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.

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.

2020 Psychiatry Grand Rounds

November 20, 2020: Lecrae, hip hop recording artist, songwriter, music executive, actor, and entrepreneur: Music at Grand Rounds with Lecrae: A Discussion on the Intersection of Race, Culture, Faith and Mental Health
November 13, 2020: Craig Bryan, PsyD, Stress, Trauma and Resilience (STAR) Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Director, Division of Recovery and Resilience; Director, Suicide Prevention Program and Trauma Program, The Ohio State University College of Medicine: The Ebb and Flow of Suicide Risk: Implications for Treatment
November 6, 2020: Dean Mobbs, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology: Space, Time, and Fear: Survival Decisions Along Defensive Circuits
October 30, 2020: Sarah Yip, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: Connectome-based Prediction of Abstinence Across Drugs and Brain States
October 23, 2020: Jennifer Doran, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Eric Hermes, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; David Moore, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: Integration of Virtual Care Into an Academic Healthcare System
October 16, 2020: Tracy L. Bale, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine: Extracellular Vesicles as Stress Signals: Identifying Novel Systemic Mechanisms of Trauma Programming
October 9, 2020: Angela Garcia, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University: RebPsych Conference: "Rethinking Addiction Recovery: Lessons from the Underground, Adversity"
October 2, 2020: Elliot A. Stein, PhD, Chief, Neuroimaging Research Branch; Chief, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Addiction Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse: State, Trait and Subtype Considerations in SUD: A View From Nicotine Dependence
September 25, 2020: Lee Pachter, DO, Professor, Pediatric and Population Health, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University: Racism, Adversity, and Child Health
September 18, 2020: Rajita Sinha, PhD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine: Alcohol Adaptations in Stress Circuits: Impact on Motivation, Intake and Treatment Outcomes
July 31, 2020: Linda Mayes, MD, Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology; Chair, Yale Child Study Center; Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership, Office of the Dean, Yale School of Medicine: Neurobiology of Addiction and Parenting: Special Recognition of Nancy Suchman, PhD
July 29, 2020: Yin Paradies, PhD, MPH, MA, Professor and Chair, Race Relations; Deputy Director, Research, Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University, Australia: Understanding and Addressing Racism as a Fundamental Determinant of Health
June 12, 2020: Andrew Solomon, PhD, writer, lecturer, special advisor on LGBTQ mental health to the Yale Department of Psychiatry: With and Without the Virus: COVID and Mental Health
June 5, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 12 Slides
May 22, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 10 Slides
May 15, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 9 Slides
May 8, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 8 Slides
May 1, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 7 Slides
April 24, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 6 Slides
April 17, 2020: John H. Krystal, MD, Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds Town Hall 5 Slides
March 6, 2020: Hendrée Jones, PhD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Treating Substance Use Disorders Among Women: A Focus on the Pregnant and Parenting Years
February 28, 2020: Mark Komrad, MD, Instructor, Johns Hopkins University: Vulnerable Ethics: The Role of Psychiatrists in the U.S. Eugenics Movement and the Nazi Holocaust
February 21, 2020: Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System: Inaugural Aghajanian Lecture: The Shape of Discovery: Ketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression
February 14, 2020: LGBTQ Panel Discussion: Finding Love and Belonging
January 31, 2020: Darin Latimore, MD, Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer, Yale School of Medicine; Dowin Boatright, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine; Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, PharmD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Yale School of Medicine: Understanding Microaggressions in Health Professionals' Learning Environment
January 17, 2020: Simon B. Eickhoff, MD, PhD, Professor, Director, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf: Bridging Brain Mapping, Machine Learning, and Clinical Translation
January 10, 2020: Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs, Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Pharmacological Services, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director, Friedman Brain Institute: Inaugural Heninger Lecture: Transcriptional & Epigenetic Mechanisms of Addiction
January 3, 2020: Nancy Byatt, DO, MBA, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School: Improving Maternal Mental Health by Building the Capacity of Front-line Medical Providers