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Dr. Nancy Sondow has been ASPR President since 1993. She earned a BA in Mathematics from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an MA and Ph.D. in Psychology in the Experimental Cognition program from the City University of New York (CUNY). She has designed and conducted experiments investigating psychic phenomena at CUNY, at Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) in Princeton, NJ, and at the ASPR. She received the Mid S. Weiss Award for the most outstanding contribution to the literature to appear in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1979, for a Ganzfeld experiment conducted at the ASPR. She is interested in precognitive dreams, theoretical issues, and finding variables relevant to ESP functioning — such as expectation, mood, cognitive strategies, target characteristics, and interpersonal and psychodynamic factors — and is particularly interested in understanding the meaning that psi interactions have for those who experience them.

Patrice Keane, Executive Director of the ASPR, is interested in healing research and practices from a variety of scientific disciplines and perspectives. She was formerly a research associate at Maimonides Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Parapsychology and Psychophysics, where she conducted experiments investigating the physiological concomitants of altered states and ESP. She did research at New York University’s Research Center for Mental Health and at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, in NYC, with schizophrenic patients. She became interested in Dr. Bernard Grad’s healing research while conducting physiological research at NYU. In recent years she has been investigating healing practices among indigenous peoples in Australia, the Caribbean, Indonesia, South America, Africa, and India.