Grand Rounds Schedule – 2019-2020 | Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health

Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

9/10/19	Ramin Parsey, MD, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	State of the Department/Celebration
9/17/19	John Kane, MD Senior Vice President, Behavioral Health Services Chair, Department of Psychiatry Donald and Barbara Zucker Professor of Psychiatry Zucker Hillside Hospital/Hofstra Northwell	The Treatment of Schizophrenia: How Far Have We Come?
9/24/19	Irina Esterlis, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Yale University	Where Does Glutamate Fit in the Neurobiology of PTSD? Lessons from Animal Models, Human Imaging Studies and Clinical Trials
10/1/19	Gabrielle Carlson, MD Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics Stony Brook University President, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry	Emotion dysregulation in children - coming together to treat the sickest kids.
10/8/19	Robert Laitman, MD Bronx Westchester Medical Group Mental Health Awareness Week Guest Speaker	Meaningful Recovery from Schizophrenia and Serious Mental Illness with the Optimal Use of Clozapine
10/15/19	Charles L. Robbins, DSW Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Undergraduate Colleges Rachelle Germana, PhD Assistant Dean and Director of Undergraduate Colleges Stony Brook University	The Culture of Toxic Masculinities: Impacts on the Academy, Graduation Rates, and the Global Workplace
10/22/19	Sara Weisenbach, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Stony Brook University	Using Neuroscience to Inform Novel Treatment Targets for Late Life Depression
10/29/19	Rajita Sinha, PhD Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Yale University	Stress Pathophysiology in Addiction: Neurobiological Mechanisms and Treatment Implications
11/5/19	Karen D. Wagner, MD, PhD Titus H. Harris Chair & Harry K. Davis Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston	Treatment of Depression in Youth
11/12/19	Anthony Komaroff, MD Steven P. Simcox, Patrick A. Clifford and James H. Higby Distinguished Professor of Medicine Harvard University	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Biology of Psychology
11/19/19	Anna Van Meter, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell	Beyond SnapChat and Instagram: Leveraging Technology to Improve Diagnosis and Outcomes for Young People with Mood Disorders.
11/26/19	Peter Davies, PhD Director, Litwin-Zucker Center for Alzheimer’s Disease & Memory Disorders Professor, Pathology and Neuroscience Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell	TBD
12/3/19	Deepak D'Souza, MBBS, MD Professor of Psychiatry Yale University	Gone to Pot? The Complex Relationships between Cannabinoids and Psychosis
12/10/19	Fred Friedberg, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Why Patients Improve and Why They Get Worse
12/17/19	Jeffrey Burke, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology University of Connecticut	ODD Doesn’t Disappear at 18: Symptom Dimensions, Impairments and Comorbidities of ODD among Young Adults
12/24/19	Holiday break
12/31/19	Holiday break
1/7/20	Nikhil Palekar, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Medical Director, Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease Stony Brook University	Advances in Biomarkers and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
1/14/20	Roscoe O. Brady, Jr. MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Harvard University	Seeing the Trees for the Forest: What Can Neuroimaging Tell Us About Individuals?
1/21/20	Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD, PhD Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	The Failure of Psychopharmacology Trials: Placebo Response Mechanisms
1/28/20	Carla Mazefsky, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology University of Pittsburgh	Assessment and Treatment of Emotion Dysregulation Across the Autism Spectrum
2/4/20	Sean Clouston, PhD Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine & Public Health Stony Brook University	Cognitive Impairment at Mid-life in World Trade Center Responders
2/11/20	David Steffens, MD Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry University of Connecticut School of Medicine	Linking Late-life Depression, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia
2/18/20	Asif Karim, MD Chief Resident Dhruti Patel, MD Resident Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	TBD
2/25/20	Deirdre Eschler, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Stony Brook University	PANDAS: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep Infections
3/3/20	Maura Boldrini, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurobiology in Psychiatry Columbia University	Human Adult Neurogenesis in Health and Disease
3/10/20	Daniel N. Klein, PhD Distinguished Professor of Psychology Stony Brook University	Temperamental and Electrophysiological Risk for Emotional Disorders: Selected Findings from Two Prospective Studies of Youth
3/17/20	Mark Olfson, MD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University Medical Center	Clinical Opportunities for Suicide Prevention
3/24/20	Cathy Spatz Widom, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Psychology John Jay College and the Graduate Center City University of New York	TBD
3/31/20	Katherine Jonas, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	Genetic Markers of Illness Course in Schizophrenia
4/7/20	Jill Ludin, MD Chief Resident Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	TBD
4/14/20	Maya Prabhu, MD, LLB Associate Professor of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine	Refugee Mental Health - Working with Communities in Crisis
4/21/20	Constantine Lyketsos, MD, MHS Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor for Alzheimer’s Research Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center Johns Hopkins University	Aging Really Matters: New Directions in Understanding Late Life Neuropsychiatric Disorders
4/28/20	APA week
5/5/20	Brian Bronson, MD and colleagues Consultation Liaison Service Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	TBD
5/11/20	Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D. McNeil Family Professor Department of Health Care Policy Harvard University Medical School	Precision Treatment of Mental Disorders: Where We Are, Where We Want to Go, and How to Get There
5/19/20	Monika Waszczuk, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	Polygenic Prediction of PTSD Trajectories and Inflammation in 9/11 Responders
5/26/20	Steve Atkins, MD Chief Resident Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	TBD
6/2/20	Outpatient Department Residents Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Stony Brook University	TBD
6/9/20	Juried department presentations