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Thompson Centre

Public Forum: Advances and Evolution in OCD Treatment

When: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Where: McLaughlin Auditorium EG18A - Bayview Campus, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5

Join us for a free evening educational event open to people experiencing OCD, their loved ones, and the broader public interested in learning more.

Learn about how OCD treatment has changed over the years and what new options are now available and connect with representatives from various community groups and resources and hear voices from persons with lived and living experience of OCD.

Light refreshments served.

Featuring special guest:
Dr. Caitlin M. Pinciotti, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Caitlin Pinciotti is a licensed psychologist and assistant professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology with a Trauma Psychology focus at Northern Illinois University and completed her pre-doctoral residency and post-doctoral fellowship at Rogers Behavioral Health in the OCD and Anxiety track. Dr. Pinciotti has treated individuals with OCD and PTSD at all levels of care, ranging from community and Veterans’ Administration outpatient clinics to PHP/IOP and residential treatment. She serves as Co-Chair of the International OCD Foundation Trauma and PTSD in OCD Special Interest Group and is the Chair of the Special Interest Group’s Science and Research Committee. Dr. Pinciotti’s research focuses on the assessment, conceptualization, and treatment of OCD, trauma, and PTSD, in particular when these conditions and experiences intersect. She has given more than 40 conference presentations and published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these topics.

Moderated by Dr. Nir Lipsman, Chief of the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

  • Justice-based ERP: applications for identity-related OCD themes: Dr. Caitlin Pinciotti, Baylor College of Medicine
  • What’s new in the treatment of OCD? – Dr. Peggy Richter, Psychiatrist, Head, Thompson Centre
  • Neuromodulation for OCD – Dr. Peter Giacobbe, Clinical Lead, Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation

 Also streaming live on the Sunnybrook Hospital YouTube channel: youtube.com/@SunnybrookHospital