Grand Rounds
2024–2025 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*) |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 6, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| September 13, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | John M. Kane, MD, Co-Director, Institute of Behavioral Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research; Professor, Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell | The Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia: How Far Have We Come? (Introduction by Ted Lawlor) |
| September 20, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| September 27, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, Professor of Psychiatry In-Residence; Director, Late-Life Mood, Stress, and Wellness Research Program; Director, Integrative Psychiatry; Director, Post-COVID Clinic; Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | Brain Health as a Determinant of Late-Life Mental Health (Introduction by Breno Diniz) |
| October 4, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Veerle Bergink, MD, PhD, Director, Women's Mental Health Program; Professor, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Mental Health During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (Introduction by Karen Steinberg) - *Psychiatry Interest Group (PIG) Speaker |
| October 11, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| October 18, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Melvin McInnis, MD, Thomas B. and Nancy Upjohn Woodworth Professor of Bipolar Disorder and Depression; Director, Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan | Phenomenology and Common Data Models for Integrative and Comparative Global Mental Health Research (Introduction by Jayesh Kamath) - *Psychiatry Interest Group (PIG) Speaker |
| October 25, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| November 1, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Daniel C. Javitt, MD, Professor, Columbia University Irving Medical Center | Social Cognitive and Third Visual Pathway Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: From Assessment to Treatment (Introduction by Glenn Konopaske) |
| November 8, 2024 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Kathleen Keenan Bucholz, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; MPI, NIDA T32 Transdisciplinary Training in Addictions Research (TranSTAR); Washington University School of Medicine | What We Can Learn From Studying High Risk Families (Introduction by Victor Hesselbrock) |
| November 15, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| November 22, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Roneet Lev, MD, Director of Operations, Scripts Mercy Emergency Department, San Diego Campus, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego | It’s Just Pot, What’s the Big Deal (Introduction by Cathryn Holzhauer) |
| November 29, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| December 6, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | Pantea Farahmand, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Associate Program Director, Addiction Psychiatry program and Jordan Davis, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine | Role of Social Media in Adolescent Substance Use |
| December 13, 2024 | To Be Determined | To Be Determined | Development, Neurobiology, and Treatment of Anxiety and Related Disorders |
| December 20, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD | Alcoholism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| December 27, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| January 3, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| January 10, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy, Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center | The Effect of Suicide Loss on Clinicians and Organizations: Research and Response (Introduction by Jessica Meyer) |
| January 17, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | Mark Horowitz, MBBS, Ph.D., Clinical Research Fellow, National Health Service, UK; Visiting Lecturer, Kings College London | The Art and Science of Safely Stopping Psychiatric Medications |
| January 24, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| January 31, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | David F. Tolin, PhD, ABPP, Director, Anxiety Disorders Center, The Institute of Living; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, The Institute of Living | Missteps in Treating Trauma and PTSD (Introduction by Jessica Meyer) |
| February 7, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | Eric Lenze, MD, Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Healthy Mind Lab, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis | Geriatric Psychiatry (Introduction by Breno Diniz) |
| February 14, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| February 21, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| February 28, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| March 7, 2025 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Anette Søgaard Nielsen, Professor, Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark | Alcohol Treatment Needs in Older Adults |
| March 14, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| March 21, 2025 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Nevena Radonjić, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Interim Vice Chair for Education; Grand Rounds Director; Director of Upstate Mental Health REACH Initiative; Department of Psychiatry, Norton College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University | Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Forging the Path Forward - *Psychiatry Interest Group (PIG) Speaker (Introduction by Surita Rao) |
| March 28, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | Laura R. Stroud, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Warren Alpert Medical School and The Miriam Hospital Brown University | Fetal-Infant Transition and the Effects of Maternal Stress |
| April 4, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology | Working With Personality Issues and Trauma in Short-Term Settings |
| April 11, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| April 18, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| April 25, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| May 2, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| May 9, 2025 | Virtual (Webex) | Luis Medina, PhD, Associate Professor; Director, Collaborative on Aging Research and Multicultural Assessment (CARMA, Clinical Psychology, University of Houston | Neurons to Nations: A Path to Brain Health Equity |
| May 16, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| May 23, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| May 30, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| June 6, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| June 13, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| June 20, 2025 | To Be Determined | ||
| June 27, 2025 | To Be Determined |
*The presentation title will be available on the website approximately one week beforehand.