Authors

Fawad Taj, MD

Dr Taj is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve Medical School. He is also a senior attending physician of psych-oncology at the Seidman Cancer Center in the Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, the Department of Psychiatry, at University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Dr Peltz is an assistant professor of psychology at SUNY Brockport. His research is in developmental psychopathology, with a specific emphasis on sleep.

Ksenia Kastanenka, PhD

Dr Kastanenka is an assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr Farnsworth is a practicing psychotherapist in Aotearoa, New Zealand’s southernmost city, Dunedin. He is 1 of 6 Life Members of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (APANZ). He is also an active social scientist and has taught for 30 years across a variety of university teaching positions. He has published internationally in a wide variety of fields, including social exclusion and poverty, the Enlightenment, digital mimicry, social and dynamic theory, methodology and the cultural unconscious.

Mr Makhija is a postgraduate researcher at the UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.

Dr Dickerson is a senior psychologist at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, MD, a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Erin Crown, MHS, PA-C, Psych-CAQ

Ms Crown is a psychiatric physician assistant in State College, PA. She is the owner and managing member of Oasis LifeCare, the owner of Future Options Research, and principal investigator in clinical trials.

Katharine Wojcik, PhD

Dr Wojcik is an assistant professor of psychology at Baylor College of Medicine, an associate training director for BCM Psychology Internship, and program director for the Support, Treatment, and Rehabilitation (S.T.A.R.) Program at Harris Health.

Dr Stahl is an internationally recognized clinician, researcher and teacher in psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as Honorary Fellow in psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge.

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.