This lecture was supported by Grant Number 6H79FG000999-01M001 from SAMHSA. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of SAMHSA. 

About the speaker

Faith Dickerson, PhD, MPH is a Senior Psychologist at Sheppard Pratt and an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  She is a clinical psychologist with public health research training.  She started her career as a clinician at Sheppard Pratt where she was the co-founder of the inpatient unit for persons with psychosis. She later initiated and currently leads the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt which has enrolled more than 2,200 people with serious mental illness and persons without a mental health condition over the past 25 years in studies of immune and infectious disease markers, cognitive functioning, tobacco smoking, and suicidality.  She has led more than 12 clinical trials including a current study of add-on probiotics for persons with bipolar depression. She has recently completed a study funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention about persons with depression hospitalized after a suicide attempt. She also has led or co-led NIH-funded studies about psychological interventions for persons with serious mental illness including smoking cessation and early episode psychosis.

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.

Faith Dickerson, PhD, MPH, reports that she 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. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships 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 Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD,  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.