Authors
Dr Kruse is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.
Dr Khan is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and serves as a staff psychiatrist at VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Dr Gurvich is an associate professor at the HER Centre Australia, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University.
Dr Kaplan is a clinical associate professor in the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University, in Sydney, Australia.
Ms Asmar is a psychology PhD student at the University of Denver.
Ms Smith is a retired professional whose career included work in marketing and public service. She lives in Mississippi with her husband of 30 years and has been an active care partner throughout his journey living with bipolar 1 disorder. She is passionate about supporting families navigating mental health challenges and has been an active member of her local garden club for more than 35 years.
Dr Kruse is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.
Ms Fleming is the communications manager for the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Mr Choi is a fourth-year medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a clinical research coordinator at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Ms Backman is a senior science writer/editor at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr Rains is a psychiatry resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Dr Penberthy is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. She is also the associate director of the UVA Health Clinician Wellness Program and the codirector of the Effective Coping and Communication Skills for Clinicians Program.
Mr Drozek is the clinical director of the Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean Hospital. He also serves as a staff psychotherapist in the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean. He is a trainer and supervisor in MBT through the Anna Freud Centre in London, England, and a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Hathaway is a PGY-3 resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
Dr Washington is a quadruple board-certified psychiatrist specializing in adult psychiatry, child & adolescent psychiatry, obesity medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She serves on faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is the founder of The Healthy Weigh MD, a concierge practice integrating mental health and metabolic care, and Joy in the Margin, a platform focused on resilience, balance, and sustainable well-being. Drawing on her clinical, public health, and business training, her work centers on reducing stigma, advancing lifestyle psychiatry, expanding access to whole-person care, and helping clinicians and families thrive without burnout.
Dr Di Nicola is a child psychiatrist, family psychotherapist, and philosopher in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he is professor of psychiatry & addictology at the University of Montreal. He is also clinical professor of psychiatry & behavioral health at The George Washington University and past president of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP). Dr Di Nicola has received numerous national and international awards, honorary professorships, and fellowships. Of note, Dr Di Nicola was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS), given the Distinguished Service Award of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists (FACPsych) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). His work straddles psychiatry and psychotherapy on one side and philosophy and poetry on the other. Dr Di Nicola’s publications include: A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families and Therapy (WW Norton, 1997), Letters to a Young Therapist (Atropos Press, 2011), and Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Sciences, the Humanities, and Neuroscience (with D. Stoyanov; Springer Nature, 2021).
Dr Cho is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also the director of the UCLA Insomnia Clinic.
Dr Belean is an associate professor and program director of psychiatry atSSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Dr McGuire is an associate professor of pharmacy practice and psychiatry at Belmont University.
Ms Sa is a fourth-year medical student at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL.
Dr Cannon is a board-certified psychiatrist, physician-neuroscientist, and senior medical director in Neuroscience Clinical Development at AbbVie, where he designs and leads clinical trials evaluating novel treatments for serious mental illnesses.
Mr Iqbal is a senior student at the University of Kentucky, where he is majoring in neuroscience.