Dr. Anoop Karippot, MD is a Board-Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, General Psychiatrist and Sleep Medicine specialist. He is an author, researcher and clinician practicing in San Diego, California. He is well known nationally and internationally providing lectures and workshops in the area of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He supervises Medical Students, Residents, Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and lectures at University of California San Diego.

Kelly Graling, Ph.D. is the Clinical Director at Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants of Westchester and Manhattan, a group of internationally recognized mental health professionals who have pioneered and are experienced in delivering cutting edge treatments to the public, organizations, and professionals. As a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Graling trains and consults to school districts, agencies, and corporations to implement CBT and DBT skills on a national and international level. Dr. Graling supervises CBC staff, leads therapy groups, as well as conducts therapy for teens, young adults, and families.

K Thomas is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and has been working with survivors of sexual and relationship violence since 2010. They have worked in many capacities including case management, staffing crisis and emergency response hotlines, victim advocacy, and psychotherapy services. Providing services to individuals of varied identities, they have worked with victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual abuse, stalking, and human trafficking. With a background in training and research, K has facilitated numerous trainings on trauma-informed service provision to a wide range of victim populations.

As Clinical Training Manager for North County Lifeline’s Project LIFE, K has provided trauma-reprocessing, victim advocacy, emergency response, and psychotherapy to survivors of trafficking and exploitation. K provides training and development to staff, collaborative partners, community members, and service providers on a range of training topics related to human trafficking and best practice. K is also a co-founder and co-chair of the California Human Trafficking Advocates Network for Collaboration and Empowerment (CHANCE)

Ms. Wright received her Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Colorado and her Masters in Social Work from Denver University. Ms. Wright is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and worked with SBCS for 30+ years. SBCS is a diverse nonprofit organization that provides multiple services for children, youth and families, including immigrant youth. As the Clinical Director of SBCS Ms. Wright oversees the agency’s clinical services & has provided Clinical Supervision for 25+ years to students, staff and individuals working towards professional development and licensure. Ms. Wright has been a trainer for over 24 years training on many topics including Trauma and the Impact of Trauma, Trauma Informed Care and Cultural Sensitivity. Recently Ms. Wright was able to work with the project assisting unaccompanied immigrant youth and the many federal, state and county partners to support the placement & reunification of youth ages five years old to eighteen with family and/or sponsors.

Dr. Stephen Carson likes to consider himself a Pediatrician, a Pulmonologist, a Medical Educator, a Health Care Consultant and most of all a staunch advocate of patients and the front line workers who care for them. Dr. Carson grew up in Montreal where his research in the "70's formed the basis of today's use of steroids in pregnant mothers to prevent the death of premature infants from Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Dr. Carson continued his work while training at Children's Hospital in Boston before being recruited to the faculty at UCSD School of Medicine where he continues to train nurses, medical students and residents.

Since 1980, Dr. Carson has served as the medical director of Children's Healthcare in Hillcrest with 6 pediatricians pediatric providers and one nurse practitioner serving approximately 8,000 patients. Three years ago, he started the behavioral program to be described in this presentation that is integrated into a busy primary care pediatric practice. Their pediatricians and two full time psychotherapists have now managed over 400 unique children with behavioral problems. The program works closely with doctoral psychologists and psychiatrists from Rady Children's Hospital, UCSD School of Medicine and a wide variety of community and school based psychologists who perform evidence based psychological evaluations when clinically indicated to clarify cognitive and diagnostic assessments of patients.

Dr. Horvath has specialized in addictive problems since 1985, including work with adults, teens, couples, and families. He is founder and president of Practical Recovery Psychology Group, past president of the American Psychological Association (APA)’s Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50; the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists), and author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions, recommended as a self-help book by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). He was an instructor of graduate addiction courses at Alliant International University and the University of San Diego. For 20 years he was the volunteer president of SMART Recovery (established 1994), an international non-profit offering free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups. He continues to serve on SMART’s US board of directors and the Global Research Advisory Council of SMART Recovery International. He is a fellow of the San Diego Psychological Association, ABCT, and APA.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and full-time physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Double board-certified in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, Dr. Olson-Kennedy has been providing clinical services for transgender and non-binary children, adolescents, and young adults for the past 16 years. Additionally, she spearheads a rigorous research program aimed at understanding the experience of gender dysphoria from early childhood through young adulthood. Dr. Olson-Kennedy has spoken around the world about timely and thoughtful care for transgender and non-binary young people and is considered a national expert about such care.

Dr. Alphonso Nichols is a Board-Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and General Psychiatrist who is in Private Practice in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an avid speaker and clinician. He has been practicing evaluation and management of Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Louisville, KY. He supervises medical Students and residents and lectures at University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Robert D. Friedberg is a tenured Full Professor at Palo Alto University and a licensed clinical psychologist. Friedberg is a Board Certified Diplomate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a former Extra-mural Scholar at the Beck Institute for CBT, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a Fellow of the both the American Psychological Association and Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT). He is the author of 12 books including Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents (with Jessica McClure), CBT-Express (with Jessica McClure, Micaela Thordarson, & Marisa Keller), Handbook of CBT for Pediatric Medical Conditions (with Jennifer Paternostro) ,Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Youth: Tradition and Innovation (with Brad Nakamura) and the forthcoming Creative CBT with Youth - Clinical Applications Using Humor, Play, Superheroes, and Improvisation (with Erica Rozmid) as well as well as journal articles, chapters, national/international presentations and continuing education workshops.

Kara Bagot, MD is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Deputy Medical Director of Mental Health at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. Her research background is in adolescent substance use disorders (SUDs) and overlapping childhood psychopathology. Dr. Bagot's current work focuses on the effects of technology on development of SUDs and psychiatric illness in children and adolescents, and ways to use mobile and digital technologies to improve assessment, monitoring and treatment adolescent SUDs.

Jessica Smith, Esq is the Senior Deputy County Counsel of San Diego in the Juvenile Dependency Unit. The Office we work with help to enforce rules and regulations provided in the Welfare and Institutions code, which address the rights of Individuals especially the children, minors and adolescents with mental health issues needing health care, social services and protection in the state of California.

Dr. Chenven is a board certified child & adolescent psychiatrist who is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD. He is Executive Medical Director at Vista Hill Foundation and is lead psychiatrist for the SmartCare Behavioral Health Consultation Program and innovative established integrated care program that has been operational for over 10 years. Dr. Chenven was formerly the chair of the American Academy of Child 7 Adolescent Psychiatry’s Work Group in Systems of Care and has been active in advocacy locally, statewide and nationally

Shawn Singh Sidhu, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego where he serves as Training Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program. He also serves as a Councilor-At-Large for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and on the American Psychiatric Association Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families. His primary clinical interests are Community Based Systems of Care, Immigrant Mental Health, and Native American Mental Health. He thanks his family, friends, mentors, and community without whose support none if his work would have been possible. Dr. Sidhu has published 5 papers on the topic of media, and has given 6 national presentations on this topic

Rafael Pelayo, MD is the author of How to Sleep and a clinical professor at Stanford University in the division of Sleep Medicine. Since 1993 he has worked at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic. He teaches the popular Dement’s Sleep and Dreams undergraduate course and co-authored the textbook with Dr. William Dement. He is the president of the California Sleep Society. He is the chair of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s Political Action Committee. He serves on advisory boards of the National Sleep Foundation and Start School Later. He has lectured throughout the country and internationally. He helped lead the effort to delay school start times in California. His clinical focus is the treatment of sleep disorders in children and adults.

Mauricio Torre is the VP of Business Operations at SBCS. Mauricio has worked with SBCS for 25 years. He is a first-generation Mexican American who has lived on both sides of the boarder for most of his life, and understands the plight of many of the children in the area. Mauricio has served as the principal administrator of over 30+ successful start-up programs at SBCS. Many of these programs serving local & immigrant youth and families in the South Bay area. Mauricio has worked with federal, state and local representatives to create, implement and manage services supporting needs of all community members, including those that have experienced difficult journeys and healing from trauma. Recently Mauricio was a key leader of the San Diego Emergency Influx Shelter, where 2400+ unaccompanied immigrant youth were placed and assisted in their reunification with family and/or sponsors

Dr. Turban (he/him) is a Chief Fellow in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He attended medical school at Yale School of Medicine and completed his adult psychiatry training in the MGH/McLean Residency Training Program (Harvard Medical School). His research focuses on the determinants of mental health among transgender and gender diverse youth and has been cited in the United Nations’ Independent Expert Report on Conversion Therapy, major civil rights cases throughout the U.S., and in news outlets including The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post. He is also a frequent op-ed writer on topics related to gender and sexuality with pieces in outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He is co-editor of the textbook Pediatric Gender Identity: Gender-affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.

Mike Phillips, Esq is the Senior Director of Patient Advocacy and Housing Services at Jewish Family Service of San Diego. He received his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. He is a member of the VIP Mentors (Volunteers in Parole) program, which awarded him their 2009 Attorney of the Year award for his work with mentoring recently incarcerated individuals. He is a member of the board and past president of the San Diego Psych-Law Society and is on the Patients' Rights Committee of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council. In his role as Senior Director at JFS, he provides instruction and training for the mental health community, including providing information on due process rights for psychiatric patients throughout the County of San Diego. He also manages permanent supportive housing programs throughout the Coachella Valley. He is currently consulting at the state level on behavioral health reform, including participation in the statewide Behavioral Health Action Coalition, and provides both local and statewide law enforcement training on behavioral health issues. He received the Patients’ Rights Advocate of the Year award from the California Association of Mental Health Patient’s Rights Advocates in 2009 and again in 2015. He received the Henrietta Rubenstein Staff Development Award (Employee of the Year) from Jewish Family Service in 2014. He was awarded the 2016 Šimanek Distinguished Service Award by the California Hospital Association, and he presents regularly at their statewide annual Behavioral Health Care Symposium. He is the San Diego Province President and is currently a member of the governing Council of the Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society, an organization that promotes ethics and professionalism among attorneys. He has also trained thousands of notaries public, was named the 2015 Notary of the Year Special Honoree by the National Notary Association, and is a regular presenter at NNA's annual national conference

Ms. Label is a licensed clinician who is the program manager of the SC-BHCS program. She coordinated implementation of the SmartCare Resiliency project with our pediatric partners at CPCMG clinics. Ms. Label supervises SC-BHCS clinical staff who offer psycho-educational interventions to parents whose children screen positive for exposure to adverse experiences, with the aim of enhancing resiliency building activities at home

Dr. Blair Peters (He/They) is an Assistant Professor in both the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of Urology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He attended medical school and completed his residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Manitoba. He then completed two fellowships. The first in peripheral nerve, hand, and microsurgery at the Washington University in St Louis. He is one of the first surgeons in North America to complete fellowship in comprehensive Gender-Affirming Surgery at OHSU. His clinical practice is full breadth gender-affirming surgery, including the care of adolescents. Research interests are focused on sensory and erogenous outcomes following genital gender-affirming surgery. Outside of clinical practice, he is both a member and a strong advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. He strives to continue to be a strong queer voice in medicine and surgery.

Dr. Bowers is the lead pediatrician at Rady’s CPCMG’s integrated care initiative to advance pediatric competency in behavioral health interventions and care. She has been active in implementation of ACEs screening activities at CPCMG clinics and is liaison from the pediatric group to the Resiliency project.