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Master Clinician Sessions, Thursday, April 4
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








