Michael Van Ameringen Editor

Dr Michael Van Ameringen, MD, is Co-Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at McMaster University Medical Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of book chapters, reviews, and journal articles, and has presented the results of his research both nationally and internationally. His research interests include the psychopharmacology of social phobia, childhood anxiety disorders, OCD spectrum disorders (including trichotillomania and skin picking), treatment resistance in anxiety disorders and several other areas of study. Dr Mark Pollack received his M.D. in 1982 from New Jersey Medical School, and completed residency and fellowship training in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been Director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at the Massachusetts General Hospital since 1990 and is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.