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2021 Psychiatry Grand Rounds

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: December 17, 2021

    "The Epidemiology of Cannabis Use/Disorder in the United States"

    Deborah Hasin, PhD, Professor, Columbia University

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: November 19, 2021

    "One Size Does Not Fit All: Transitioning to a Community Engaged Approach in Cultural Adaptation."

    A. Kathleen Burlew, PhD, Professor, University of Cincinnati.

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: November 12, 2021

    "Crisis, Opportunity, and Building Back With Resiliency"

    Mehul Dalal, MD, MSc, MHS, Community Services Administration, City of New Haven

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: November 5, 2021

    Poynter Fellowship: "The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain"

    Annie Murphy Paul, MS, Author, Science Writer

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 29, 2021

    "Clinical Advances in the Assessment of Malingering"

    Richard Rogers, MD, Visiting Professor, University of North Texas

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 22, 2021

    "Race in U.S. Cultural and Social Life"

    Matthew Jacobson, PhD, Sterling Professor of American Studies & History; Professor of African American Studies, Yale University

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 15, 2021

    Flynn Lecture: "Dynamic Reward Signaling in Ventral Pallidum"

    Patricia Janak, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: October 1, 2021

    "Refugee Mental Health: An Overview"

    Aniyizhai Annamalai, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Adult Refugee Clinic

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 24, 2021

    Aghajanian Lecture: "New Insights Into Psychedelic Drug Actions"

    Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Department of Pharmacology; Research Professor, University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 17, 2021

    "Department of Psychiatry Anti-Racism Task Force Community Update"

    John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. NcNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience; Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry

    Cindy Crusto, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Yale Department of Psychiatry

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: September 10, 2021

    "The Stage Model of Behavioral Intervention Development for Addictions: Special Recognition for Kathleen Carroll, PhD"

    Lisa Onken, PhD, Director, Behavior Change & Intervention Program, Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health

    Steve Martino, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Chief of Psychology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: June 25, 2021

    Toksoz Byram Karasu, MD, Academic Leadership Lecture: "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values Driven Leadership"

    Mary C. Gentile, PhD, Creator/Director, Giving Voice to Values Professor of Practice, University of Virginia-Darden School of Business

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: June 18, 2021

    Yale Psychiatry Residency Program Commencement: "Bending the Arc: The Path to Social Justice in Mental Health"

    Ruth Shim, MD, MPH, Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Associate Dean of Diverse and Inclusive Education, University of California, Davis School of Medicine

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: June 11, 2021

    John P. Flynn, PhD Lecture: "Neural Circuits of Motivational Valance Processing"

    Kay M. Tye, PhD, Wylie Vale Professor, Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: June 4, 2021

    "State of the Department"

    John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience; Chair, Yale Department of Psychiatry

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: May 28, 2021

    2021 Seymour L. Lustman, MD, PhD, Resident Research Awards

    Co-First Place Awards

    Emily Olfson, MD, PhD: "Whole-Exome Sequencing in Childhood Anxiety Disorders Identifies Rare De Novo Damaging Coding Variants"

    Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD: "Psychological and Biological Resilience Modulates the Effects of Stress on Epigenetic Aging"

    Honorable Mention

    Albert Higgins-Chen, MD, PhD: "A Computational Solution for Bolstering Reliability of Epigenetic Clocks: Implications for Clinical Trials and Longitudinal Tracking"
    Peter Na, MD, MPH: "Prevalence, Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in U.S. Military Veterans With Pre-Existing Psychiatric Conditions"
    Ryan O'Dell, MD, PhD: "Association of Aβ Deposition and Regional Synaptic Density in Early Alzheimer's Disease: A PET Imaging Study with [11C]UCB-J"

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: May 21, 2021

    Inaugural Toksoz Byram Karasu Lectureship in Psychosocial Studies: "A Matter of Death and Life: A Conversation With Dr. Irvin Yalom"

    Irvin D. Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: May 14, 2021

    "Contemporary Issues in the Regulation of Tobacco Products"

    Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: May 7, 2021

    "Augmenting, Dismantling, Disseminating: Clinical Discoveries in Pediatric Anxiety Experimental Psychotherapeutics"

    Wendy K. Silverman, PhD, Alfred A. Messer Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: April 30, 2021

    "Addressing the Nation's Behavioral Health Pandemic: The Need for a Population Health Perspective"

    Arthur Evans, Jr., PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, American Psychological Association

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: April 16, 2021

    "Our Role in the Development of Mental Health Services in Corrections"

    Raymond F. Patterson, MD, DLFAPA, Faculty, St. Elizabeths Hospital Department of Behavioral Health, Washington, DC

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: April 9, 2021

    "Socioeconomic Adversity and Deaths of Despair"

    Mark Olfson, MD, MPH, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law; Professor of Epidemiology, CUMC, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: March 26, 2021

    "Stepping Into the Light to Work Together"

    Iva GreyWolf, PhD, Psychologist, Society of Indian Psychologists

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: March 19, 2021

    "Multiscale Imaging: Revealing Links Between Neuronal Networks, Behavior, and Disease"

    Michael Higley, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: March 12, 2021

    "Crossing the Quality Chasm in Psychiatry: Quality Improvement Projects Across Multiple Health Systems."

    Michael Sernyak, Jr., MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs and Program Development, Yale Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; CEO, Connecticut Mental Health Center

    Luming Li, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Associate Medical Director of Quality Improvement, Yale Psychiatric Hospital; Medical Director of Clinical Operations, Yale New Haven Health

    Eric D. A. Hermes, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Healthcare System

    John Cahill, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Medical Director, STEP Clinic and Acute Services Division, CMHC Chief of Behavioral Health, Continuum of Car, Inc.

    Tobias Wasser, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Associate Program Director, Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, Adult Psychiatry

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds - March 5, 2021

    "A Novel Computational Framework for the Role of Dopamine in Learning and Memory"

    Erin S. Calipari, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: February 26, 2021

    "The Office of Academic Professionalism and Development: Fostering a Shared Vision of Professionalism at the Yale School of Medicine"

    Linda Mayes, MD, Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center; Chair, Yale Child Study Center; and Andrea Terrillion, JD, Director, Professionalism and Leadership Development, Yale School of Medicine Office of Academic Professionalism and Development

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 15, 2021

    "Clinical Applications of Psychiatric Genetics: Improving Patient Outcomes Through Psychiatric Genetic Counseling"

    Jehannine Austin, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: February 19, 2021

    "Estrogens and Memory: Translating Basic Research into Therapies for Memory Dysfunction and Menopause"

    Karyn M. Frick, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Neuroendocrinology of Memory Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: February 12, 2021

    "The Meyerhoff Scholars Program: A Successful and Replicable Program for Enhancing Diversity in STEM"

    Michael Summers, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland BC

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: February 5, 2021

    "Comfortably Numb: Research on the Etiology and Treatment of Comorbid PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorders"

    Debra Kaysen, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Public Mental Health & Population Sciences), Stanford University Medical Center

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 29, 2021

    "Trauma and Women's Health: Within and Across Generations"

    Karestan Koenen, PhD, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 22, 2021

    "Dean's Address: State of the Medical School"

    Nancy J. Brown, MD, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine; C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 15, 2021

    "Clinical Applications of Psychiatric Genetics: Improving Patient Outcomes Through Psychiatric Genetic Counseling"

    Jehannine Austin, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia

  • Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: January 8, 2021

    "My Year Abroad: Ironton, Ohio and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis"

    Sally Satel, MD, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine