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.
To receive announcements of Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds email christopher.gardner@yale.edu.
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.
2024 Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Well-Being and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Contemplative Neuroscience"
December 20, 2024
"Well-Being and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Contemplative Neuroscience"
Richard Davidson, PhD, William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "SAMHSA's Work Advancing the Nation's Behavioral Health: Federal Policies, Strategies, Services, and Supports"
December 13, 2024
"SAMHSA's Work Advancing the Nation's Behavioral Health: Federal Policies, Strategies, Services, and Supports"
Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon, PhD, Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and Associate Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Leveraging Experience Sampling to Advance Health and Wellbeing Among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence."
December 6, 2024
"Leveraging Experience Sampling to Advance Health and Wellbeing Among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence."
Tami Sullivan, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Heninger Lecture: "Translational Strategies for Understanding Neural Circuitry Dysfunction in Schizophrenia"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Bidirectional Brain-Body Circuits in Stress and Depression"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "From Anxiety to Addiction: New Tools That Leverage Old Brain Technology to Change Habits"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Schizophrenia Therapeutics: Past, Present, and Future"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: ""Translational Neurogenetics of Fear-Related Disorders: Seeking Novel Interventions for PTSD"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "The Healer's Journey: Living the Oath with Integrity"
June 21, 2024
Commencement Grand Rounds: "The Healer's Journey: Living the Oath with Integrity"
Lisa Harding, MD, Assistant Clinical
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Lustman Awards 2024
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"
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Asian Americans & Racial Trauma: Does Race Matter?"
June 7, 2024
"Asian Americans & Racial Trauma: Does Race Matter?"
Alvin Alvarez, PhD, Professor, Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "What Does Climate Change Have to do with Mental Health?"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors"
May 17, 2024
Ribicoff Lecture. "Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors"
Speaker: Lucina Uddin, PhD, UCLA Brain Research Institute
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Infant Neurobehavioral Processing of the Parent and Trauma"
May 10, 2024
Flynn Lecture: "Infant Neurobehavioral Processing of the Parent and Trauma"
Regina Sullivan, PhD,
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "The Power of Boundaries: A Conversation with Nedra Tawwab
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Chair's State of the Department Address"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Elm City COMPASS: A Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Response"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Serotonin and Sociability"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Integration of Addiction Treatment in Mental Health Care"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Engaging Partners and Building Networks for Implementation in Health and Human Service Systems"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "From History to Headlines: Trans Rights and Resistance in the Modern Rainbow Scare"
February 23, 2024
"From History to Headlines: Trans Rights and Resistance in the Modern Rainbow Scare"
Speaker: Erin Reed, Independent Journalist
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "My Journey as an AHC Psychologist: Leadership Lessons Learned"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Harnessing Translational Approaches to Fight the Transgenerational Transmission of Stress"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Transforming Mental Health Care via Science-Based Digital Therapeutics"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Recent Progress in Interventional Psychiatry"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Multiple Steps to the Precipice: Risk Aversion and Worry in Sequential Decision-Making"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Dean's Address: State of the Medical School"
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
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Cannabis and Mental Health"
January 5, 2024
"Cannabis and Mental Health"
Speaker: Sir Robin Murray, Sir Robin Murray, Professor of Psychiatric Research, King's College London