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About the speakers

Dr. Afifa Adiba is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and is service chief of the adolescent mood disorders unit at Sheppard Pratt. She completed her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine. During fellowship, she was the Vice President of Connecticut State Medical Society Resident Fellow Section and co-chair of Diversity and Inclusion Council for Yale Resident Fellow Senate. She completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and served as a chief resident of the UMMC Adult Psychiatry Program. She was awarded Doctor of Distinction from Mississippi State Medical Association for outstanding leadership and clinical excellence. 

Dr. Adiba is a member of the American Medical Association (AMA), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and American Psychiatric Association (APA). She is currently serving on the AMA International Medical Graducates (IMG) Governing Council. Previously, Dr. Adiba was awarded the APA Resident Recognition Award, and received AACAP’s Stubblefied Award and served as AACAP representative to AMA Residents & Fellow Section. Dr. Adiba also served as the SAMSHA-AACAP fellow, focusing on increased accessibility of care in the post pandemic era. She is the current Chair of Early Career Psychiatrists at the Maryland Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, is the director of clinical psychology at Sheppard Pratt. She previously served as senior psychologist at The Menninger Clinic and assistant professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX where she worked in an inpatient unit for personality, complex trauma, mood, anxiety, and co-morbid addictive disorders. Beginning her career in the nonprofit sector, her professional experiences include addressing domestic violence and sexual abuse in India, as well as capacity building of human resources and developing fund raising strategies. 

Dr. Bhuyan received her doctoral degree in Clinical and School Psychology at James Madison University, Virginia. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships; the first, at the International Beliefs and Values Institute (IBAVI), whose mission is to explore how beliefs and values influence actions, policies, and practices. Her second fellowship was at the Baylor College of Medicine and The Menninger Clinic’s Compass Young Adult Program. She has also worked and trained in a variety of mental health institutions in India and the United States serving a range of diverse populations across the clinical and developmental spectrum. She continues to work in IBAVI initiatives and is currently working with an interdisciplinary team on an MMPI-like assessment tool called The Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI).

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Afifa Adiba MD & Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, report that they have no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. They will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses 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, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Octavia Coit, MN, Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.