DeQuincy Lezine, PhD
Director, Lived Experience Academy
DeQuincy Lezine is an internationally recognized scholar with more than 25 years of experience in suicide prevention and a suicide attempt survivor. He earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in public health approaches to suicide prevention at the University of Rochester. While serving as the principal author of The Way Forward for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, he was the inaugural Chair of the Attempt Survivor and Lived Experience Division of AAS and served as a Co-Chair of the Consumer Survivor Committee for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Dr. Lezine is the founder and Director of the Lived Experience Academy, the world’s foremost resource for Post-Suicidal Growth.
Dr. Layla Soliman earned her medical degree in 2005, from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, OH. She went on to complete her general adult psychiatric residency and her forensic fellowship.at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Dr. Soliman remained on faculty at UPMC until 2017, when she moved to Charlotte. She now serves as an assistant professor of psychiatry for Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Throughout her career, Dr. Soliman has focused much of her attention on utilizing her forensic background to optimize patient care.
