CMHC News Archive

In the latest Yale Child Study Center “On Leadership” blog post and newsletter column, Daryn David, PhD reflects on a recent YCSC Grand Rounds session she hosted with Nii Addy, PhD, who serves as the Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale.

Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center and of neuroscience, spoke to NBC News about the growing concern over online gambling among teenagers.

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, are co-authors of a commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine that proposes health care professionals and policy makers focus on developing targeted and tailored interventions to address e-cigarette use.

Esperanza Diaz, MD, professor of psychiatry, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Academic Psychiatry by the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry (ASHP).

Joao De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Ismene Petrakis, MD, professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively of a paper in The American Journal of Psychiatry that examines the overlooked link between alcohol use disorder and chronic pain.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and Yale Latino Recovery Colectivo have launched the third year of their Disability Lived Experience Action Network grant.

Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry; and Sina Nikayin, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are featured in the first episode of a four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression from the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) has launched the new National Institutes of Health-funded Recovery Finance Project. The project aims to address the financial well-being of justice-involved people, including those who have been incarcerated with mental health challenges. Organizers, including Annie Harper, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, launched the project April 30 at a press conference on the New Haven Green.

Ezra Griffith, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry, is featured in a new exhibit in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Foundation's Melvin Sabshin, M.D. Library & Archives honoring the contributions that Black psychiatrists have made to APA's history.