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About the speaker

Dr. Margarita Abi Zeid Daou is an adult and forensic psychiatrist. She graduated her psychiatry residency from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2017 and her fellowship in forensic psychiatry from UMass Chan Medical School in 2018. Since then, she has worked on the court-evaluation units at Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital, providing clinical care to individuals sent by the court for evaluation. Dr. Daou is also interested in education: she is the director of the forensic psychiatry course and rotations for the UMass residency. She is the associate director of the forensic psychiatry fellowship and has worked with trainees on various scholarly projects. She is involved with various professional organizations locally, nationally, and internationally; she serves on committees and presents annually at various conferences. Dr. Daou’s interest in public psychiatry continues to develop over the years and she is highly interested in shaping policy and laws around mental health in the Commonwealth to improve access to adequate care for those who need it the most.

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.

Margarita Abi Zeid Daou, MD, reports that she 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. 

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, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC , Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.