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About the speaker

Dr. Peggy Richter is the inaugural head and co-lead of the Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and heads the sole residential treatment program for severe OCD in Canada.  She is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto.  Dr. Richter is internationally known for her work in OCD, focusing on exploration of the genetic and biological basis of this illness, novel treatments and improving outcome.  She is the author of numerous publications and sits on the boards of multiple advocacy groups, including the International OCD Foundation. She was co-chair in development of Ontario Quality Standards for management of OCD and Anxiety Disorders. She is an internationally acclaimed speaker on anxiety, presenting extensively to both health care professionals and lay audiences.

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.

Peggy M.A. Richter, MD, FRCPC reports that she is a researcher and receives grants for Innovation Fund and Academic Health Sciences Centre of Ontario. She will discuss the off-label use of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapies in this presentation. This presentation and all the content materials were reviewed to mitigate any identified conflicts of interest.

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, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Laura Webb, RN-BC, MSN,  Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Octavia Coit, MN, Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.