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About these speakers

Brenda Kijesky is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist specializing in the treatment of OCD and related anxiety disorders at The Center for OCD and Anxiety at Sheppard Pratt. In addition to providing outpatient treatment, Brenda treats residential patients at The Retreat and The LifeLaunch at Sheppard Pratt. She is also a trained RO DBT Practitioner. Before joining The Center for OCD and Anxiety, Brenda specialized in the treatment of OCD and related disorders at the OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore. Prior to becoming an OCD specialist, she worked with children in residential treatment for trauma, mood, and behavioral disorders. She has published online blogs and articles about panic and anxiety and has provided Panic Disorder treatment training to psychiatry residents at Sheppard Pratt. Brenda is a professional member of the International OCD Foundation and a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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 (or a partner or spouse) 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.

Brenda Kijesky, LCMFT , 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 discuss capnometry guided respiratory intervention as a therapeutic treatment.

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: Jon Hershfield, MFT, Todd Peters, MD, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc., Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Octavia Coit, MN, Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.