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About the speaker

Paramjit T. Joshi, M.D. is the Distinguished Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at the Children’s National Medical Center and Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences & Pediatrics, at the George Washington University School of Medicine since September 1999. After graduating from the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana India, she first trained and practiced as a pediatrician. After moving to the United States, she completed her training in general and child and adolescent psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she remained on the faculty for over two decades.

She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists (ACP). She has held several national offices at the AACAP, SPCAP and the ABPN – notably President of the Society of Professors of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2006-2008), President of AACAP (2013-2015) and currently Chair of the Board of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (2020-2021).

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Paramjit T. Joshi, M.D. , reports that she has 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 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, 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, Laura Webb, RN-BC, MSN, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Heather Billings, RN, Octavia Coit, MN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.