Authors
Ms Hawkins is a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine. She has an interest in both academic psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.
Dr Wilsa Charles Malveaux is a sports psychiatrist in Los Angeles, California, and CEO of WCM Sports Psych. She is an advocate and educator on the intersection of mental health, sports, and racial and social justice. Dr Charles Malveaux lends her expertise as a psychiatric consultant to multiple national sport-related agencies, professional sports teams, and organizations. She served for over 4 years as the Western Regional Trustee (region 4) on the Board of Black Psychiatrists of America. Dr Charles Malveaux now serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Sports and Performance Psychiatry (ABSPP), as well as on advisory boards for organizations serving the community.
Dr Hovis is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Mr McCabe is the communications officer for YSM Social Media and Audience Development.
Dr Oldak is a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
Dr El-Shammaa is a psychiatry-trained addiction medicine fellow at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
Dr Mullen is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Dr Kashani is a board-certified sleep medicine physician who practices in Santa Monica, Porter Ranch, and Santa Clarita. He is currently president of the California Sleep Society and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr Jenkins is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Dr Nyer is a clinical psychologist at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Barbato is the chief medical officer of Incannex Healthcare.
Dr Thomas is an assistant professor in the Henry J.N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr Yaden is the Griffiths Professor in Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He is a research associate at the University of Oxford and the cofounder of the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE). He studies brief experiences with the potential for long-term positive impact. His current research at the Yaden Lab focuses on psychedelic experiences, including their risks, benefits, and mechanisms.
Ms Tobias holds an MS in psychosocial kinesiology from Oregon State University, where she focused her research on access to sport for women and girls. She currently serves on the development team at Coach Across America, supporting the mission to provide every child with a dedicated coach-mentor.
Dr Spada is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an associate program director for the psychiatry residency program at UPMC. She is also codirector of the residency program’s Academic Administrator, Clinician Educator Track and codirector of the Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry Area of Concentration.
Dr Kruse is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.
Dr Khan is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and serves as a staff psychiatrist at VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Dr Gurvich is an associate professor at the HER Centre Australia, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University.
Ms Asmar is a psychology PhD student at the University of Denver.
Ms Fleming is the communications manager for the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Mr Choi is a fourth-year medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a clinical research coordinator at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Ms Backman is a senior science writer/editor at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr Penberthy is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. She is also the associate director of the UVA Health Clinician Wellness Program and the codirector of the Effective Coping and Communication Skills for Clinicians Program.
Mr Drozek is the clinical director of the Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean Hospital. He also serves as a staff psychotherapist in the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean. He is a trainer and supervisor in MBT through the Anna Freud Centre in London, England, and a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Hathaway is a PGY-3 resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.



