Authors

Dr Thrasher is the past president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, the immediate past president of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association, and the medical director of Milwaukee County Crisis Services.

Roueen Rafeyan, MD, DFAPA, FASAM

Dr Rafeyan is chief medical officer of the Gateway Foundation; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois; and the Psychiatric Times substance use section editor.

Ms Cliffel is a writer and mindfulness teacher who uses storytelling, yoga, sitting, and sound as mechanisms to liberate the mind in service of living our best lives. She does all this, including work on her memoir about postpartum psychosis, while raising 3 wonderful humans in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr Coelho is a public health physician and university hospital assistant at the University Sleep Medicine Unit of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University Hospital of Bordeaux.

Dr Lavingia is a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of Pittsburgh. Her clinical and research interests include women’s mental health and consultation-liaison psychiatry.

Dr Colon-Rivera is the Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha Medical Director, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center attending physician, and President of the APA Hispanic Caucus.

Dr Bravender is the David S. Rosen Collegiate Professor of Adolescent Medicine and clinical professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He also serves as associate chair for faculty affairs in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine director, executive director of the Mott Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program, and comedical director of the University of Michigan Adolescent Health Initiative.

Jessica Walters

Ms Walters is the assistant editor of Psychiatric Times.

Dr Vadiei is a clinical associate professor of pharmacotherapy and translational sciences at the University of Texas at Austin and a psychiatric pharmacist at San Antonio State Hospital.

Dr Pierce is the medical director of the Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service and the child and adolescent psychiatry hospital education lead at the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Hospital Systems. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.