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Glenn Losack Author

Dr. Glenn Losack is a psychiatrist, physician, photographer, social activist, and musician who has traveled and worked extensively in the developing world for over forty years. Devoted to raising awareness of poverty and stymying the stigma of diseases like leprosy, Dr. Losack has worked with the Medical Benevolent Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, and Catholic Charities, and has given lectures on psychiatric care throughout India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Asian Geographic, and Popular and American Photography, and has been selected for Kodak's “Picture of the Day” five times. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Losack practices “tele-psychiatry,” utilizing videoconferencing to treat rural populations in underserved communities with very few psychiatrists, and today, he treats four hundred patients throughout Middle America. Dr. Losack has also worked with patients in prisons in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York for over twenty-five years, including those in solitary confinement, those serving life sentences, and those on death row. Dr. Losack travels regularly but lives in Manhattan. Dr. Robi Ludwig is a psychotherapist, author, and award-winning reporter. As a psychotherapist, Dr. Ludwig has treated a wide range of mental health issues, including substance abuse, grief, sexual identity issues, and job stress. She has appeared on Nightline, The View, and The Tamron Hall Show and been featured on CNN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, and Fox. Dr. Ludwig is the author of Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse and Your Best Age Now, and currently serves on the Medical Advisory Board of BELLA Magazine, where she writes for their Mind and Body column. She is also the executive producer and host of Talking Live on Facebook Live. In 2020, Dr. Ludwig received a “Best of Manhattan” award in the Mental Health Practitioner category. She resides in New York City.