CMHC News Archive

Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, MD; Caroline Dumont, MD, MPH; Emma Lo, MD; Annie Harper, PhD; Billy Bromage, MSW; and Lori Wallace, PhD, MPH advocate in The Hartford Courant for officials to stop displacing the homeless from encampments in Connecticut.

Philip Corlett, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, was a keynote speaker at the Chen Institute and Science magazine conference titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health.”

Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center and of neuroscience, spoke to The New York Times about consequences of binge watching and other uses of technology that can have negative consequences on mental health.

Two Yale School of Medicine scientists have been awarded a five-year, $76 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their project titled, “ProCAN: Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Compound Assessment Network,” as part of the Accelerated Medicines Partnership® – Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ). Scott W. Woods, MD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, and Youngsun T. Cho, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and in the Child Study Center, will lead the five-year study in collaboration with investigators from 17 other research sites.

The Partnership for Early Education Research (PEER) has released the final report from a collaborative evaluation of an early childhood educator workforce development program administered by the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC).

Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, spoke to National Public Radio for a story about misconceptions surrounding obsessive-compulsive disorder. Pittenger is director of the Yale OCD Research Clinic.

Derrick M. Gordon, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been selected to participate in the Transforming Biomedical Research and Academic Faculty through Leadership Opportunities, Training, and Mentorship (TRANSFORM) Program.

Eight YCSC pediatric psychologists are now embedded in a wide range of primary care and medical subspecialities at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, offering targeted behavioral health care to medically complex youth.

The Yale Pediatric Gender Program (YPGP) and its co-founder and director, Christy Olezeski, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, have been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) Community Partnership Award.