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About these speakers

Brenda Kijesky is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist specializing in the treatment of OCD and related anxiety disorders at The Center for OCD and Anxiety at Sheppard Pratt. In addition to providing outpatient treatment, Brenda treats residential patients at The Retreat and The LifeLaunch at Sheppard Pratt. She is also a trained RO DBT Practitioner. Before joining The Center for OCD and Anxiety, Brenda specialized in the treatment of OCD and related disorders at the OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore. Prior to becoming an OCD specialist, she worked with children in residential treatment for trauma, mood, and behavioral disorders. She has published online blogs and articles about panic and anxiety and has provided Panic Disorder treatment training to psychiatry residents at Sheppard Pratt. Brenda is a professional member of the International OCD Foundation and a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Anthony Pinto, Ph.D. is Program Director of the Northwell Health OCD Center at Zucker Hillside Hospital on Long Island in NY, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Pinto has an extensive publication record, with over 100 manuscripts/chapters on obsessive compulsive disorder and related conditions, particularly obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). He is a leading authority on OCPD and co-edited a comprehensive book on the subject (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2020). He is the lead author of the self-rated Family Accommodation Scale for OCD, which is being used worldwide. He serves on the International OCD Foundation Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board.

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Brenda Kijesky, LCMFT , 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 discuss capnometry guided respiratory intervention as a therapeutic treatment.

Anthony Pinto, PhD, reports that he 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. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

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, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc., Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Octavia Coit, MN, Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.