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Jami Woods, DPh, MD
Originally a pharmacist, Dr. Woods went on to complete medical school and practiced primary care medicine for approximately eight years. She then completed a second residency in Psychiatry, and she is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Woods is licensed to practice medicine in California. She acquired a subspecialty certification from the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and is full time Health Sciences Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UC Riverside and lives in Palm Springs CA. Giving continuing medical education talks for audiences of up to 2000 prescribers requires energy and confidence and she was fortunate enough to have been gifted with both. In addition to her love of teaching psychopharmacology, her interactions with her medical students and residents keep her young, she states. In November 2017 she began to fulfill a lifelong dream of transitioning medically and surgically from male to female. In addition to providing state-of-the-art psychopharmacology for behavioral disorders she also provides individualized gender affirming hormone therapy to her transgender/gender expansive individuals.
David Brent, MD
David Brent is the Academic Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he holds the UPMC Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies. Dr. Brent has focused on understanding the epidemiology, risk and protective factors for adolescent depression and suicide and on translating those findings into evidence-based interventions. His work has helped to shape the guidelines for the assessment and management of adolescent suicidal behavior and depression, including approaches to treatment-resistant depression. Dr. Brent co-founded and directs the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania-funded Services for Teens at Risk, a program that has treated over 7000 suicidal adolescents since 1986. He led studies on the impact of parental loss on child and adolescent outcome and along with colleague Nadine Melhem, helped to define prolonged grief in bereaved children and adolescents. Currently, he is involved in the developing machine learning algorithms to identify youth at risk from health records and developing digital tools to promote safety planning and adherence to treatment. Dr. Brent is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and has been recognized for his work by the APA, AACAP, and the Brain and Behavior Foundation.