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 for outside Yale speakers. Psychiatry Department trainees and junior faculty who may be interested in attending should email tricia.dahl@yale.edu.
2023 Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "The Metabotropic Glutamatergic Receptor 5: What is its Role in Psychiatry?"
"The Metabotropic Glutamatergic Receptor 5: What is its Role in Psychiatry?"
Irina Esterlis, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: November 10, 2023
"Yale Center for Clinical Investigation: An Update"
Speaker: David Coleman, MD, Interim Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Emeritus Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy: Sparks from the Pipeline
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: November 3, 2023
Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy: Sparks from the Pipeline
Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Obesity Research Center
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 27, 2023
"Brain Circuit Mapping and Modulation to Optimize Brain Stimulation Therapies in Psychiatry"
Speaker: Desmond Oathes, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 20, 2023
George Heninger, MD Annual Lecture: "Translational Neuroscience in Reproductive Psychiatry: Lessons Learned from George Heninger, MD"
Speaker: Neill Epperson, MD, Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz Medical Campus
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 13, 2023
"The Getting Racism Out of Our Work (GROW) Initiative"
Speaker: Amber W. Childs, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 6, 2023
"Citizenship and Community Inclusion: Why it Matters and What We've Learned From Around the World"
Speakers: Michael Rowe, PhD; Gillian MacMillan; Annie Harper, PhD; Francisco Orosa; Fiona Wong; Billy Bromage, MSW; Bridgett Williamson; Jean-Francois Pelletier, PhD; Erika Carr, PhD; Allison Ponce, PhD
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 29, 2023
Innovations in Research for Treatments of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders: The Next Decade in Combined Pharmacotherapy and Behavioral Approaches
Speaker: Denise Hien, PhD, Distinguished Professor; Helen E. Chaney Endowed Chair in Alcohol Studies; Vice Provost of Research; Director, Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 22, 2023
"Ensuring That Historically Excluded Researchers Thrive in Academic Medicine: The UCSF ARCHES Program"
Christina Mangurian, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 15, 2023
"Pursuing Fundamental Fairness; APA's Response to Structural Bias in Psychiatry"
Speaker: Cheryl Wills, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 8, 2023
Global Mental Health and Health Equity
Speakers: Sirikanya Chiraroekmongkon, MD; Yang Jae Lee, MD; Marcos Moreno, MD; and Matthew Basilico, MD, PhD
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Commencement
Jay Brown, Senior Vice President, Programs, Research & Training, Human Rights Campaign
"A State of Emergency for LGBTQ+ People."
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: June 9, 2023
State of the Department
John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry; Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Yale Psychiatry Anti-Racism Task Force Update"
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
Cindy Crusto, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Dean for Gender Equity, Yale School of Medicine
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Lustman Awards"
Lustman Awards with speakers AZA Stephen Allsop, MD, PhD; Sarah Jefferson, MD, PhD; and Yang Jae Lee, MD
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Circuits, Neurotransmitters, and Electrophysiological Events Through Which Sleep Could Reset Emotions and Maladaptive Sleep Could Intensify Them"
Speaker: Gina Poe, PhD, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA
Tbr1 Function in Cell Fate and Synaptogenesis
Aghajanian Lecture: Tbr1 Function in Cell Fate and Synaptogenesis
John Rubenstein, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
Finding Gender Joy: A Conversation with Dominique Jackson
The Women's Mental Health Conference at Yale presents our keynote session with Dominique Jackson, moderated by Dr. Christy Olezeski.
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: March 3, 2023
The Imani Breakthrough Project: A Cultural and Faith-Based Harm Reduction Recovery Initiative for Black and Latinx Communities in Response to Our Opioid Crisis
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: February 17, 2023
Lecanemab: The First Disease-Modifying Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
“'We Won. We are Still Here:' Black Resistance and Dignified Self-Determination in Africatown, Alabama”
Poynter Fellowship in Journalism: "'We Won. We are Still Here:' Black Resistance and Dignified Self-Determination in Africatown, Alabama"
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: February 3, 2023
Bringing the Bioecological Model to Adolescent Suicide Prevention: Innovation and the Intersection of Science and Practice
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 13, 2023
"Optimizing Telehealth for Addiction Care: COVID-19 and Beyond"
Lewei Allison Lin, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 27, 2023
Karasu Psychosocial Lecture: "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice"
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, PhD, Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Director of Community-Based Education, Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute, Boston University
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 6, 2023
Nicholas Dawidoff, author
"The Other Side of Prospect: On Telling a Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City."