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New York Academy of Medicine

Located on the Upper East Side, on Central Park

1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Thursday, October 13, 2022

The New York Academy of Medicine has been a vital source for effective and, often, radical thought and action in healthcare and public health since its founding in 1847.

The Great Hall at The Cooper Union

Located downtown, in the East Village

7 E 7th St, New York, NY 10003

Friday, October 14, 2022

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Sunday, October 16, 2022

The Great Hall at The Cooper Union is one of Manhattan’s most prestigious and long-lived auditoriums, and has hosted Horizons since 2015.

The Great Hall has been a center for public dialogue since its founding in 1858, having hosted such illustrious speakers as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and more recently, Barack Obama.

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Speakers

horizons

Doors open

5:55 PM

Introductory remarks

1:00 PM

Adjourn

10:30 AM

5:15 PM

Grand panel and Q&A

The day's speakers answers questions from the audience and offer final thoughts.

Mid-morning break

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

2:30 PM

11:30 AM

Creating policy change at federal level

How a crisis in mental health in the veterans community and the potential of psychedelic therapy may create an opportunity for unprecedented national policy change

Is psychedelic medicine finally within reach?

A reflection on the present moment in psychedelic science and policy, and a view of the path and challenges in the years to come.

Regional activism and regulated access to psychedelics

Examples of successful and ongoing efforts to develop regulated access to psychedelic experiences at the statewide level.

Closing remarks

9:00 AM

Veterans, psychedelic therapy and coalition-building

Stories from the remarkable confluence of veterans and psychedelic therapy, and finding partnerships in unexpected places.

Lunch

Psychedelic professions and professionals

A deeper consideration of who is suited to practice psychedelic care in professional contexts, and a new project to support the field.

12:15 PM

11:00 AM

6:00 PM

Psychedelics in Medicine

9:30 AM

Mid-afternoon break

3:30 PM

The gentrification of consciousness

An exploration of the disparities seen in the gentrification of the material world and their likely duplication in the "psychedelic renaissance" unless we rise to the occasion of a decolonized psychedelic movement.

Saturday, October 15th, 2022

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The Great Hall at Cooper Union

A public health perspective on psychedelics

While many psychedelic advocates speak of creating a revolution in mental healthcare, most of the dialogue merely focuses on individual medicine.

A public health lens reveals deeper unanswered questions about the roots of mental illness, and urgent questions about access

8:00 AM

Adjourn

4:00 PM

Mid-morning break

Territory, autonomy, culture and ancestral medicine in the Colombian Amazon

Riccardo Vitale, PhD
Miguel Evanjuanoy

Mazatec shamanism & the psychedelic renaissance

Nicholas Spiers

11:00 AM

Sunday, October 16th, 2022

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

The Great Hall at Cooper Union

5:55 PM

12:30 PM

Studying ayahuasca users and facilitators in neoshamanic settings

Saleena Subaiya, MD, MSc
Kate O'Malley, MA

Finding right relationship with indigenous communities

Sandor Iron Rope

Psychedelics in the World

Lunch

9:30 AM

Psychedelics, creativity and quantum theory

Paul D. Miller

Doors open

1:00 PM

3:15 PM

4:30 PM

Introductory remarks

Lorena Dame

Kevin Balktick

Decolonizing psychedelics and indigenous reciprocity

Bia Labate, PhD

Joseph Mays, MSc

6:00 PM

Grand panel and Q&A

The Fireside Project: Real-time support for when time doesn't seem real

Joshua White
Hanifa Nayo Washington