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About the speaker

Originally from New York, Dr. 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.

He has been interested in OCD for many years and has lectured about it, including at meetings of the Maryland Psychiatric Society/Southern and the OCD Foundation.

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.

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, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, 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.