The 3rd International Summit of Zero Suicide in Healthcare

David Jobes, PhD, ABPP, is a Professor of psychology and Associate Director of
Clinical Training at The Catholic University of America. His research and writing in
suicide has produced numerous peer reviewed publications (including five books on
clinical suicidology). He is the founder of CAMS-care (Collaborative Assessment and
Management of Suicidality).
As an internationally recognized suicidologist, Dr. Jobes is a past President of the
American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and is the recipient of that organization’s
1995 “Edwin Shneidman Award” in recognition of early career contribution to suicide research.
Dr. Jobes has been named the recipient of the 2012 AAS Dublin Award in recognition of career contribution. He
has served as a research consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has been a consultant
to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the FBI, the Department of Defense and VA.
Dr. Jobes is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and is a board certified clinical psychologist
(American Board of Professional Psychology). He maintains a private clinical and forensic practice at the
Washington Psychological Center. He was also one of the original members of the Action Alliance Clinical Care &
Interventions Task Force.
Dr. Ursula Whiteside is a licensed clinical psychologist, CEO of NowMattersNow.org
and Clinical Faculty at the University of Washington. As a researcher, she has been
awarded grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Dr. Whiteside is co-principal investigator on a study involving 18,000 high-risk suicidal
patients in 3 major health systems. This study includes a guided version
NowMattersNow.org, a program she developed which includes skills for managing
suicidal thoughts based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and paired with Lived
Experience stories.
Clinically she began her training with Dr. Marsha Linehan in 1999 and later served as a DBT-adherent research
therapist on a NIMH-funded clinical trial led by Dr. Linehan. She is a group and individual certified DBT clinician.
Now she treats high-risk suicidal clients in her small private practice in Seattle using DBT and caring contacts.
Dr. Whiteside is national faculty for the Zero Suicide initiative. Zero Suicide a practical approach to suicide
prevention care in health care and behavioral healthcare systems. This program was recently described by NPR,
“What Happens If You Try to Prevent Every Single Suicide?” Dr. Whiteside serves on the faculty of the National
Action Alliance Zero Suicide Academy, is a founding board member of United Suicide Survivors International and
a member of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Standards, Trainings and Practices Subcommittee.
As a person with lived experience, she strives to decrease the gap between "us and them" and to ensure that
the voices of those who have been there are included in all relevant conversations: nothing about us without us.
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