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Meet Our UCLA Child OCD Anxiety & Tic Disorders Clinic Team
John Piacentini, PhD
Emily J. Ricketts, PhD, MS
Gil D. Hoftman, MD, PhD
Erika Nurmi, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Faculty
Dr. Nurmi is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the UCLA Pediatric OCD Intensive Outpatient Program, faculty in the Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Clinic, and director of a molecular and computational genetics laboratory in the Semel Institute UCLA Semel Institute. Dr. Nurmi's research focuses on the genetic basis of obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders, employing next generation molecular and computational approaches.