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About the speaker

Faith Dickerson is the Director of Psychology and the Head of the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore, Maryland.  She has adjunct faculty appointments in the departments of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland schools of medicine. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Her research and clinical interests are focused on improving the outcomes of persons with serious mental illness.  As the head of the Stanley Research Program, she directs studies on infectious and immunological factors in mental illness.  These studies have enrolled more than 2,000 persons from Sheppard Pratt and affiliated programs and have included eight completed clinical trials of novel treatments for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.  She also is an investigator on several NIH-funded research studies to reduce smoking and other cardiovascular risks in persons with serious mental illness. She was instrumental in initiating a formal clinical program for smoking cessation at Sheppard Pratt. Dr. Dickerson has authored or co-authored one textbook and more than 200 peer- reviewed scientific articles.

Disclosure Statements

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.

Faith Dickerson, PhD, MPH, 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 12 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses 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 Cecember 4, 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, 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 Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD,  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.