Cannabis 101 and Spasmodic Dysphonia

Sherry Yafai, MD presented this talk virtually to the NSDA Los Angeles Area Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group on July 15, 2021.
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.