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
Nations Represented (N = 21): Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, England, Greece, Iceland, India,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, USA
ATF Members and Authors:
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
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
Daniel Costa, MD, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
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
Annie Fellows, B.Sc. (Hons), University of Bath, UK
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
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
Andrew Moses Lee, MD, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, USA
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
Sean Perrin, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
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
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:
Emily Mizzi, BSc (Hons, in progress), McGill University, Canada
Stefania Bielkina, BA (in progress), McGill University, Canada