Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Research, Policy and Program on Male Development, The Consultation Center; Associate Professor on Term, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Neuroscience 2025 Conference
Program, Presenters, and Parking
Program
Saturday, March 22, 2025
- 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 Angelina Spicer
- 9:25 am: Presentation: “Perinatal Mental Health: An Opportunity:” Kieran O’Donnell, PhD, Assistant Professor Child Study Center & Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
- 10:00 am: Presentation: “Your Mental Health Impacts Her Too: Fathers and the Reciprocal Relationship to Moms’ Mental Health:” Derrick Gordon, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Director of Research for the Policy and Program on Male Development at The Consultation Center
- 10:35 am: Break
- 10:50 am: Presentation: “Utilizing Neuroscience to Investigate the Intersection of Maternal Mental Health and Caregiving:” Helena Rutherford, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center
- 11:25 am: Presentation: “Perinatal Psychosis: A Survivor-Leader Perspective:” Teresa Twomey, MFA, JD, Survivor-leader, Author, Advocate, Educator, Facilitator
- 12:00 pm: Closing Remarks
Presenters
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
- Teresa Twomey, JD, MFA
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