Thursday, July 18, 2019 Lone Star F/G
Co-Chairs: Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD , & Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD
The goal of this Symposium is to provide a forum for high-level discussion of research topics among people who specialize in the study of OCD and related disorders. The IOCDF Research Symposium grew out of the popular regional New England OCD Research Symposium (NERS), originally created by Dr. Christopher Pittenger and co-sponsored by Yale University and the International OCD Foundation. In an effort to expand the reach of this invaluable research forum, we began offering the symposium as a Pre-Conference event in 2016.
Now in its 4th year, the Symposium is intended as a complement to the “Research to Clinical Practice” track for researchers who attend the Annual OCD Conference. The Research Symposium brings researchers together from around the world to discuss their findings, fostering increased collaboration and networking across research groups. This is in contrast to the “Research to Clinical Practice” track, where research findings are presented to a mixed audience of researchers, therapists, and consumers who are interested in advanced level topics. It is our hope that these complementary offerings will make the Annual OCD Conference a truly enriching experience for OCD and related disorders researchers.
We are very excited to announce that this year’s symposium will feature a keynote presentation by Odile van den Heuvel, MD, PhD . Dr. van den Heuvel is a psychiatrist and professor of neuropsychiatry at Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands. She is the leader of the ENIGMA-OCD consortium, an international research team that recently completed the largest-ever cortical imaging study for OCD. Other presentations will include talks from leaders in the field of OCD and related disorders, including: Darren Dougherty, MD, MMSc, Thomas Adams, PhD, Evelyn Stewart, MD, Bradley Riemann, PhD, Blair Simpson, MD, PhD, Gerd Kvale, PhD, Bjarne Hansen, PhD, Martin Franklin, PhD, Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD, and Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD. The program is organized by topic, and at the end of each section a senior researcher will moderate a discussion amongst attendees and presenters. The day concludes with a poster session.
Click here to register for the IOCDF Research Symposium on Thursday, July 18, 2019.
7:30am – Coffee
8:00am – Welcome and Introduction
~ Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD and Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD 8:10am – Keynote: Understanding the OCD Brain Through Worldwide Collaboration
~ Odile A. van den Heuvel, MD, PhD 9:00am – Break 9:15am – Symposium #1: Neurostimulation, moderated by Wayne Goodman, MD ~ Thomas G. Adams, PhD – Transcranial stimulation of the medial frontal cortex improves exposure-relevant learning in OCD: The potential role of default mode connectivity ~ Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD – Advancing Rapid-Acting Cortical Brain Stimulation for OCD: Pilot Test of Novel Targets and Paradigms ~ Darin Dougherty, MD, MMSc – Updates on Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going? 10:45am – Break 11:00am – Symposium #2: Psychotherapy, moderated by Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD ~ Gerd Kvale, PhD and Bjarne Hansen, PhD – The Bergen 4-day: An innovative approach to treating OCD ~ Bradley C. Riemann, PhD – Dissemination of a Standard Training and Treatment Protocol for OCD in a Multi-state Behavioral Health System ~ H. Blair Simpson, MD, PhD – Harnessing Technology Towards Curing OCD 12:30pm – Buffet Lunch 1:00pm – Symposium #3: Pediatric OCD Topics, moderated by Eric Storch, PhD
~ Martin Franklin, PhD – Pediatric OCD: Where We Are, and Where We Still Need to Go ~ S. Evelyn Stewart, MD – Trait and State Markers in Childhood-Onset OCD ~ Chris Pittenger, MD, PhD – Striatal cholinergic interneurons in the pathophysiology of PANDAS 2:30pm – Break 2:45pm – Symposium #4: Research Highlights, moderated by Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD and Emily Stern, PhD ~ Jenna Ramirez, PhD – The scariest ‘happiest’ time of their life – OCD in women and men during the perinatal period ~ Ashton Megli – Analysis of eye-tracking in value-based decision making in OCD ~ Alessandro S. De Nadai, PhD – Machine learning in OCD research: Past, present, and future ~ Amitai Abramovitch, PhD – Symptom severity and neurocognitive functions in OCD: The end of the state vs trait debate? ~ Jennifer Krafft, MS – The function of hoarding in the moment and its relationship to psychological flexibility ~ Martha J. Falkenstein, PhD – Empirically-derived response trajectories of intensive/residential treatment in OCD 4:00pm – Poster Session Posters are located in the Level 3 Foyer Alcove, opposite the Lone Star Ballroom Light Appetizers Served & Open Bar