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About the speakers

Dr. Charles Mansueto is founder and director of the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, a leading center for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. He has over 40 years of experience in the application of cognitive behavior therapy to a broad range of clinical problems.  Dr. Mansueto has written extensively and has presented nationally and internationally on OCD and related disorders.  He currently serves on the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation and is on the faculty of the IOCDF Behavior Therapy Training Institute. He is a member of the Executive Board of OCD Mid-Atlantic—an IOCDF affiliate and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, where he also heads the TLC Professional Training Institute.

Dr. Gryczkowski is a clinical psychologist and anxiety specialist with over 15 years of experience providing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)/ERP for anxiety, OCD, and related conditions. She previously taught CBT as an adjunct professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at George Mason University for several years, which included clinical supervision, and also served as Assistant Director of Clinical Training. She has taught and supervised CBT in a variety of other settings and also provides ERP case consultation. Dr. Gryczkowski earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at The University of Southern Mississippi. Specialty training in anxiety/OCD began in her pre-doctoral internship at Indiana University School of Medicine, followed by her 2-year post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic. She works with all ages and has worked in a variety of settings, including inpatient, residential, intensive outpatient, academic medical centers, and private practice. After spending many years working as an anxiety and OCD specialist at group practices, including Alvord, Baker & Associates most recently, Dr. Gryczkowski opened her own practice in 2022 – New Hope Anxiety & OCD Center. She also has a secondary specialty in behavioral parent training.

Peter W. Tuerk, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Virginia, where he serves as Director of the Sheila Johnson Center for Clinical Services, a multidisciplinary outpatient behavioral health clinic. Dr. Tuerk specializes in evidence-based treatments for anxiety-spectrum disorders, related research and training, and the integration of technology into clinical care.  He conducts research and clinical trials focused on the augmentation of evidence-based treatments, serving as Principal Investigator on NIH, VA, and DoD research awards, integrating artificial intelligence, virtual reality, mobile health, crowd sourcing, and applied psychophysiology into clinical care settings. As a scientist-practitioner, Dr. Tuerk is active in direct clinical care and has authored 120 peer-reviewed publications, chapters, and commissioned government reports. He has served in lead roles for national and international clinical training and dissemination initiatives in the US, Australia, and Japan and for regional initiatives in 25 US states and territories.  He has been recognized with a number of awards, including VA’s highest career honor, the Olin E. Teague Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in the Rehabilitation of War-Injured Veterans, and Australia’s highest research distinction in 2025 for his collaboration on a national validation of a novel exposure therapy protocol.

Originally from New York, Dr. Bruce Hershfield did his psychiatric training at the University of North Carolina. He then moved to Maryland to work at Sheppard Pratt. After 6 years there he became Medical Director of the state’s Highland Psychiatric Unit, then Superintendent of Springfield Hospital Center. He began a part-time private practice in 1974 and expanded it to full-time in 1993.  He continues to see patients at his office, in the barn on the family farm in Sparks. He has also been on the part-time faculty at Johns Hopkins since 1981. He has been active in psychiatric organizations for many years, having served as president of the Maryland Psychiatric Society and the Southern Psychiatric Association and the Speaker of the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association. He is currently the Editor of The Maryland Psychiatrist and Southlands, which is the newsletter of the Southern.

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.

Charles S. Mansueto, PhD, reports receiving royalties from New Harbinger and Cambridge University Press during the past 24 months. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.

Michelle Gryczkowski, 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 relationships have been mitigated through review.

Peter W. Tuerk, PhD, reports that he is the owner and researcher of VirtuallyBetter Health, LLC, a consultant for Medical University of South Carolina, and receives royalties from Springer International Publishing during the past 24 months.  He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.

Bruce Hershfield, MD, reports that he is a consultant for Medical Consultants Network during the past 24 months. He will be discussing medications including on and off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships 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: Jon Hershfield, LCMFT, Todd Peters, MD, Michael C. Hann, MD, MBA, Ronald Means, MD, Rajeev Krishna, MD, PhD, MBA, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Manan Shah, MD, Vittoria DeLucia, MD, Chad J. Lennon, MD, Crystal DeVito, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, MPH, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, MS, BCBA, LBA, LCPC, Paula Bostwick, MSN, RN, CENP, Alfredo Sagisi, DNP, MS, RN, FACHE, Maggie O'Neill MSN, RN, PMH-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.