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About the speaker

Dr. Rasmussen received his MD from Brown Medical School and completed his psychiatry residency at Yale University. Since 1983 he has devoted his efforts to the research and treatment of OCD and is acclaimed internationally for his work in the field. He was instrumental in designing and completing trials of the SRI’s for OCD in the 1990’s.
Dr. Rasmussen has been recognized by The Best Doctors in America annually for over 20 years. He has authored and co-authored over 170 publications and has lectured at conferences and symposiums across the world regarding this illness. More recently, his research has been focused on long-term outcome studies of OCD, epidemiologic studies, integrated approaches to treatment and circuit based neuromodulatory treatments. Currently, he is the Zucker Chair and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University. He was the 2014 recipient of the International OCD Foundation lifetime achievement award.

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Steven A. Rasmussen, MD, reported in January of 2021, 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, as was the standard at that time. He does not discuss any products or services consumed by, or used on patients in this presentation. All conflicts of interest were 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, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Jon Hershfield, MFT, 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.