杰米·阿托恩
Dr. 杰米·D. 阿托恩 is a disaster psychologist, author, and speaker. His work draws from his experiences as a Hurricane Katrina and cancer survivor. He is founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College. HDI is the first faith-based academic research center in the country. Dr. 阿托恩 also holds the Blanchard Chair of Humanitarian & Disaster 领导 and helps train humanitarian, disaster, and ministry graduate students.
Dr. 阿托恩’s interest in disasters is not something he sought out. Six days after he and his family moved to South Mississippi in 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck and he witnessed first-hand the important role that faith and churches play in times of disaster. Within weeks he was studying faith and disaster resilience and supporting church recovery efforts. 从那时起，约翰博士. 阿托恩研究过, trained and/or mobilized church leaders through disasters in 11 different countries, 包括:
- 2005年的卡特里娜飓风, 2005年的丽塔, 2008年的古斯塔夫, 2017年的艾尔玛, 哈维在2017年, 和玛丽亚在2017年.
- H1N1 pandemic in 2009 and Ebola crisis in 2014;
- Mississippi Delta floods in 2010, Northern Illinois flood in 2011, South Carolina floods in 2015 and 2016, 2016年路易斯安那州洪水;
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama tornadoes in 2011;
- Civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Rwanda;
- Kenyan and Syrian refugee crisis;
- Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010;
- Upper Big Branch mining explosion in 2010;
- Japan tsunami, earthquake and nuclear plant meltdown in 2011;
- New Zealand Christchurch earthquake in 2011;
- Philippines’s Typhoon Haiyan in 2013;
- Haiti earthquake in 2010 and rescued trafficked children;
- Republic of Botswana drought in Southern Africa; and
- Mass shootings at Umpqua Community College in 2015, Orlando nightclub in 2016, and Dallas 2016.
Dr. 阿托恩 is also a late-stage cancer survivor in remission. Diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer at the age of 35, he underwent a yearlong battle that included surgeries and multiple treatments. 在很多方面, he saw what he had spent years studying in disaster zones play out in his own life spiritually and emotionally.
“This was by far the scariest and most difficult time of my life,” said Dr. 阿托恩. “This personal tragedy taught me more about suffering and adversity than I liked. 然而, this painful experience taught me spiritual and psychological lessons I don’t think I would have ever been able to learn from just my research.”
到目前为止，. 阿托恩 has written over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 书的章节, 资源, reports and other publications. 整体, his work on faith and disaster resilience has been supported by over $6 million in research grants. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, 《365bet中文》, TIME, 今日基督教, 哥伦比亚广播公司, 福克斯新闻, Moody Radio and some of the top scholarly journals in the field of psychology.
Dr. 阿托恩 is also the co-author of the Disaster Ministry Handbook (InterVarsity Press) and co-editor of six scholarly books. He has two forthcoming books: A Walking Disaster: What Katrina and Cancer Taught Me 关于 Faith and Resilience, (邓普顿出版社, January 2019) chronicling his cancer disaster experience, and Refugee Mental 健康 (APA Books).
Dr. 阿托恩 received the Community Preparedness Champion Award from FEMA at the White House for his work with faith communities and faith-based organizations.
He received the Margaret Gorman Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 36) for his research on the psychology of religion/spirituality and disasters.
