Sharon has provided outstanding service to children and families at WPIC for more than 20 years while maintaining a fresh, positive, energetic can-do attitude towards kids, parents, physicians, and fellow clinicians. While her immunity to compassion-fatigue is striking, her truly outstanding quality is her commitment to clinical excellence.

Sharon executes her duties thoroughly, with competence and professionalism, and an appropriately used dry sense of humor. Sharon's coverage of OCD IOP (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Intensive OutPatient) groups and creative design and employment of clinical exposure treatments has been a model example of adding a new skill set in mid-career. More than this, Sharon has become an expert in exposure and response prevention CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)[treatment].

Sharon will often give her wry smile to a youngster with OCD who is desperately seeking reassurance (what OCD clinicians call accommodations)from her and say in a kind tone: "Your OCD is asking me for something, and I'm not talking to your OCD today." This expertise and willingness to do whatever was needed has been evident in her coverage of the OCD IOP during several colleagues' recent maternity leaves. In a small program such situations are difficult and Sharon has not hesitated to assume responsibilities and work extraordinarily hard in the service of our young patients and the program. Thank you Sharon!