Dr. Andrea Gottlieb is a psychologist and the DBT Project Coordinator for the Sheppard Pratt Health System. She graduated from the University of Denver’s Clinical Child Psychology PhD Program with a focus on depression and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents. Her research has specifically focused on understanding what leads to an increase in depression during adolescence as well as factors that contribute to a teenager being at greater risk for engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury. Dr. Gottlieb completed her psychology internship and psychology postdoctoral training at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she primarily worked in McLean’s Behavioral Health Partial for Adults and was the co-director of the program’s psychology externship during the 2015-2016 academic year. While there, she also trained at McLean’s 3East DBT program for adolescents and OCD-Institute. Some other prior work experiences of Dr. Gottlieb’s include managing a large research study assessing deep brain stimulation for treatment resistant depression at Emory University as well as teaching undergraduate courses in psychology at The University of Denver and Skidmore College. Now working at the Sheppard Pratt Health System, Dr. Gottlieb oversees the integration of DBT by teaching DBT to staff, working directly with units to design and implement DBT programming, and she maintains a small private practice at Sheppard Pratt doing comprehensive DBT.

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Andrea Gottlieb, Ph.D. reports having no financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. She will not discuss medications, off-label uses or services used to treat patients in this presentation.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 12 months: Ellen Mongan, M.D., Caroline Cahn, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Faith Dickerson, Ph.D., Robert Roca, M.D., Drew Pate, M.D., Briana Riemer, M.D. Ernestine Crosby, APRN, Darby Subotich, RN, MSN, Rick Wallace, RN, MSN, Jacqueline Williams-Porter, RN, MBA, Jennifer Tornabene, and Bonnie Katz.