the Tanzanian Ministry of Education to establish a kindergarten for an orphanage amongst other projects and collaborations.

Chris held an appointment as a Clinical Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and served as an Advisory Board Member in starting their Center for Global Health. He was a Fellow in the School of Public Health Leadership Institute and a Core Faculty at their International Center on Responses to Catastrophes as well. He also held an academic appointment at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ Mental Health Services and Policy Program, and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University. He is the first psychologist to have an invited appointment to the Lake County Board of Health, where he served for a decade.

He was Vice President and Founding Director of the Department of Clinical Research and Data Analytics, for ATI Holdings, LLC, the nation’s largest sports medicine and orthopedic rehabilitation organization, holding a $2.5B valuation, overseeing all clinical outcomes of patients with musculoskeletal injuries, and managed the clinical data resulting from over 24,000 patient visits a day. From these large datasets, he developed and served as Principal Investigator for two national registries in the NIH National Library of Medicine’s ClinicalTrials.gov (Evidence-based Guide Investigating Clinical Services, NCT02285868 and Evidence-based Guide Investigating Medical and Preventative Services NCT04050319) which were listed in AHRQ’s Registry of Patient Registries. He also has experience as being the PI on National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants, NIMH/SAMHSA grants, and with the FDA in the area of prescription digital therapeutics (PDTx), 510(k) predicated devices, and software as a medical device (SaaMD). He is a co-inventor of a patent application for an Integrated Healthcare Monitoring System.

Chris is a Fellow in three Divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA), past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association (IPA), and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He was appointed Federal Advocacy Coordinator for the APA and served for over a decade, going to Washington, DC advocating for healthcare reform and served as a Presidential Cabinet Advisor to the Department of Education on Special Education and Mental Health (for the George H. W. Bush administration). He also chaired the Legislative Affairs Committee for the IPA, formally provided testimony on healthcare needs to a government panel, and was as an editorial cartoonist on healthcare advocacy and policy. In recognition of his service, the IPA named him Distinguished Psychologist of the Year (1999) and he received Federal Advocacy awards from the Association for the Advancement of Psychology (1997), APA (1998), the APA’s Heiser Award (1999), and the Illinois Senate and House similarly recognized his work by proclamation of “Dr. Chris E. Stout Week” (1999). Chris was elected to APA’s Committee on International Relations in Psychology for a three-year term, during which he served as Co-Chair with Florence Kaslow, PhD. The focus of the Committee was on thinking strategically and collaboratively to promote psychology globally. He also was a coauthor of APA’s Going International: A Practical Guide for Psychologists - Academics Going Abroad and Going International: A Practical Guide for Psychologists Book 2: Engaging in International Collaborative Research.

Chris worked as a Non-Governmental Organization Special Representative to the United Nations through the APA and had the honor of formally speaking there, authoring a position paper on The Copenhagen Declaration, and subsequently co-edited (with Harvey Langholtz, PhD) The Psychology of Diplomacy, and subsequent to his book The Integration of Psychological Principles in Policy Development. He was appointed by the Secretary of the US Department of Commerce to the Board of Examiners for the Baldrige National Quality Award, was a trained APA-Accreditation site reviewer, and was invited to serve on the APA Task Force on Envisioning, Identifying, and Accessing New Professional Roles.

Chris produced the critically acclaimed four volume set The Psychology of Terrorism (with Klaus Schwab contributing the Foreword), the three volume collection The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts (with Mari Fitzduff), and the award–winning three volume set, The New Humanitarians. He served as the Series Editor of Contemporary Psychology (Praeger) and Getting Started (Wiley) and has published a number of peer-reviewed articles as well as 38 books on various topics in psychology, including the popular Evidence-Based Practice (Wiley, with R. Hayes). Various chapters and books of his have appeared in a total of 8 languages. As a world-wide speaker, organizational consultant and startup whisperer, Chris has worked or traveled in all 50 states, over 100 countries, 6 continents, and visited over 140 World Heritage Sites. He was noted as being “one of the most frequently cited psychologists in the scientific literature” in a study by Hartwick College. He most recently published the edited volume, Why Global Health Matters, with Nobel Laureate, Jody Williams, authoring the Foreword, and was the #1 New Release in Psychology and Medicine when it debuted, adding to Chris’ Best-Selling author credentials. His academic productivity scores are h-Index=42, i10 Index=113, and 7949 citations based on Google Scholar findings. He is listed in TED Conferences Founder Richard Saul Wurman’s “Who’s Really Who, 1000: The Most Creative Individuals in America.”

He is the Executive Producer and Host of a popular syndicated podcast, Living a Life in Full, featuring guests working in the humanitarian space and spills over into his LinkedIn Top Voices posts on global health, technology, and humanitarian activism, nearing a half-million followers. A 2022 piece he wrote for LinkedIn News, was a Pulitzer Nominee for Editorial Writing. He is Editor-in-Chief of the sister LinkedIn publication, Tools for Change with over 150,000 subscribers. He also serves as a Contributing Editor for Atlas Obscura. His podcast is ranked in the Top 5% of All Podcasts by ListenNotes. He is also an Executive Producer for the documentary film, Somewhere Else Together.

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 was appointed as Illinois’ first Chief of Psychological Services for the Department of Human Services/Division of Mental Health–making him the highest-ranking psychologist in the State of Illinois and a committed reformer of psychology within the governmental setting. He also served as Chief Clinical Information Officer for the State’s Division of Mental Health in 2004–a Cabinet-level position. Chris has also served in CEO, COO and CCO positions in various behavioral healthcare startups. The breadth of his work ranges from having served as a judge for Dean Kamen’s FIRST Robotics competitions, to serving on the Young Leaders Forum of the Chicago Community Trust.

Chris holds the distinction of being one of only 100 world-wide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow—joining the ranks of Tony Blair, Jody Foster, Bill Gates, and J. K. Rowling, and he was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos. He was invited by the Club de Madrid and Safe-Democracy to serve on the Madrid-11 Countering Terrorism Task Force.

His humanitarian activities include going on international missions with the Flying Doctors of America to Vietnam, Bolivia, Rwanda, Peru, Ecuador, and the Amazon; War Child in Russia; the Kovler Center (for Refugee Survivors of Torture); Amnesty International; the RWJ Foundation; the Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust; and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. 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 was appointed as a Special (Citizen) Ambassador and Delegation Leader to South Africa and Eastern Europe by the Eisenhower Foundation. He is the inventor of the “52 Ways to Change the World” card deck. In his philanthropic work, Chris established a scholarship at Purdue’s School of Engineering and Technology for students conducting research, service or participating in international projects. He has won awards for public service announcements, as well as for his photography—one was displayed in the Smithsonian. Chris was inducted into his high school’s and his university’s Halls of Fame. In 2022, he was named One of the Top 100 Doctors by the Global Summits Institute.

Chris was educated at Purdue University at Indianapolis, attended The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and Forest Institute, 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 has received four additional doctorates (honoris causa) in Philosophy, Humane Letters, Humanities, and from Purdue School of Engineering, a Doctor of Technology degree, in addition to over 30 other post-doctoral awards.

He has been interviewed on many radio, cable, local, and national television programs (e.g., CNBC, CNN, WGN, NBC, PBS, NPR, Medical Rounds, Chicago Tonight, CL-TV, Oprah, Eye On Harvard, Christina, Bertise Berry, et al), and by numerous publications (Time, Chicago Tribune, 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” 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 being named one of ten Volunteer’s of the Year by Pioneer Press in 1999, for his global efforts.

His entrepreneurial experience is demonstrated in multiple start-ups that include the areas of finance, media, healthcare, engineering, technology, and consulting (with a top-tier client list that includes Oracle). He is now an angel advisor, early money-in investor, and serves on a number of for- and not-for-profit boards. Chris has held licenses or certifications as a Clinical Psychologist (Wisconsin and Illinois), in Wilderness Medicine, US Cycling Federation, Division IV Racing License, Certified in CPR, Disaster Mental Health Certified, Motorcycle Road Racing License, Certified SCUBA Diver, Boaters License, SEC 203(c) Registered Investment Advisor, APA Site Reviewer, Baldrige Award Examiner, American Institute of Architects member, Porsche Club Concurs Judge, and was even a Licensed Bar Tender. Chris serves as a decorated Division Staff Officer in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary (District 9WR, Flotilla 47 – 2) with qualifications in the areas of FEMA Incident Command, National Incident Management, Homeland Security, Marine Safety, and Environmental Protection which is augmented with his efforts as a Water Action Citizen Scientist working with the DNR at The Ridges.

His current interests are in humanitarian intervention and the multidisciplinary integration of psychology, public health and global health, along with evidence-based practice and outcomes, complex systems and ways in which technology can augment and assist. A special honor is having his body of work become part of the Smithsonian’s collection in the “Dr. Chris E. Stout Archive” housed at The Center for the History of Psychology, University of Akron.

He’s an avid endurance- and adventure-athlete as an ultra-marathon runner, certified diver (Blue Hole, Great Barrier Reef, night, narco- and shark-dives), and a devoted (albeit amateur) alpinist, having thus far summited three of the world’s Seven Summits as well as Mt. Whitney (tallest in 49 states), Mt. Rainier, Yosemite’s Half-Dome, Pikes Peak (with his daughter), Adam’s Peak (Sri Lanka), and founded Summits For Others. He also shows concours-winning vintage BMW motorcycles and Porsches as well as custom built Ducati café racers, but his greatest joy comes from being with his best friend and wife, Dr. Karen Beckstrand and their two adult children, Grayson and Annika.