Speaker
Colleen M. Cowperthwait, PhD & Gregory L. Sahlem, MD
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Sponsored by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Lectureship in Behavioral Medicine
Dr. Colleen Cowperthwait is a licensed clinical psychologist, Assistant Professor, and Associate Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Clinically, she provides individual and family-based cognitive behavioral interventions for adolescents, young adults, and adults with a variety of psychiatric and medical diagnoses, including personality pathology, chronic suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury, mood and anxiety disorders, and PTSD and trauma-related disorders. In her faculty role, she provides training, supervision, and education for graduate students, clinical psychology interns, and psychiatry residents. Dr. Cowperthwait has been recognized for her clinical teaching with an Outstanding Didactic Teaching Award from the Duke Psychiatry Residency Program and the Thomas M. Gorrie Clinical Impact Award from the Duke Clinical Leadership Program. Her research focuses on adaptation and implementation of contemporary, family-based and cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavioral therapies.
Dr. Sahlem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and addiction medicine, fellowship-trained in interventional psychiatry, and has advanced training in the treatment of addictive, mood, and sleep disorders. He is an active clinician and enthusiastic educator. He is additionally interested in the translational development of new treatments for mood and substance use disorders using circuit-based approaches.
Event Series
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds