Michele Pato, MD is Professor and Associate Chair for Education, Della Martin Chair in Psychiatry and Associate Dean for Academic Scholarship at the Keck School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California (USC). She is the Principal Investigator of the Genomic Psychiatry Cohort, and recently received funding from the NIH to include 5,000 individuals suffering from OCD. Dr. Pato is internationally known for her genetic research, OCD clinical research and teaching. She is the Co-Director of the OCD Treatment and Research Program at Keck School of Medicine, USC.