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About The Speaker

Kiara Timpano is a Professor at the University of Miami, the director of the Adult Division in the Department of Psychology, and the director of the Program for Anxiety, Stress, and OCD (PASO). She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University in 2009 and completed her clinical internship and post-doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital OCD and Related Disorders Program. Her research interests are in understanding risk and vulnerability factors that play a role in the etiology, comorbidity, and maintenance of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, with a particular focus on hoarding disorder. Her work on hoarding helped establish the condition as a discrete syndrome within DSM-5, and reflects key contributions to our understanding of the etiology and treatment of this understudied and severe condition. Dr. Timpano is a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation, and a co-leader of the Hoarding Track. She has received multiple grants from the National Institute of Mental Health to further investigate hoarding disorder, and has published and presented widely in the areas of CBT for anxiety disorders, OCD and hoarding.

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Kiara Timpano, PhD, 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 not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review. 

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