Meet the Team
I am incredibly thankful to the amazing team that has helped produce this podcast! I could not have done it without their ongoing support and feedback.
We enjoy meals together, coffee together and discuss how to improve mental health through this platform. Our hope is that we impact patients through improving mental health education.
Episode Faculty List:
Presenters with Conflicts of Interest as of 010/24/25:
Drew Ramsey, MD
- Brain Food Media 
- Holder of Intellectual Property Rights 
David Burns, MD
- Receives royalties for the books he has written 
Jonathan Meyer, MD
- Acadia-Consultant 
- Alkermes-Consultant, Speakers Bureau 
- Intra-Cellular Therapies-Consultant, Speakers Bureau 
- Karuna, Neurocrine-Consultant 
- Otsuka, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals-Consultant, Speakers Bureau 
Joseph Goldberg, MD
- AbbVie-Speakers Bureau 
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals-Advisor or Review Panel Member 
- Otsuka-Consultant 
- Sunovion-Consultant, Speakers Bureau 
- BioXcel-Consultant 
Margaret Chisolm, MD
- Only conflict of interest is her book From Survive to Thrive 
Mary Lynch Barbera, PhD, RN, BCBA-D
- Conflicts includes a course and books for parents of autism 
Brandon Kitay, MD, PhD
- Janssen Pharmaceuticals-Advisor or Review Panel Member, Honorarium Recipient, Speakers Bureau 
- Assured Investment Management-Consultant 
- Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, PsychU-Honorarium Recipient 
Kyle Williams, MD, PHD
- Octapharma Pharmazeutika Produktionsges.m.b.H.: Research Support 
- PANDAS Network: Research Support 
- PANDAS Physicians Network: Research Support 
- International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation: Research Support 
- F-Prime Bioscience Research Initiative: Research Support 
Sarah O'Dor, PhD
- Octapharma Pharmazeutika Produktionsges.m.b.H.: Research Support 
- International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation: Research Support 
Ragy Girgis, MD
- IMS Expert Services, paid consultant 
- Noble Insights, research firm, paid consultant 
- Wipf and Stock Book, Royalties 
- Routledge/Taylor and Francis Book, Royalties 
- Expert Consulting Fowler White Burnett, Fort Lauderdale, FL 
Ken Gillman, MD
- Has equity interests in and is on the advisory board of NeuraWell Therapeutics, the company that has the patent for a modified form of tranylcypromine. 
John M. Kane, MD
- Consultant to or Receives Honoraria: - Alkermes, Allergan, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Cerevel, Dainippon Sumitomo, H. Lundbeck, HealthRhythms, HLS, Indivior, Intracellular Therapies, Janssen Pharmaceutical, Johnson & Johnson, LB Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Minerva, Neurocrine, Newron, Novartis, NW PharmaTech, Otsuka, Roche, Saladax, Sunovion, Teva 
 
- Advisory Boards: - Cerevel, Click Therapeutics, Lundbeck, Merck, Newron, Novartis, Otsuka, Sumitomo, Teva 
 
- Grant Support: - Lundbeck, Otsuka, Janssen, Sunovion 
 
- Shareholder: - Vanguard Research Group (private), LB Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (private), North Shore Therapeutics (private), MedinCell (public), Sage (public) 
 
- Receives royalties 
Katharine A. Phillips, MD
- Fabday LLC (presentation for providers of aesthetic treatment, honorarium) 
- CeraVe/Roxane S. Chabot DBA RBC Consultants (psychodermatology advisory board, honorarium) 
Dr. Hayes, PhD
- Royalties on books, trainings, and apps that are based on his scientific work from a variety of publishers. 
- He is part owner of PsychFlex. 
Brendon Stubbs, PhD
- Dr. Stubbs is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, Ageing Research Reviews, Mental Health and Physical Activity, The Journal of Evidence Based Medicine, and The Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry. Brendon has received honorarium from a co-edited book on exercise and mental illness (Elsevier), an associated education course and unrelated advisory work from ASICS and FitXR LTD. 
Joshua Ryan Smith, MD
- MEND (Medical Exploration of Neurodevelopmental Disorder) Clinic Financial Support from the following industry-sponsored clinical trials in autism: Janssen, Roche, Axial, Vanda Pharmaceuticals, and Bristol Myers Squibb. 
- He also receives salary support from NICHD (1P50HD103537-01) and NIMH - (1R01MH135028-01A1). 
Presenters without Conflicts of Interest as of 10/24/25:
David Puder, MD
Adam Borecky, MD
Darcy Trenkle, MD
MaryEllen Eller, MD
Melissa Pereau, MD
Mona Mojtahedzadeh, MD
Ariana Martinez, MD
Trent Jones
Ginger Simonton, PhD
Jackson Brammer, MD
Kevin Ing, MD
Lindsay Puder
Timothy Lee, MD
Allison Johnson MSW
Kelly Rivinius, PsyD
Mark Ard, MD
Tony Angelo, PsyD
Nathan Hoyt, MD
Carolina Osorio, MD
Gillian Friedman, MD
Daniel Binus, MD
Victoria Agee, MD
Shaili Jain, MD
Maris Loeffler, MA
Sarah Bradley
Chloe Walker, MD, MHS
Steven Prince
Jaeger Ackerman, MD
Victoria Burghart, MD
Valerie Pooudomsak, MD
Walter Brown, MD
Amir Abuchaei, DO
Hans von Walter, MD
Nelson Horsley
Joel Weinberger, PhD
Valentina Stoycheva, PhD
Shawna Chan, MD
Salman Otoukesh, MD
Scott Miller, PhD
Daryl Chow, PhD
Timothy McNaughton, MD
Daved van Stralen, MD, FAAP
Lauren Geoffrion, MD
Steven Kasperek, MA
Danielle Hairston, MD
Matthew Hagele, MD
Annabel Kuhn, MD
Trace Huang, MD
Alec Zane, MD
Maddison Ulrich, MD
Matthew Reynolds, MA
Kyle Logan, MD
Alexis Carnduff, MD
Adriana Alvarez, MD
Ryan Holas, MD
Karl Wallenkampf, MD
Neal Christopher, DO
Nadav Klein, MD
Serena Mammen Weber, MD
Grace Kim, MD
Hassan Kanani, MD
Jason Smith, PsyD
Ted Cunliffe, PhD
Carl Gacono, PhD
Jeffrey Kahn, MD
Katherine Woo, MD
Chantel Fletcher
George Gianakakos, MD
Herndon Harding, MD
Mark McGuire, JD
Sam Shin, PhD
Jillian Peterson, PhD
James Densley, PhD
Shizuka Tomatsu, MD
Shilpa Krishnan, DO
Craig Heacock, MD
Fred Penzel, PhD
Waqar Zuberi, MD
Andrew Phipps, DPsyc (Clin)
Kristen Kim
Norman Ohler
Brock Eide, MD
Fernette Eide, MD
Mary Barbera, PhD, RN, BCBA-D
Maxwell Schauermann, MD
Robert Feinstein, MD
Francis Stevens, PhD
Stephen Seiler, PhD, FACSM
Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Herbert Harman, MD
Sonia Ann Marie F. Dela Cruz, MD
Sara Wierbowski, BS
Dorothy Kaufmann
Manal Piracha, MS
Dr. Khrisan Gosai
Mark Solms, PhD
Mary Jo Peebles, PhD
Jake McBride DO
Rocio Salas-Whalen, MD
Alyse Price-Tobler
Mandy Matthewson, PhD
Corrin Pelini, DO
Christopher Palmer, MD
Sarah Alam, MD
Manojna Kintada, DO
Derek Lanuto, MD
Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP
Nicholas Reid, DPhil
Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Alexander Horwitz, MD
Jesse Allen, LMFT, MedFT
Brian Distelberg, LMFT, PhD
Liam Browning
Kirk Schneider, PhD
Russell Norris
Rachel Lockard
Michael Garrett, MD
Cara Jacobson,
Kristin Lasseter, MD
Austin Coleman
Paul Molyneux, RN
Matthew Lederman, MD
Lauren Hanna, MD
Julia Tartaglia, MD
Joseph Flaxer, MD, MPH
Daniel Bender, DO
Sue Johnson, EdD
Jeremiah Stokes, EdD, LMHC
Christopher Browning, PhD
Robert Sapolsky, PhD
Jennifer Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED
Sally Vanderwiel, MA
Judith Beck, PhD
Adam Burt, MD
Joanie DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Patricia Resick, PhD, ABPP
Monica E. Calkins, PhD
Christian Kohler, MD
Dan Wolf, MD, PhD
Elisa Nelson, PhD
Bruce Perry, MD, PhD
Maddison Hussey, MD
Megan Zappitelli, MD
Howard Steele, PhD
Eric Bender, MD
Mark Mullen, MD
Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S
Emerald Norman
Paul Wachtel, PhD
Rachel Blackston
Stijn Vanheule, PhD
Brendon Stubbs, PhD
Nicholas Fabiano, MD
Mark Ruffalo
Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD
Awais Aftab, MD
Matt Bernstein, MD
Brandon Luu, MD
Joshua Mangunsong
Otto Kernberg, MD
Daniel Cuevas
Christopher Campbell
David Mintz, MD
Alissa Jerud, PhD
Danielle Liu
Kevin Foss
Khaled Itani, MD
Sreeya Cherlo, MD
Faddel Chouman, MD
Diana Diamond, PhD
Content Direction Team:
Darcy Trenkle, M.D.
Carolina Osorio, M.D.
Adam Borecky, M.D.
Dr. Joanie Burns
Reviewers of Content:
Brendon Brockmann, M.D.
Erica Vega, M.D.
Darcy Trenkle, M.D.
Carolina Osorio, M.D.
