Alec Pollard

Alec Pollard is the founding director of the Center for OCD and Anxiety-Related Disorders at the Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, and Professor emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

He is a certified psychologist with more than 40 years of experience, who works with a variety of obsessive-compulsive and anxiety-related disorders, with a special interest in obstacles that might inhibit the search for recovery or interfere with effective participation in treatment. 

He is a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation and chairs its training subcommittee, which includes a national training initiative called Behavior Therapy Training Institute. He was president of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, including his most recent book translated into Spanish entitled When a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment: How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family's Well-Being

Liz Basáñez

She is a psychologist graduated with honors from the Faculty of Psychology of the Anahuac University, Mexico, with more than 30 years of experience. She has a master's degree in clinical psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and completed a Fellowship in CBT for OCD and anxiety disorders at the SLBMI under the supervision of Dr. Alec Pollard. 

She is part of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Psychology of the Anahuac University, Mexico, for the period 2023-2025, and of the Conference Proposal Review Committee for the Online TOC Conference.

She is part of the staff from the Planning Committee of the TOC Conference online from the IOCDF and creator of the diploma “Cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders” taught at the Anahuac University.