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 | Long-Term Resistance to Developing Substance Use Disorders: Evidence From a High-Risk Family Study of Alcohol Use Disorders (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 | Integrating Dual Diagnosis Services into an Outpatient Child Psychiatric Clinic (Introduction by Surita Rao) |
| December 13, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| December 20, 2024 | Virtual (Webex) | John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research, Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychology, and Chair of Psychiatry for Yale University; Chief of Psychiatry for the Yale-New Haven Health System; and Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the National Center for PTSD (VA) | Ketamine and the Neurobiology of Depression (Introduction by Dave Steffens) |
| December 27, 2024 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| January 3, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| 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, PhD, Clinical Research Fellow, National Health Service, UK; Visiting Lecturer, Kings College London | The Art and Science of Safely Stopping Psychiatric Medications (Introduction by Jessica Kluewer-D’Amico) |
| January 24, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| 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 | Managing Clinical Complexity in 2025: Treating Geriatric Depression (Introduction by Breno Diniz) |
| February 14, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| February 21, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| February 28, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| 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 (Introduction by Sarah Feldstein Ewing) |
| March 14, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| 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 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| April 4, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| April 11, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| April 18, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| April 25, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| May 2, 2025 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Linda S. Durst, MD, Professor, Psychiatry, UConn Health | The Many Dimensions of Suicide Prevention: A Primer on Zero Suicide (Introduction by Glenn Konopaske) |
| 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 (Introduction by Kristina Zdanys) |
| May 16, 2025 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Neha Jain, MD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UConn Health | Telepsychiatry: Current Status and Future Directions (Introduction by Kristina Zdanys) |
| May 23, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| May 30, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| June 6, 2025 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Arielle S. Keller, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Sciences; Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, UConn, Storrs | A Personalized Neuroscience Approach for Understanding Attention and Mental Health In Youth |
| June 13, 2025 | No Grand Rounds | ||
| June 20, 2025 | In-Person; Low Learning Center | Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing, PhD, Professor, Psychiatry, UConn Health | Adolescent Substance Use Disorders (Introduction by Dave Steffens) |
| June 27, 2025 | No Grand Rounds |
*The presentation title will be available on the website approximately one week beforehand.