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 Abramowitz, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Lewis Baxter, Jr., M.D. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Lisa Jo Bertman, 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 Dan Egli, Ph.D. Williamsport, PA 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 Hewlett, M.D., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 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 University 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. Anxiety Treatment Center of Northern CA, Sacramento, 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 Steve 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 E. Sholomskas, Ph.D. Yale University, New Haven, CT Stephen Stahl, M.D., Ph.D. University of California at San Diego, Carsbad, CA Gail Steketee, Ph.D. Boston University, Boston, MA Evelyn S. Stewart, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 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 Yaryura-Tobias, MD 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”