Meet the Team

I am incredibly thankful to the amazing team that has helped produce this podcast! I could not have done it without their ongoing support and feedback.

We enjoy meals together, coffee together and discuss how to improve mental health through this platform. Our hope is that we impact patients through improving mental health education.


Episode Faculty List:

Presenters with Conflicts of Interest as of 01/23/24:

Drew Ramsey, MD

  • Brain Food Media

  • Holder of Intellectual Property Rights

David Burns, MD

  • Receives royalties for the books he has written

Jonathan Meyer, MD

  • Acadia-Consultant

  • Alkermes-Consultant, Speakers Bureau

  • Intra-Cellular Therapies-Consultant, Speakers Bureau

  • Karuna, Neurocrine-Consultant

  • Otsuka, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals-Consultant, Speakers Bureau

Joseph Goldberg, MD

  • AbbVie-Speakers Bureau

  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals-Advisor or Review Panel Member

  • Otsuka-Consultant

  • Sunovion-Consultant, Speakers Bureau

  • BioXcel-Consultant

Margaret Chisolm, MD

  • Only conflict of interest is her book From Survive to Thrive

Mary Lynch Barbera, PhD, RN, BCBA-D

  • Conflicts includes a course and books for parents of autism

Brandon Kitay, MD, PhD

  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals-Advisor or Review Panel Member, Honorarium Recipient, Speakers Bureau

  • Assured Investment Management-Consultant

  • Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, PsychU-Honorarium Recipient

Kyle Williams, MD, PHD

  • Octapharma Pharmazeutika Produktionsges.m.b.H.: Research Support

  • PANDAS Network: Research Support

  • PANDAS Physicians Network: Research Support

  • International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation: Research Support

  • F-Prime Bioscience Research Initiative: Research Support

Sarah O'Dor, PhD

  • Octapharma Pharmazeutika Produktionsges.m.b.H.: Research Support

  • International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation: Research Support

Ragy Girgis, MD

  • IMS Expert Services, paid consultant

  • Noble Insights, research firm, paid consultant

  • Wipf and Stock Book, Royalties

  • Routledge/Taylor and Francis Book, Royalties

  • Expert Consulting Fowler White Burnett, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Ken Gillman, MD

  • Has equity interests in and is on the advisory board of NeuraWell Therapeutics, the company that has the patent for a modified form of tranylcypromine.

John M. Kane, MD

  • Consultant to or Receives Honoraria:

    • Alkermes, Allergan, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Cerevel, Dainippon Sumitomo, H. Lundbeck, HealthRhythms, HLS, Indivior, Intracellular Therapies, Janssen Pharmaceutical, Johnson & Johnson, LB Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Minerva, Neurocrine, Newron, Novartis, NW PharmaTech, Otsuka, Roche, Saladax, Sunovion, Teva

  • Advisory Boards:

    • Cerevel, Click Therapeutics, Lundbeck, Merck, Newron, Novartis, Otsuka, Sumitomo, Teva

  • Grant Support:

    • Lundbeck, Otsuka, Janssen, Sunovion

  • Shareholder:

    • Vanguard Research Group (private), LB Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (private), North Shore Therapeutics (private), MedinCell (public), Sage (public)

  • Receives royalties

Katharine A. Phillips, MD

  • Fabday LLC (presentation for providers of aesthetic treatment, honorarium)

  • CeraVe/Roxane S. Chabot DBA RBC Consultants (psychodermatology advisory board, honorarium)

Dr. Hayes, PhD

  • Royalties on books, trainings, and apps that are based on his scientific work from a variety of publishers.

  • He is part owner of PsychFlex.

Presenters without Conflicts of Interest as of 01/23/24:

David Puder, MD

Michael Cummings, MD

William Gordon Britt, PsyD

Randy Stinnett, PsyD

Adam Borecky, MD

Darcy Trenkle, MD

MaryEllen Eller, MD

Melissa Pereau, MD

Mona Mojtahedzadeh, MD

Ariana Martinez, MD

Trent Jones

Ginger Simonton, PhD

Jackson Brammer, MD

Kevin Ing, MD

Lindsay Puder

Timothy Lee, MD

Allison Johnson MSW

Kelly Rivinius, PsyD

Mark Ard, MD

Tony Angelo, PsyD

Nathan Hoyt, MD

Carolina Osorio, MD

Gillian Friedman, MD

Daniel Binus, MD

Victoria Agee, MD

Shaili Jain, MD

Maris Loeffler, MA

Sarah Bradley

Chloe Walker, MD, MHS

Steven Prince

Jaeger Ackerman, MD

Victoria Burghart, MD

Valerie Pooudomsak, MD

Walter Brown, MD

Amir Abuchaei, DO

Hans von Walter, MD

Nelson Horsley

Joel Weinberger, PhD

Valentina Stoycheva, PhD

Shawna Chan, MD

Salman Otoukesh, MD

Scott Miller, PhD

Daryl Chow, PhD

Timothy McNaughton, MD

Daved van Stralen, MD, FAAP

Lauren Geoffrion, MD

Steven Kasperek, MA

Danielle Hairston, MD

Matthew Hagele, MD

Annabel Kuhn, MD

Trace Huang, MD

Alec Zane, MD

Maddison Ulrich, MD

Matthew Reynolds, MA

Kyle Logan, MD

Alexis Carnduff, MD

Adriana Alvarez, MD

Ryan Holas, MD

Karl Wallenkampf, MD

Neal Christopher, DO

Nadav Klein, MD

Serena Mammen Weber, MD

Grace Kim, MD

Hassan Kanani, MD

Jason Smith, PsyD

Ted Cunliffe, PhD

Carl Gacono, PhD

Jeffrey Kahn, MD

Katherine Woo, MD

Chantel Fletcher

George Gianakakos, MD

Herndon Harding, MD

Mark McGuire, JD

Sam Shin, PhD

Jillian Peterson, PhD

James Densley, PhD

Shizuka Tomatsu, MD

Shilpa Krishnan, DO

Craig Heacock, MD

Fred Penzel, PhD

Waqar Zuberi, MD

Andrew Phipps, DPsyc (Clin)

Kristen Kim

Norman Ohler

Brock Eide, MD

Fernette Eide, MD

Mary Barbera, PhD, RN, BCBA-D

Maxwell Schauermann, MD

Robert Feinstein, MD

Francis Stevens, PhD

Stephen Seiler, PhD, FACSM

Jonathan Shedler, PhD

Herbert Harman, MD

Sonia Ann Marie F. Dela Cruz, MD

Sara Wierbowski, BS

Dorothy Kaufmann

Manal Piracha, MS

Dr. Khrisan Gosai

Mark Solms, PhD

Mary Jo Peebles, PhD

Jake McBride DO

Rocio Salas-Whalen, MD

Alyse Price-Tobler

Mandy Matthewson, PhD

Corrin Pelini, DO

Christopher Palmer, MD

Sarah Alam, MD

Manojna Kintada, DO

Derek Lanuto, MD

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP

Nicholas Reid, DPhil

Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Alexander Horwitz, MD

Jesse Allen, LMFT, MedFT

 Brian Distelberg, LMFT, PhD

Liam Browning

Kirk Schneider, PhD

Russell Norris

Rachel Lockard

Michael Garrett, MD

Cara Jacobson,

Kristin Lasseter, MD

Austin Coleman

Paul Molyneux, RN

Matthew Lederman, MD

Lauren Hanna, MD

Julia Tartaglia, MD

Joseph Flaxer, MD, MPH

Daniel Bender, DO

Sue Johnson, EdD

Jeremiah Stokes, EdD, LMHC

Christopher Browning, PhD

Robert Sapolsky, PhD

Jennifer Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED

Sally Vanderwiel, MA

Judith Beck, PhD

Adam Burt, MD

Joanie DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Patricia Resick, PhD, ABPP

Monica E. Calkins, PhD

Christian Kohler, MD

Dan Wolf, MD, PhD

Elisa Nelson, PhD

Bruce Perry, MD, PhD

Maddison Hussey, MD

Megan Zappitelli, MD

Howard Steele, PhD

Eric Bender, MD

Mark Mullen, MD

Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S

Emerald Norman

Paul Wachtel, PhD

Rachel Blackston

Stijn Vanheule, PhD

Content Direction Team:

Michael Cummings, M.D.

Darcy Trenkle, M.D.

Carolina Osorio, M.D.

Adam Borecky, M.D.

Dr. Joanie Burns

Reviewers of Content:

Brendon Brockmann, M.D.

Erica Vega, M.D.

Darcy Trenkle, M.D.

Carolina Osorio, M.D.