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OCF Scientific Advisory Board

The OC Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is made up of mental health professionals who are treating or researching Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the OCD Spectrum disorders. Our SAB members are among the best clinicians and investigators in the United States who treat or research OCD and the OC Spectrum Disorders. SAB members are psychiatrists, psychologists and other types of well-trained therapists.

Current membership is as follows:

Michael Jenike, M.D., Chair
Mass General Hospital
Boston, MA

Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Lewis R. Baxter, Jr., M.D.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Lisa Jo Bertman-Pate, Ph.D.
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Thröstur Björgvinsson, Ph.D.
The Menninger Clinic
Houston, TX

Nancee Blum, M.S.W., LICSW
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

John E. Calamari, Ph.D.
Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL

Dennis S. Charney, M.D.
Mt. Sinai, New York, NY

Jim Claiborn, Ph.D., ABPP
Northeast Occupational Exchange
Portland, ME

Vladimir Coric, M.D.
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Darin D. Dougherty, M.D.
Masschusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA

Lee A. Fitzgibbons, Ph.D.
Bethlehem, NH

Edna B. Foa, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Steven Friedman, Ph.D., ABPP
Health Sciences Center
Brooklyn, NY

Randy Frost, Ph.D
Harold Edward and Elsa Siipola Israel,
Northampton, MA

Wayne K. Goodman, M.D.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Eda Gorbis, Ph.D., M.F.C.C.
Westwood Institute
Los Angeles, CA

Jonathan Grayson, Ph.D.
The Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center
Bala Cynwyd, PA

Benjamin D. Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Butler Hospital, Providence, RI

John H. Greist, M.D.
Madison Institute of Medicine,
Madison, WI

William A. Hewlett, M.D., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Eric Hollander, M.D.
Mt. Sinai School of Med.
New York, NY

Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D., LCSW
Hollywood, FL

Nancy J. Keuthen, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA

Suck Won Kim, M.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Lorrin M. Koran, M.D.
Stanford Univ. Medical Center Stanford, CA

Bruce Mansbridge, Ph.D.
Austin Center for the Treatment of OCD
Austin, TX

Charles S. Mansueto, Ph.D.
Behavior Therapy Center of Greater WA, Silver Spring, MD

Brian Martis, M.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Paul R. Munford, Ph.D.
The Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center for OCD & Anxiety
San Rafael, CA

Gerald Nestadt, MD, Ph.D.
John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Fugen Neziroglu, Ph.D.
Bio Behavioral Institute
Great Neck, NY

Deb Osgood-Hynes, Psy.D.
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA

David Pauls, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School,
Charlestown, MA

Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
Western Suffolk Psychological Services, Huntington, NY

Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

C. Alec Pollard, Ph.D.
St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, St. Louis, MO

Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD

Steven Rasmussen, M.D.
Butler Hospital, Providence, RI

Scott L. Rauch, M.D.
Masschusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA

Bradley C. Riemann, Ph.D.
Rogers Memorial Hospital
Oconomowoc, WI

Barbara Rothbaum, Ph.D.
Emory Clinic, Atlanta, GA

Sanjaya Saxena, MD
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Los Angeles, CA

Diane S. Sholomskas, Ph.D.
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Gail Steketee, Ph.D.
Boston University, Boston, MA

S. Evelyn Stewart, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Eric A. Storch, Ph.D.
Univ. of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Thomas H. Styron, Ph.D.
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Christina J. Taylor, Ph.D.
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Barbara L. Van Noppen, Ph.D.
Brown University, Providence, RI

Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA

Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, M.D
Bio Behavioral Institute
Great Neck, NY

The responsibilities of the OCF SAB include:

  • Provide expertise on the scientific issues with which the OCF and its constituency are concerned;
  • Review and evaluate the research proposals submitted to the OCF for funding;
  • Provide clinical treatment for people with OCD;
  • Do research into the causes and treatment of OCD;
  • Provide training for mental health professionals interested in treating OCD and OC Spectrum Disorders;
  • Write articles on OCD for their colleagues and the public;
  • Give presentations on topics of interest to the OCD community

Scientific Advisory Board members work together with the
OCF’s Board of Directors to achieve the OCF’s mission:
“Effective Treatment for Everyone with OCD”