Authors
Ms Collins is a licensed professional counselor associate under the supervision of Dr John Spoede, LPC-S and a former collegiate athlete specializing in sports counseling. Her approach blends human-centered care with evidence-based therapeutic modalities, supporting athlete mental health and creating space for the human behind the uniform.
Dr Schultz is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine.
Ms Khan is the lead social worker for the child psychiatry hospital section and a clinical social worker on the Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service in the University of Michigan Hospital Systems.
Mr Siddiqui is a student at McMaster University.
Dr Wilson is a consultation liaison psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt, and a physician scientist at the Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center.
Ms Hawkins is a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine. She has an interest in both academic psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.
Dr Wilsa Charles Malveaux is a sports psychiatrist in Los Angeles, California, and CEO of WCM Sports Psych. She is an advocate and educator on the intersection of mental health, sports, and racial and social justice. Dr Charles Malveaux lends her expertise as a psychiatric consultant to multiple national sport-related agencies, professional sports teams, and organizations. She served for over 4 years as the Western Regional Trustee (region 4) on the Board of Black Psychiatrists of America. Dr Charles Malveaux now serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Sports and Performance Psychiatry (ABSPP), as well as on advisory boards for organizations serving the community.
Dr Hovis is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Mr McCabe is the communications officer for YSM Social Media and Audience Development.
Dr Oldak is a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
Dr El-Shammaa is a psychiatry-trained addiction medicine fellow at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
Dr Mullen is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Dr Kashani is a board-certified sleep medicine physician who practices in Santa Monica, Porter Ranch, and Santa Clarita. He is currently president of the California Sleep Society and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr Kalra-Arora is a psychiatrist in the Department of Behavioral Health at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Group.
Dr Jenkins is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Dr Nyer is a clinical psychologist at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Barbato is the chief medical officer of Incannex Healthcare.
Dr Thomas is an assistant professor in the Henry J.N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr Gitlin is the distinguished professor of clinical psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is currently the director of the Adult Division in the Department of Psychiatry, Medical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Behavioral Health Services and director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
Dr Yaden is the Griffiths Professor in Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He is a research associate at the University of Oxford and the cofounder of the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE). He studies brief experiences with the potential for long-term positive impact. His current research at the Yaden Lab focuses on psychedelic experiences, including their risks, benefits, and mechanisms.
Ms Tobias holds an MS in psychosocial kinesiology from Oregon State University, where she focused her research on access to sport for women and girls. She currently serves on the development team at Coach Across America, supporting the mission to provide every child with a dedicated coach-mentor.
Dr Spada is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an associate program director for the psychiatry residency program at UPMC. She is also codirector of the residency program’s Academic Administrator, Clinician Educator Track and codirector of the Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry Area of Concentration.
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.



