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About This Speaker

Donna Sudak is Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Education at the Drexel University College of Medicine. She is a clinician-educator with a wealth of experience and multiple awards for her teaching. She has made a number of significant contributions to the literature in CBT education and has played a major role in developing suggested curricula and guidelines for resident competency in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Dr. Sudak has multiple publications regarding combining treatment with medication and CBT. Her most recent book, Teaching and Supervising Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, written with a group of noted experts in CBT education, provides multiple resources for educators.

In addition to her responsibilities at Drexel University College of Medicine, Dr. Sudak is the General Psychiatry Residency Program Director at Tower Health-Brandywine Hospital Psychiatry. She is the Past President of both The Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, the former Editor of the PIPE examination, and serves on multiple national committees in the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Disclosure Statements

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Donna Sudak, MD, reports receiving book royalties from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Wolters Kluwer and John Wiley and Sons publishers for her authored works, during the past 12 months. She will not discuss any products or services in this presentation. This presentation was initially planned and recorded prior to January 1, 2023; therefore, the financial disclosure statement from the speaker reflects only the preceding 12 months, as was the standard at the time. This enduring activity was last reviewed for content validity on September 1, 2023. 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, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC , Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.