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Dr Scherban works as an inpatient psychiatrist on the Westchester Behavioral Health “4N” Unit at NYP-Cornell, which specializes in caring for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
Ms Sears is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner in the psychosis disorders unit at Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Dr Gait is a PGY-1 psychiatry resident at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital in Smithtown, New York.
Dr Childress is president of the Center for Psychiatry and Behavior Medicine, Inc, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine and Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr Volle is an assistant professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the section chief of geriatric psychiatry at Dartmouth Health.
Ms Joslin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of Arkansas.
Dr Santos is a board-certified psychiatric pharmacist at UC Davis Health.
Mr Maristany is a fourth-year medical student at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL.
Dr Young is an adult psychiatrist in private practice and affiliate professor of psychiatry at FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Additionally, Dr Young is a medical reviewer and contributor at Everyday Health.
Dr Fickey is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and works as a forensic psychiatric consultant. She is also the founder of Embracing Life Wellness Center.
Dr Ajilore is the associate head for faculty development at the University of Illinois Center for Depression and Resilience. He is also a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Dr Fung is the clinical director of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He is also professor and director of Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
Ms Nousari is a fourth-year medical student at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL.
Dr Ross is a forensic and reproductive psychiatrist who provides evaluations and consultation for issues in the interface of psychiatry and the law.
Dr Parkerson is a psychiatry resident at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, NY.
Mr Parker is an architect and dedicated Mental and Behavioral Health Planner at Stantec.
Dr Mateka is the medical director of psychiatry for Inspira Health and serves as cochair of psychiatry. He is the president of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association (NJPA) and serves on the Inpatient/Partial Hospitalization/Residential Committee and Public Resources Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Mateka is also psychiatrist adviser for PerformCare, where he works closely with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families and Children’s System of Care.
Dr Swider is a psychiatrist in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr Adereti is a PGY-3 resident in psychiatry at the University of Louisville, KY.
Dr Ramakrishnan specializes in spiritual psychiatry and is currently completing his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Tower Health, Drexel University program. He holds a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard Divinity School, where he developed an inter-religious theological framework of healing, and pursued contemplative neuroscience research in the Harvard Psychiatry Department. To refine his theoretical "Mindfulness-to-Transcendence" framework, which underpins the neuroscientific basis of chaplains' Empathic Listening care, he joined the PhD program at UC Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. Dr Ramakrishnan is dedicated to establishing evidence-based Spiritual Psychiatry programs. He advocates for combining rigorous theological education with contemplative psychiatric approaches, believing this is essential for a contemporary social psychiatry that can address societal conflicts and fulfill the word's true meaning: "Healer of the Soul.
Dr Thordarson is a psychologist and manager of the Outpatient Acute Mental Health Service at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in California.
Dr Tastenhoye is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis.