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About the speaker

Dr. Shashank Joshi is Professor and Director of Training in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of School Mental Health at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Academic Wellbeing at Stanford University.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and a member of the Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup for the State of California. He serves on the advisory boards of the Jed Foundation and the National Center on School Mental Health.

Dr. Joshi's publications focus on interprofessional collaboration, cultural aspects of pediatric health, wellbeing promotion in youth and young adults, and suicide prevention in school settings. He is the lead author of the K12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention used by the California Department of Education. His current book, Thinking About Prescribing: The Psychology of Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth & Families (American Psychiatric Press 2022), examines the relational and psychotherapeutic aspects of medication treatment.

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Shashank V. Joshi, MD, FAAP, DFAACAP, reports receiving royalties from APA Publishing during the last 24 months.  He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

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