Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health; Associate Director of Educational Programs, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Neuroscience 2026 Conference
Program, Presenters, and Parking
Program
Saturday, May 9, 2026
- 8:00 AM – doors open at The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar St., New Haven
- Coffee & light breakfast
- 8:30 AM
- Conference begins
- Welcome by Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD
- Remarks by John Krystal, MD
- 8:50 am: Presentation of Mental Health Advocacy Award to Steven E. Hyman
Speakers
- Vinod Srihari, MD:
“Learning Health Systems for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders” - Kristen Brennand, PhD:
“Uncovering the Interplay Between Nature and Nurture in Psychiatric Disorders” - Scott Woods, MD:
“Toward the Prevention of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses: The Clinical High Risk Syndrome” - Chyrell Bellamy, PhD & Rev. Robyn Anderson:
“We’ve Come this Far by Faith/Choice: The Imani Breakthrough Faithbased Recovery Program”
12:00 Closing Remarks
Presenters
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Co-director, Science Fellows Program
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic, Psychiatry; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry; Director, STEP Program; Fellow, Davenport College
Parking & Directions
The symposium is held in The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar St, New Haven. From parking lots, go up York St. toward Yale New Haven Hospital; turn left onto Cedar St; The Anlyan Center is one block on your right.
Directions to Air Rights Parking Garage (parking fee charged), accessible from N. & S. Frontage Rds.
- From I-95 N or S: Exit 47 to Rt 34 W to Exit 2
- From I-91 S: Exit 1 to Rt 34 to Exit 2