Psychiatry Grand Rounds

November 15, 2024

Heninger Lecture: "Translational Strategies for Understanding Neural Circuitry Dysfunction in Schizophrenia"

David Lewis, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Thomas Detre Professor of Academic Psychiatry, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

November 8, 2024

Ribicoff Lecture: "Bidirectional Brain-Body Circuits in Stress and Depression"

Scott Russo, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience and the Brain Body Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

November 1, 2024

"From Anxiety to Addiction: New Tools That Leverage Old Brain Technology to Change Habits"

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, Director of Research and Innovation, Mindfulness Center; Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Public Health

October 18, 2024

"Schizophrenia Therapeutics: Past, Present, and Future"

John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

October 11, 2024

"Giving Feedback"

John Encandela, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry; Executive Director of Evaluation and Assessment, Center for Medical Education, Yale School of Medicine

September 13, 2024

"Translational Neurogenetics of Fear-Related Disorders: Seeking Novel Interventions for PTSD"

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital

June 21, 2024

Commencement Grand Rounds: "The Healer's Journey: Living the Oath with Integrity"

Lisa Harding, MD, Assistant Clinical

June 14, 2024

Lustman Awards

• First Place: Robin Bonomi, MD, PhD: "Evidence of HDAC6 Suppression in PTSD"
• Honorable Mention: Yang Jae Lee, MD: "Differences in Mental Illness Stigma by Disorder and Gender: Population-Based Vignette Randomized Experiment in Rural Uganda"
• Honorable Mention: Sarah Abdallah, MD: "Characterizing Rare DNA Copy-Number Variants in Pediatric-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder"

June 7, 2024

"Asian Americans & Racial Trauma: Does Race Matter?"

Alvin Alvarez, PhD, Professor, Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University

May 31, 2024

"What Does Climate Change Have to do with Mental Health?"

Speaker: Lise Van Susteren, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral, George Washington University

May 17, 2024

Ribicoff Lecture. "Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors"

Speaker: Lucina Uddin, PhD, UCLA Brain Research Institute

May 10, 2024

Flynn Lecture: "Infant Neurobehavioral Processing of the Parent and Trauma"

Regina Sullivan, PhD,

May 3, 2024

Women's Mental Health Conference: "The Power of Boundaries: A Conversation with Nedra Tawwab"

Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, author, therapist, relationship expert and founder and owner of Kaleidoscope Counseling

April 26, 2024

"Chair's State of the Department Address"

John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

April 5, 2024

"Elm City COMPASS: A Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Response"

Speaker: Jacob Tebes, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Elm City COMPASS

March 22, 2024

Aghajanian Lecture: "Serotonin and Sociability" Speaker: Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Director, Nancy Pritzker Laboratory; Deputy Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University

March 8, 2024

"Integration of Addiction Treatment in Mental Health Care"

Srinivas B. Muvvala, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

March 1, 2024

"Engaging Partners and Building Networks for Implementation in Health and Human Service Systems"

Alicia C. Bunger, PhD, MSW, Professor, College of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University

February 23, 2024

"From History to Headlines: Trans Rights and Resistance in the Modern Rainbow Scare"

Speaker: Erin Reed, Independent Journalist

February 16 (Virtual): Karasu Leadership Lecture

"My Journey as an AHC Psychologist: Leadership Lessons Learned"

Speaker: Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine

February 9, 2024

"Harnessing Translational Approaches to Fight the Transgenerational Transmission of Stress"

Tamar Gur, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

February 2, 2024

Karasu PsychoSocial Lecture "Transforming Mental Health Care via Science-Based Digital Therapeutics" Speaker: Lisa Marsch, PhD, Founding Director, Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health

January 26, 2024

"Recent Progress in Interventional Psychiatry"

Speaker: Samuel Wilkinson, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director, Yale Depression Research Program

January 19, 2024

"Multiple Steps to the Precipice: Risk Aversion and Worry in Sequential Decision-Making"

Peter Dayan, FRS, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

January 12, 2024

"Dean's Address: State of the Medical School"

Nancy J. Brown, MD, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine; C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine

January 5, 2024

"Cannabis and Mental Health"

Speaker: Sir Robin Murray, Sir Robin Murray, Professor of Psychiatric Research, King's College London