Please join the Los Angeles Area Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group for a virtual meeting on Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 5pm Pacific Time.

Our guest speaker, Sherry Yafai, MD, (pictured right) will be discussing the topic “Cannabis 101” and her perspective on Spasmodic Dysphonia and the use of CBD and THC. Dr. Yafai is a Cannabis and Emergency Medicine physician at Providence St. John’s Medical Center since 2009. She started her medical career at UCSD Medical School graduating in 2005 and UCSD Emergency Medicine Residency in 2009. In 2017, after recreational marijuana laws had passed in California, Dr. Yafai opened her private Cannabis Clinic, the ReLeaf Institute, where she sees patients referred by physicians for cannabis education and treatment.

Dr. Yafai is the past Vice President of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, the Medical Director of In Home Infusion, member of the National Advisory Board for the Center for Medical Cannabis Research at UCSD, as well as a renowned speaker for medical education. In 2018 she was accepted as an Adjunct Associate Professor at John Wayne Cancer Institute (now the Saint Johns Cancer Research Institute) working to educate physicians, clinicians, and other health care providers on the most up to date clinical data and research in the field of Cannabis. She is the author of “The Case for Cannabis” the monthly column in Emergency Medicine News Magazine, the upcoming Merck Manual Cannabis Chapter and a consultant for a new CBD oil, Ulli Organics.

We look forward to this informative discussion and we hope you do, too!