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About these speakers

Dr. Robert Wisner-Carlson is the chief of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Outpatient Program; senior psychiatrist and service chief of the Adult Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Unit; clinician investigator for the Sheppard Pratt Autism Registry; and chairs the Sheppard Pratt Ethics Committee. Dr. Wisner-Carlson came to work at Sheppard Pratt in 1990 and created the first Crisis Stabilization Unit, which became a model for short-stay psychiatric care in the managed care era. Then, in 2007 he opened the first Adult Neuropsychiatry inpatient unit for the health system. He is double board-certified in general psychiatry and neuropsychiatry.

Tom Flis is a board certified and licensed behavior analyst and licensed clinical professional counselor who has more than 15 years of experience working with children and adults diagnosed with a developmental disability across multiple settings, including in-home, schools, inpatient, outpatient, and out in the community. He currently serves as the Clinical Director for the Center for Autism and also as the Behavioral Services Manager for inpatient units at Sheppard Pratt.

Crystal DeVito, PhD, is a senior psychologist at Sheppard Pratt in Towson, MD. She has more than 30 years of experience in clinical child & adolescent psychology and developmental psychopathology. Prior to joining Sheppard Pratt, Dr. DeVito served as a pediatric psychologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She has held appointments as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Instructor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty in Psychology at Loyola University, Maryland.

Jason Emejuru, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Sheppard Pratt’s Center for Autism in Towson, MD. Prior to joining Sheppard Pratt, Dr. Emejuru held roles as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and intensive outpatient program medical director at Ohana, Dr. Emejuru is board certified in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry and is qualified to conduct standardized assessments for autism spectrum disorder.

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.

Robert Wisner-Carlson, MD, Tom Flis, MS, BCBA, LBA, LCPC, Crystal DeVito, PhD, & Jason Emejuru, MD, all 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. All conflicts have been mitigated through review. 

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, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis J. Marino, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, April Sobiech, LCSW-C, Latia Suite, LCSW-C, Rachel Smolowitz, PhD, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, Lisa E. Seldon, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.