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About the speakers

Marisa T. Mazza, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist, supervisor, and founder of choicetherapy, a group practice specializing in evidence-based treatments for OCD and Anxiety. Dr. Mazza is passionate about helping people move beyond their fears and connect to their greater purpose. Dr. Mazza facilitates workshops and offers consultation to other therapists who would like to show up more authentically while helping their clients. She provides consultation to other professionals as faculty at the International OCD Foundation’s Behavioral Therapy Training Institute. Dr. Mazza authored, and New Harbinger published, The ACT Workbook for OCD: Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Exposure Skills to Live Well with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Dr. S. Evelyn Stewart is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a clinical and neuroscience researcher. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is the founding director of the BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) Provincial Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinic and Research Program as well as the Congdon Family Hospital Chair of the Child and Youth Mental Health Research at BC Children’s Hospital. She is also the Director of Brain, Behaviour & Development theme at BCCH Research Institute, the Research Director for BCCH Child, Youth and Reproductive Mental Health program and an investigator at BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services. She has authored over 150 original papers, reviews and chapters and sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation and Anxiety Canada. 

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.

Marisa T. Mazza, Psy.D, reports receiving royalties from New Harbinger. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review. 

S. Evelyn Stewart, MD, FRCPC, reports receiving research grants from CIHR, BC Children's Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital Foundation, and the University of British Columbia. 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: Jon Hershfield, MFT, Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, 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.