The Media, Medicine, and Mental Health

ADAA Member Shane Owens is an award-winning, board-certified behavioral and cognitive psychologist. Dr. Owens specializes in treating young adults and parents with anxiety problems, anger issues, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He is the Assistant Director of Campus Mental Health Services at Farmingdale State College, a campus of the State University of New York.

Aneri Pattani is a national correspondent with KHN, a national nonprofit news outlet focused on health policy topics. She covers a wide range of public health stories with a focus on mental health and substance use. In her previous reporting, she has revealed the influence of lobbyists on state opioid policy and exposed a community college system’s plan to eliminate mental health services, sparking student protest and a partial policy reversal. Pattani has also worked as a health reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, WNYC (New York City's NPR station) and The New York Times. She was a 2019 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.

Dr. David Cennimo is a graduate of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, class of 2001, before continuing on in the combined Internal Medicine - Pediatrics residency. After residency, he served as Medicine chief resident for University Hospital, and then completed fellowships in both adult and pediatric Infectious Diseases.  Currently, Dr. Cennimo is practicing clinical infectious diseases and infection control as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics while also serving as an Associate Dean of Education and the Med-Peds residency associate program director. Dr. Cennimo’s clinical interests include long term HIV care, antibiotic resistance, tuberculosis, vaccine hesitancy, and emerging pathogens.