Transforming Treatment Outcomes for Individuals with OCD

Sponsored by The Ewald W. Busse, MD, ScD Lectureship Endowment Fund

Helen Blair Simpson, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical College (CUIMC) and Director of the Center for the OCD and Related Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) since 1999, she uses clinical trials to identify the best treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and partners with neuroscientists to elucidate how the brain produces anxiety, obsessions, and compulsions, with the goal of transforming care for individuals with OCD. Past advisor to the World Health Organization on the classification of OCD and author of the American Psychiatric Association's Practice Guidelines for OCD, Dr. Simpson currently serves as Associate Editor of JAMA-Psychiatry and is the current President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.