Grand Rounds
2023–2024 Schedule
Fridays from 11 a.m. to noon. In-person presentations will be held at UConn Health (Upper Campus). Information subject to change.
Date | Location | Speaker | Topic (Subject to Change*) |
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September 1, 2023 | Closed Session | Challenging Cases Review | |
September 8, 2023 | Closed Session | Challenging Cases Review | |
September 15, 2023 | Closed Session | Challenging Cases Review | |
September 22, 2023 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | John B. Torous, M.D., MBI, Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Digital Mental Health (Introduction by Jayesh Kamath) - Psychiatry Interest Group (PIG) Speaker |
September 29, 2023 | Virtual (Webex) | Elizabeth Raposa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Fordham University | Community-Oriented Approaches to Mental Health Problems in Youth (Introduction by Cassandra Holinka) |
October 6, 2023 | Virtual (Webex) | Carmen G. Black, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Social Justice and Health Equity (SJHE) Education, Adult Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine | An Evidence-Based Counternarrative to the Healthcare Policing (Introduction by Rocio Chang-Angulo) |
October 13, 2023 | Virtual (Webex) | Chadrick Lane, M.D., Assistant Professor; Associate Psychiatry Clerkship Director; O'Donnell Clinical Neuroscience Scholar, UT Southwestern Medical Center | Functional Nonepileptic Seizures: Charcot, Circuits, and the Clinic (Introduction by Mario Fahed) |
October 20, 2023 | Closed Session | Challenging Cases Review | |
October 27, 2023 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Natalie M. Zahr, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine | Translational Neuroimaging of Alcohol Exposure and Concomitants (Introduction by Lance Bauer) |
November 3, 2023 | Virtual (Webex) | Christopher Conway, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Fordham University | Stability and Change in Borderline Personality Disorder (Introduction by Jessica Meyer) |
November 10, 2023 | No Grand Rounds | ||
November 17, 2023 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Aaron Sardell, Psy.D., Department of Psychiatry, UConn Health | Applications of Mindfulness, Clinical and Personal (Introduction by Cassandra Holinka) |
November 24, 2023 | No Grand Rounds | ||
December 1, 2023 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Jeffrey H. Samet, M.D., M.A., MPH, John Noble Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science; Vice Chair of Public Health, Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and Professor of Public Health, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center | An International Research Story – Addressing HIV and Substance Use (Introduction by Victor Hesselbrock) |
December 8, 2023 | Closed Session | Challenging Cases Review | |
December 15, 2023 | Virtual (Webex) | Stephen P. Salloway, M.D., M.S., Martin M. Zucker Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director of Neurology, Butler Hospital | Biomarker and Drug Development for the Prevention and Early Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease (Introduction by Kevin Manning) |
December 22, 2023 | No Grand Rounds | ||
December 29, 2023 | No Grand Rounds | ||
January 5, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Holly G. Prigerson, Ph.D., Irving Sherwood Wright Professor in Geriatrics; Professor of Sociology in Medicine, Co-Director, Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, Weill Cornell Medicine | Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD): Diagnosis, Risks, Resources and Interventions (Introduction by Lisa Barry) |
January 12, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Jordan Sloshower, M.D., M.Sc., Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine | Psilocybin-assisted Therapy for Major Depression: Trial Results and Psychological Mechanisms - Psychiatry Interest Group (PIG) Speaker (Introduction by Jayesh Kamath) |
January 19, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Amy Barnhorst, M.D., Director, BulletPoints Project, California Firearm Violence Research Center; Vice Chair for Clinical Services, Department of Psychiatry; Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis | Firearm Violence and Suicide: What Every Psychiatrist Should Know (Introduction by David Steffens) |
January 26, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
February 2, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Mark Niciu, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine | Es/Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression (Introduction by Andrew Winokur) |
February 9, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Alison M. Goate, D.Phil., Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics, Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding Disease Mechanism (Introduction by Victor Hesselbrock) |
February 16, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
February 23, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Natalie Gukasyan, M.D., Assistant Professor, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | Beyond the Breakthrough: A Review of the Evidence for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Introduction by Jayesh Kamath) |
March 1, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
March 8, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Brian T. Anderson, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco | Psychedelic Therapies in End of Life and Palliative Care (Introduction by Andrew Winokur) |
March 15, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Adam J. Sagot, D.O., FAPA, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Virtua-Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine | Advocacy in Psychiatry (Introduction by Debra Forrest) |
March 22, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Mary Dozier, Ph.D., Unidel Amy Elizabeth du Pont Chair, Francis Alison Professor; Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware | Early Parenting Intervention to Enhance Behavioral and Biological Outcomes of Young Children: The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Approach (Introduction by Damion Grasso) |
March 29, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
April 5, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
April 12, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Tammy Chung, Ph.D., Director, Center for Population Behavioral Health, Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Digital/Mobile Assessment and Intervention for Substance Use (Introduction by Mark Litt) |
April 19, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Anthony C. Ruocco, Ph.D., C.Psych., Professor, Graduate Chair and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada | Neurocognition and Brain Imaging in Borderline Personality Disorder (Introduction by Kevin Manning) |
April 26, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Benjamin M. Hampstead, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, Stanley Berent, Ph.D., Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan; Mental Health Service of VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan | Neuromodulation for Cognitive Impairment Across the Aging-Dementia Continuum (Introduction by Kevin Manning) |
May 3, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
May 10, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Carla Kmett Danielson, Ph.D., Professor; Director, EMPOWERR/Family Tree Program; Director of Postdoctoral Training; National Crime Victims Research & Treatment Center (Primary Division); Addiction Sciences (Affiliated Faculty); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Medical University of South Carolina | Treatment of Co-Occurring Traumatic Stress and Substance Use Problems Among Adolescents: State of the Science and Future Directions |
May 17, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
May 24, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
May 31, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | David P. FitzGerald, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, UConn Health | Origins, Assembly, and Outcomes of the Child and Family Development Program |
June 7, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
June 14, 2024 | To Be Determined | Jennifer R. Gatchel, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital | Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Mild Behavioral Impairment |
June 21, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
June 28, 2024 | No Grand Rounds |
*The presentation title will be available on the website approximately one week beforehand.