Thursday, July 30, 2020 | 8:00am – 5:00pmHyatt Regency Seattle, Room TBD
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 5th 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.
The IOCDF Research Symposium runs 8:00am–5:00pm on Thursday, July 30th, 2020, with the Poster Session running from 4:00pm–5:00pm. The full schedule of presenters and topics will be available April 2020.