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About the speaker

Gregory S. Chasson, PhD, ABPP is a licensed clinical psychologist, board certified cognitive-behavioral therapist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. His clinical work focuses on obsessive-compulsive spectrum conditions (including hoarding disorder), autism spectrum conditions, and anxiety disorders. Dr. Chasson is an active clinician, researcher, and trainer with a track record of publishing scientific peer-reviewed research, serving on editorial boards of peer-reviewed scientific journals, and providing treatment workshops for OCD and hoarding around the world. He and his colleague recently published Advances in Psychotherapy: Hoarding Disorder (Hogrefe Publishing), a book to help train professionals on delivering cognitive-behavioral therapy for hoarding.  His research has been published in numerous journals, such as Journal of Psychiatric Research, Clinical Psychology Review, Health Psychology Review, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Behavior Research & Therapy, Depression & Anxiety, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, and Comprehensive Psychiatry.

Dr. Chasson received his BA in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which he earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Houston. He trained for three years at Harvard Medical School, first as part of a one-year, program-required internship at McLean Hospital and then for two years as a postdoctoral Clinical and Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Dr. Chasson was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Towson University in Maryland and then an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he also served for four years as the Director of Clinical Training of the accredited Clinical Psychology PhD program.

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Gregory S. Chasson, PhD, ABPP, reports receiving royalties from Hogrefe Publishing. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated. 

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