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

Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSC is the Director of Medical Education at Sheppard Pratt and a consultation-liaison psychiatrist. She is also part-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins. She completed her medical training at Harvard Medical School, her residency training at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, and her postdoctoral training in medical education at Johns Hopkins. She also obtained a Masters degree in Comparative Social Policy from Oxford University. An experienced medical educator, she co-edited a textbook called Landmark Papers in Psychiatry with Oxford University Press and received local clinical teaching awards. She has multiple peer-reviewed publications on topics like childhood trauma, psychiatric diagnosis, decision-making capacity and mindful teaching, and her article on Functional Coma won best review article of 2021 from the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. She is using her platform as a psychiatrist to raise awareness about the neuropsychiatric harms of climate change and plastics pollution. She writes a monthly “Climate Column” for Maryland Psychiatric Society and is active on the Maryland Psychiatric Society’s Legislative Committee and Maryland Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate.

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.

Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSC, 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 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,Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Alfredo Sagisi, DNP, MS, RN, FACHE, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC, Lisa E. Seldon, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.