Neuroscience 2024 Conference
Program
Friday, April 19
- 5:30 PM, The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar St., New Haven: Showing of the documentary “CURED.” The screening is open to the public.
- 6:50 PM: roundtable discussion with Dr. Hartmann and the producer of CURED, moderated by Katherine Kennedy, MD
Saturday, April 20 – Detailed schedule subject to change
- 8:00 AM – doors open at The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar St., New Haven
- Coffee & light breakfast
- 8:30 AM
- Conference begins
- Welcome by Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD
- Remarks by John Krystal, MD
- Remarks by Liz Taylor, Executive Director, NAMI Connecticut o
- 9:00 AM
- Presentation of Advocacy Award to Dr. Lawrence Hartmann by Dr. Krystal
- Brief remarks from Dr. Hartmann
- 9:30 AM: Presentation by John Pachankas, PhD "LGBTQ-Affirmative Mental Health Care: From Theory to Trials to Community Implementation"
- 10:00 AM: Presentation by Nicolas Meade, PsyD "Advocacy as Clinical Practice: Supporting the Wellbeing of Transgender Youth in the Current Sociopolitical Context"
- 10:30 AM: Break
- 10:45 AM: Presentation by Maggie Davis, PhD "Understanding, Reducing, and Preventing Suicide Behavior in Trauma Survivors: Current Practice and Future Directions"
- 11:15 AM: Presentation by Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, "Psychedelic Treatment for Mental Illness: Recent Progress and Future Prospects"
- 11:45 AM: Breakout sessions with faculty on LGBTQ health, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety, and substance use.
Presenters
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
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic, Psychiatry; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry
Parking & Directions
The symposium is held in The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar St, New Haven. From parking lots, go up York St. toward Yale New Haven Hospital; turn left onto Cedar St; The Anlyan Center is one block on your right.
Directions to Air Rights Parking Garage (parking fee charged), accessible from N. & S. Frontage Rds.
- From I-95 N or S: Exit 47 to Rt 34 W to Exit 2
- From I-91 S: Exit 1 to Rt 34 to Exit 2