CIOCD 21 Nation International Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Accreditation Task Force (ATF)

Chair, Debbie Sookman, PhD, McGill University, Canada and David Veale, MD, Kings College London, UK

Senior Consultant: Katharine Phillips, MD, Cornell University, USA

Yoshinari Abe, MD, PhD, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan

Yaseen Syed Ahmed, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India

Lila Amirali, MD, University of Montreal, Canada

Gideon Anholt, PhD, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Paul Arnold, MD, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada

Fernando Asbahr, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Kristina Aspvall, PhD, Karolinska Instituet, Sweden

Srinivas Balachander, MD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Emily Becker-Haimes, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Shannon Bennett, PhD, Cornell University, USA

Noah Berman, PhD, College of the Holy Cross, USA

Sunil Bhar, PhD, Swinburn University of Technology, Australia

Victoria Bream, PhD, Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, UK

Brian P. Brennan, MD, MMSc, Harvard University, USA

Rosa Calvo, MD, PhD, University of Barcelona, Spain

Sandra Capaldi, PsyD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

David Castle, MD, MSc, University of Toronto, Canada

Fiona L. Challacombe, PhD, King’s College London, UK

Augusta Chandler, B.A. (Hons), DipCoT, PGCert, Royal Holloway, London, UK

Kezia Christopher, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India

Barbara Coffey, MD, University of Miami, USA

Meredith Coles, PhD, Binghampton University, USA

Danielle Cornacchio, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Jesse Cougle, PhD, Florida State University, USA

Julia Cox, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Michelle G. Craske, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Diane Dallal, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Maria Alice de Mathis, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Diksha Dugar, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India

Christine D’Urso, PhD, Hofstra Northwell, USA

Qing Fan, MD, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Lara Farrell, PhD, Griffith University, Australia

Jamie Feusner, MD, University of Toronto, Canada

Edna Foa, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mark Freeston, PhD, Newcastle University, UK

Ben Greenberg, MD, Brown University, USA

Erica Greenberg, MD, Harvard University, USA

Shayna Greenberg, M.A., Loma Linda University; University of California Los Angeles, USA

Sisi Guo, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Gregory L. Hanna, MD, University of Michigan, USA

Dianne Hezel, PhD, Columbia University, USA

Mike Himle, PhD, University of Utah, USA

James Hodgins, PhD, Loma Linda University; University of California Los Angeles, USA

Marcelo Hoexter, MD, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil

David Højgaard, PhD, Aarhus University Hospital Psychiatry, Denmark

Robert Hudak, MD, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Jonathan Huppert, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Y.C. Janardhan Reddy, D.P.M., M.D., National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Amita Jassi, PhD, King’s College London, UK

Jemimah Johnson, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India

Minah Kim, MD, PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea

Lorrin Koran, MD, Stanford University, USA

Georgina Krebs, PhD, University College London, UK 

Jun Soo Kwon, MD, Seoul National University, South Korea

Nuria Lanzagorta, MSc, Carracci Medical Group, Mexico

Judith Laposa, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada

Andrew Moses Lee, MD, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA 

Adam Lewin, PhD, University of South Florida, USA

Christine Lochner, PhD, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Omar Lopez, MSc, MFT, Clinica de Disciplinas Cognitivo Conductuales, Mexico

Helen Macdonald, PhD, BABCP, UK

Munivenkatappa Manjula, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Donatella Marazziti, MD, University of Pisa, Italy

Sabina Marriott, B.Sc. (Hons), PGCert, PGDip, King’s College London, UK

Kuno Masaru, MD, PhD, Chiba University Hospital, Japan

David Mataix-Cols, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Hisato Matsunaga, MD, Hyogo Medical University, Japan

Joseph F. McGuire, PhD, John Hopkins University, USA

Nicole McLaughlin, PhD, Brown University, USA

Euripides Constantino Miguel, MD, PhD, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil

Anju Nair, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India

Gerald Nestadt, MD, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Fugen Neziroglu, PhD, Bio-Behavioral Institute, USA

Humberto Nicolini, MD, PhD, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Anna Nisyraiou, PhD, University of Macedonia, Greece

Erika Nurmi, MD, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Emily Olfson, MD, PhD, Yale University, USA

Ilenia Pampaloni, MD, South West London and St Georges NHS Trust, UK

Michele Pato, MD, Rutgers University, USA

Rebecca Pedley, PhD, University of Manchester, UK

Tara Peris, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Katharine Phillips, MD, Cornell University, USA

John Piacentini, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA 

Anthony Pinto, PhD, Hofstra Northwell, USA

Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, Yale University, USA

C. Alec Pollard, PhD, Saint Louis University, USA

Vivian Qi, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada

Carolyn I. Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA

Michelle Rozenman, PhD, University of Denver, USA

Moira A. Rynn, MD, Duke University Medical Center, USA

Khodayar Shahriyarmolki, PhD, King’s College London, UK

Sanjaya Saxena, MD, University of California San Diego, USA

Eesha Sharma, MD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Roseli Gedanke Shavitt, MD, PhD, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil

Gregoris Simos, MD, University of Macedonia, Greece

Meropi Simou, PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

H. Blair Simpson, MD, Columbia University, USA

Gudmundur Skarphéðinsson, Ph.D., University of Iceland, Iceland 

Norbert Skokauskas, MD, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Ingrid Söchting, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada 

Debbie Sookman, PhD, McGill University, Canada

Dan J. Stein, MD, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Eric A. Storch, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Paulomi Sudhir, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Laura J. Summerfeldt, PhD, Trent University, Canada

Shyam Sundar Arumugham, MD, DNB, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Jeff Szymanski, PhD, Harvard University, USA

Marlene Taube-Schiff, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada

Nor Christian Torp, PhD, University of Bergen, Denmark

Michael Treanor, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Michael Van Ameringen, MD, McMaster University, Canada

Barbara Van Noppen, PhD, University of Southern California, USA

Patricia van Oppen, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands

David Veale, MD, King’s College London, UK

Henny Visser, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands

John Walkup, MD, Northwestern University, USA

Polly Waite, DClinPsy, PhD, University of Oxford, UK

Michael Wheaton, PhD, Columbia University, USA

Lidewij H. Wolters, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands

Mina Yadegar, PsyD, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Elna Yadin, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Carolina Zarate, MD, PhD, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Kayla Zebrowski, MSW, LCSW, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Wang Zhen, MD, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, P.R.China

Daniel Zigman, MD, McGill University, Canada

ATF Assistants:

Stefania Bielkina, BA (in progress), McGill University, Canada

Annika Gravenor, BSc, McGill University, Canada

Abby Zhu, BA (in progress), McGill University, Canada