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About the speaker

Dr. Jeffrey Hunt is Professor and Deputy Division Director in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Program Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and the Triple Board Program at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also Director of Inpatient and Intensive Services at Bradley Hospital in Rhode Island. Dr. Hunt has been co-investigator on numerous NIMH funded studies relating to mood disorders including the Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth Study. He holds leadership roles within AACAP, ABPN, and ACGME. He is an AACAP- Harvard Macy Scholar and is a faculty member in the Harvard Macy health care educator courses. Dr. Hunt received his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin and general and child and adolescent psychiatry training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (now Drexel University College of Medicine).

Disclosure Statements

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Jeffrey I. Hunt, MD, reports having received research funding form NIMH, publishing royalties from Whiley Publishing, during the past 12 months. He will discuss generic SSRIs and atypical medications used for treating irritability in youth in this presentation. Review of his materials found no conflicts of interest. This presentation was initially planned and recorded prior to January 1, 2023; therefore, the financial disclosure statement from the speaker reflects only the preceding 12 months, as was the standard at the time. This enduring activity was last reviewed for content validity on November 13, 2023.

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, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC , Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.