Yale NAMI Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health
The annual Yale-NAMI Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health 2024 will be held Saturday, April 20 in The Anlyan Center Auditorium. This year’s Mental Health Advocacy Award will be presented to Dr. Lawrence Hartmann to honor his achievements in getting homosexuality depathologized and removed from the DSM in the 1970s.
The Yale NAMI Mental Health Conference, held each spring on a Saturday at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, provides an opportunity for community members, patients and their families, and providers to come together and hear about new advances in the care for mental illness from Yale experts. This event, which has been held annually since 1992, is sponsored by the Yale Department of Psychiatry, the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), and Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health.
The Mental Health Advocacy Award has been given by the Department of Psychiatry every year since 2006 and, in most years, is announced at the Neuroscience Conference. Past winners of this award have had major impacts on treatment, research, reduction of stigma, and enhancement of the wellbeing of those with mental illness through their advocacy, political action, and sharing of their own lived experience.
Neuroscience 2024 Conference
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Neuroscience 2023 Image Gallery
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Jacob Tebes, PhD, center left, professor of psychiatry (psychology), in the Child Study Center and of Public Health, and director of Elm City COMPASS, accepts the 2023 Mental Health Advocacy Award from John Krystal, MD, center right, chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, at the Yale-NAMI Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health on May 13 in The Anlyan Center auditorium on the Yale School of Medicine campus.
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Liz Taylor, interim executive director, of NAMI-Connecticut.
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John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and Psychology, and Chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry.
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Jacob Tebes, PhD, director of Elm City COMPASS, (at podium) addresses the crowd as John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and Psychology, and Chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, prepares to present a plaque to Elm City COMPASS which was this year's recipient of the Yale Department of Psychiatry Mental Health Advocacy Award.
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Joy Kaufman, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and deputy director of The Consultation Center, and Robert Forlano, consumer researcher, Connecticut Mental Health Center.
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Graziela Reis, MPH, project coordinator, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.
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Sylvia Cooper, lead group facilitator, IMANI Breakthrough Project.
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Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry.
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Philip Corlett, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry.