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About this speaker

Paul Nestadt, MD is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He serves as the co-director and supervising psychiatrist for the Johns Hopkins Anxiety Disorders Clinic, where he utilizes behavioral therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure as well as psychopharmacology for anxiety disorders including PTSD, OCD, Panic, and Generalized Anxiety in patients from the US and internationally. He is an attending psychiatrist on the Motivated Behaviors Unit, an inpatient psychiatric ward specializing in the treatment of substance use disorders in the context of major psychiatric illness. Dr. Nestadt’s current research focus on practical risk factors for suicide, such as firearm and opioid access. His research is fueled by a fruitful partnership with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland, which supplies data for the development of machine learning algorithms utilized in the prediction of suicide risk. He has applied this expertise to the study of suicide in special populations including Native Americans, African Americans, and the opioid using population. His research is sponsored in part by the James Wah Center or Mood Disorders Research, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health.

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Paul S. Nestadt, MD, 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 12 months. He will not discuss any products or services in this presentation.

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