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About the speaker

Katharine A. Phillips, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Dewitt Wallace Senior Scholar, and Residency Research Director at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Attending Psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Phillips graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School. She did her psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Her pioneering research studies on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have identified and elucidated many aspects of this common and severe disorder, and she has developed and tested treatments, both medication and therapy, for BDD. Her scientific studies on BDD were continuously funded by the National Institute of Mental Health for more than 20 years. Dr. Phillips has more than 350 scientific publications (original scientific articles, reviews, letters, and book chapters). She has written or edited 11 books on BDD and other topics, and she has given more than 600 international, national, and local presentations.

Dr. Phillips is an elected Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She has received many honors and awards for her research, clinical work, and other academic contributions, including a Special Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association for her research studies on BDD.

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Katharine A. Phillips, MD, reports receiving Royalties from the following: Oxford University Press, International Creative Management, Inc., UpToDate/Wolter’s Kluwer, Guilford Publications, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Merck Manual, nView Health,  and Simple and Practical Medical Education. She will be discussing treatment manuals and off-label uses of medications. All conflicts have been mitigated through review. 

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