Master Clinician sessions are included in your registration fee. Arrive in time on Thursday, April 4, to take advantage of all the conference has to offer.

Sessions begin at 11:00 am; see the Master Clinicians schedule.

Strategies for Creating Clinical Dynamite: Working With Kids and Their Parents Who Are Anxious and Depressed (MC010)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Karen L. Cassiday, PhD, ACT

Clinical Director and Owner, Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center, Deerfield, Illinois

Clinical Assistant Professor, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Sciences

Curbing Anxieties: Hypnotherapeutic Approaches That Really Work (MC001)

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Carolyn Daitch, PhD
Director, Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Farmington Hills, Michigan

Treating PTSD in Suicidal and Self-Injuring Clients With Borderline Personality Disorder (MC002)

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Melanie Harned, PhD
Department of Psychology
University of Washington

Cognitive Processing Therapy: Use in Community and Low-Resource Settings (MC011)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Debra Kaysen, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington

Anxiety Disorders After Age 60: New Treatment Strategies for Older Adults  (MC003)

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Eric J. Lenze, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine; and Julie Loebach Wetherell, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

When It All Goes Bad: Cases That Crash (MC005)

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Philip R. Muskin, MD
Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University Medical Center, New York

Chief of Service: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Treatment of Panic Disorder in Adolescents (MC006)

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD
University Distinguished Professor, Clinical Psychology
Director, Child Study Center
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Integrating CBT Strategies Into Ongoing Clinical Practice (MC007)

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Michael Otto, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Director of the Translational Research Program, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders 
Boston University

Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (MC012)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Teri Pearlstein, MD
Director, Women’s Behavioral Medicine, Women's Medicine Collaborative, a Lifespan Partner
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior 
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention
for Tic Disorders (MC004)
11:00 am – 1:00 pm

John Piacentini, PhD 
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences  UCLA School of Medicine
Director, Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program
University of California, Los Angeles  

Introduction to Complicated Grief (MC008)

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Katherine Shear, MD 

Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University School of Social Work
and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Director, Complicated Grief Research and Training Program
Director, Complicated Grief Treatment Program, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Director, Bereavement and Grief Program, Columbia University School of Social Work

Challenges in Treating Hoarding in Midlife and Older Adults (MC009)

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Gail Steketee, PhD

Dean and Professor

Boston University School of Social Work 

The Art of Persuasion: Changing the Mind
on OCD (MC013)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Reid Wilson, PhD
Director, Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry  
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

CALM: Computer-Assisted CBT for Anxiety and Comorbid Depression (MC014)
1:15 pm – 3:15 pm          

First row: Michelle Craske, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles; Stacy Shaw-Welch, PhD. Anxiety and Stress Reduction Center, Seattle, Washington
Second row: Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, University of Washington, Seattle; Meghan Keough, PhD, Florida State University, Tallahassee