Psychiatry Grand Rounds
The Psychiatry Department's Grand Rounds are typically held on Friday mornings, between September and June, in the auditorium of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. To see the details of upcoming Grand Rounds and other department events, please visit the department's web calendar.
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A lunch is often hosted after Grand Rounds by outside Yale speakers. Psychiatry Department trainees and junior faculty who may be interested in attending should email tricia.dahl@yale.edu.
2019-2020 Grand Rounds Schedule
September 6, 2019: Renato Polimanti, Yale
September 13, 2019: George Dragoi, Yale
September 20, 2019: Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Yale
September 27, 2019: Flavio Frohlich, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
October 4, 2019: Aristotle Voineskos, CAMH
October 11, 2019: Lisa Barrett, Northeastern University
October 18, 2019: No Grand Rounds
October 25, 2019: Eve Ensler, Playwright, performer, activist
November 1, 2019: Maysa Akbar, Yale
November 8, 2019: Cenk Tek, Yale
November 15, 2019: Gary Belkin, Billion Minds Institute/Harvard
November 22, 2019: Department Town Hall/Ada Gregory, Duke
November 29, 2019: No Grand Rounds
December 6, 2019: Joan Cook, Yale
December 13, 2019: Carolyn Roberts, Yale
December 20, 2019: No Grand Rounds
December 27, 2019: No Grand Rounds
January 3, 2020: Nancy Byatt, UMass Medical School
January 10, 2020: Eric Nestler (Heninger Lecture), Mt. Sinai
January 17, 2020: Simon Eickhoff, University of Dusseldorf
January 24, 2020: Justin Baker, McLean Institute for Technology
January 31, 2020: Darin Latimore, Dowin Boatright, Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, Yale
February 7, 2020: Shekhar Saxena, Harvard
February 14, 2020: LGBTQ Panel
February 21, 2020: Dennis Charney (Aghajanian Lecture), Mt. Sinai
February 28, 2020: Mark Komrad, Johns Hopkins
March 6, 2020: TBA
March 13, 2020: Dean Mobbs, Cal Tech
March 20, 2020: Sally Satel, Yale
March 27, 2020: Raymond Patterson (Yochelson Lecture)
April 3, 2020: Angela Garcia (RebPsych Conference)
April 10, 2020: No Grand Rounds
April 17, 2020: Mark Olfson, Columbia
April 24, 2020: No Grand Rounds
May 1, 2020: Karyn Frick, University of Wisconsin
May 8, 2020: Erin Calipari, Vanderbilt
May 15, 2020: Debra Kaysen, Stanford
May 22, 2020: Wendy Silverman, Yale
May 29, 2020: Lustman Awards
June 5, 2020: John Krystal, Yale, State of the Department Address
June 12 or June 19, 2020: Commencement
Archive of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Below is an archive of past Grand Rounds. Links will take you to a video of a presentation. The Department will continue to add talks as they are digitized.
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2009
- 2008
- Festschrifts
- Resident Grand Rounds
2019 Psychiatry Grand Rounds
- November 15, 2019: Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Visiting Scientist, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Founder, Billion Minds Institute: Bridging Community and Civic Action and Public Health Aims and Evidence
- November 8, 2019: Cenk Tek, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Psychosis Program, Connecticut Mental Health Center: A Simple Guide to Counteracting Antipsychotic Induced Weight Gain
- November 1, 2019: Sherry McKee, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory; Clinical Director, Forensic Drug Diversion Clinic; Director, Yale Program for Sex Differences in Alcohol Use Disorder, Psychiatry: Utilizing Wearable Biosensors to Develop JUST-IN-TIME Interventions for Addiction
- October 25, 2019: Eve Ensler, Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist; author of "The Vagina Monologues:" Women: From Surviving to Thriving
- October 11, 2019: Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University College of Science: The Power of Predictions: An Emerging Paradigm for Studying Brain, Body, and Mind
- September 27, 2019: Flavio Frohlich, PhD, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Brain Network Oscillations as a Therapeutic Target: Identification, Engagement, and Validation
- September 20, 2019: Arielle Baskin-Sommers, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: Understanding Disinhibition: From Diagnosis to Mechanism to Treatment
- September 13, 2019: George Dragoi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine: Neuronal Ensembles Underlying Internally-Generated Representations
- September 6, 2019: Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: Big Data in Psychiatric Genetics: Consortia, Biobanks, and Citizen Science
- June 14, 2019: Altha J. Stewart, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Immediate Past President, American Psychiatric Association: Commencement
- June 7, 2019: John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Neuroscience; Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: State of the Department
- May 31, 2019: Jennifer Buenzle Dwyer, MD, PhD; Alfred Kaye, MD, PhD; Kunmi Sobowale, MD: The Lustman Awards
- May 10, 2019: Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics; Director, Center for Psychiatric Genomics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Ribicoff Lecture: Psychiatric Genomic Findings: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
- May 3, 2019: Dina Birman, PhD, Professor of Educational and Psychological Studies; Director, Community Well-Being PhD Program, University of Miami School of Education & Human Development: Alternate Selves: Adjustment and Acculturation Among Adolescent Immigrants and Refugees
- April 26, 2019: John Bradford, MD, Forensic Psychiatrist, Forensic Psychiatry Program, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton: Yochelson Lecture: Coming Out of the Darkness - PTSD and Occupational Hazard for Mental Health Professionals
- April 12, 2019: Drew Westen, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Emory University: Dr. Sidney J. Blatt Lecture: Thinking Clinically About Political Discourse: Neural Networks, Narratives, and Emotions
- March 29, 2019: John Torous, MD, MBI, Director, Digital Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Digital Psychiatry: Reconciling Early Evidence, Ethics, and Evaluation
- March 22, 2019: Tor Wager, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder: fMRI-Based Biomarkers for Pain and Emotion: From Models to Interventions
- March 15, 2019: Deepak Cyril D'Souza, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: Blunting Cannabis Use Disorder by Targeting the Endocannabinoid System!
- March 8, 2019: Myrna Weissman, PhD, Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University: Thirty Years of Studying Depression in Families: Lessons Learned Along the Way
- February 22, 2019: Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, PhD, MPH, Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine: Social Determinants of Health and Equity
- February 15, 2019: Linda L. Carpenter, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Butler Hospital; Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University: Insights and Inspiration from the First Decade of TMS Therapy in Psychiatry
- February 8, 2019: BJ Casey, PhD, Professor and Director, Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain (FAB) Lab, Yale University: Emergence of the Adult Brain: Insights from Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
- February 1, 2019: Robert Alpern, MD, Ensign Professor of Medicine (Nephrology); Dean, Yale School of Medicine: State of the Medical School
- January 25, 2019: Nolan Williams, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University: Interventionalism in Psychiatry: What Can We Learn From Cardiology, Neurology, and Radiology?
- January 18, 2019: Sarah H. Lisanby, MD, Director, Division of Translational Research, National Institute of Mental Health: Brain Stimulation Research
- January 11, 2019: Joy Hirsch, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, of Comparative Medicine and of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine: The New Neuroscience of Two Neural Dynamics of Communicating Brains: Hyperscanning with fNIRS
- January 4, 2019: Alex Kwan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine: Probing Dendritic Dysfunction in Mice: Insights for Ketamine and Schizophrenia