Dr. Westwell-Roper is an MD/PhD clinician scientist completing fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry. She also works as a general psychiatrist with the Coastal Early Psychosis Intervention team. She has a clinical interest in consultation-liaison psychiatry and research expertise in psychoneuroimmunology. Her research with the BC Children’s Hospital Provincial OCD Program focuses on understanding the etiology, diagnosis, and management of immune-related comorbidities and physical symptoms impacting children and youth with neuropsychiatric disorders. She is the recipient of an International OCD Foundation Young Investigator Award.