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About The Speaker

AJ Polek is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst (BCBA) with more than 8 years of experience working with children and adolescents diagnosed with Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders, as well as various other psychiatric diagnoses. He is currently the Senior Behavior Specialist for the Child and Adolescent Service Line at Sheppard Pratt.

AJ received his BA in Psychology from Salisbury University and his MS in Applied Behavior Analysis from National University. He joined Sheppard Pratt in 2016 as a mental health worker on the Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Unit before joining the Behavioral Services Department in 2017. He now oversees and supervises the Assistant Behavior Specialists for the Child Unit, Adolescent Male Crisis Stabilization Unit, Adolescent Female Crisis Stabilization Unit, and the Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Unit. AJ also works on developing data collection methods for the Behavioral Services Department, as well as helping to create unit policies and standard unit protocols regarding behavior for the Child and Adolescent Service Line.

Disclosure Statement

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.

Anthony J. Polek, MS, BCBA, LBA, 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. All conflicts 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: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis J. Marino, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, April Sobiech, LCSW-C, Latia Suite, LCSW-C, Rachel Smolowitz, PhD, Tom Flis, LCPC, Megan B. Anders, PhD, BCBA-D, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene