OCD: A Broad Overview/Webinar by Gerald Nestadt, MBBCh, MPH, Johns Hopkins University

On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, Gerald Nestadt, MBBCh, MPH, will give a talk via Zoom, “OCD: A Broad Overview,” as part of the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series. Dr. Nestadt will cover the history, phenomenology (the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience), epidemiology (the study of the distribution, determinants, and control of health-related states or events in populations), and treatment options for obsessive compulsive disorder. Alan Hu Foundation President Xiaofang Chen shared, “Many young people struggle with OCD. We want to offer help, hope, and support to them and their families. We appreciate Three Valleys Community Foundation for the generous grant to fund this webinar, and their commitment to mental health.”

Gerald Nestadt is the Rudolf Hoehn-Saric MD and Evanne Hoehn-Saric MD Professor of Anxiety and OCD Research at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his medical training in South Africa and his psychiatric training at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore. He pursued additional training in psychiatric epidemiology. His primary academic focus is OCD (genetics, epidemiology, and computational), and has led both university-based and national collaborative groups studying the genetics of OCD. In addition to research endeavors, he has directed the Hopkins OCD clinic and taught students and residents for the past forty years.

The free webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 5:00-6:00 pm PT via Zoom. It will include 15 minutes for questions and answers following Dr. Nestadt’s presentation. Please RSVP by April 21, 2025, at: https://alanhufoundation.org/ to receive the Zoom meeting link. Participants may join beginning at 4:45 pm PT. The Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities at https://www.mhacc-usa.org will provide simultaneous Chinese interpretation.

The Alan Hu Foundation was created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, Alan. He passed away due to mental disorders in 2018 at the age of 15. Their mission is to promote mental health, raise awareness and remove stigma surrounding psychiatric disorders, and to support fundamental research for cures.

For further information and to support the Alan Hu Foundation, please visit the website: https://alanhufoundation.org/helping