Grand Rounds

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Leslie Hulvershorn, MD was named Chair of the Department of Psychiatry in June 2022. She earned her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed an academic track residency in General Psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and a two-year research track Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at New York University.

Dr. Hulvershorn is an active researcher and clinician and has authored numerous publications on various topics in child psychiatry. She has received multiple grants to study the neurobiological basis of emotion regulation and addiction risk in children with externalizing disorders. In addition to being a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, she has also been boarded in Addiction Medicine, since 2012. Read more.

Location: MIDB Room 1-204

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Guillermo Horga, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Horga's research mainly focuses on neurobiological and computational mechanisms of psychosis, sensory and reward-based learning and decision-making. Read more. 

Location: Wilf Conference Room 1 & 2

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Kewchang Lee, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Site Director for Psychiatry Medical Student Education at SFVAMC, Director of the UCSF Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship Program and Director of the Psychiatry Consultation Unit at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Lee's area of expertise is clinical reasoning - medical education. In his fellowship director role, he is responsible for all didactic and clinical educational activities for the fellow, and chairs the fellowship program’s Clinical Competency and Program Evaluation Committees. As VA Site Director, he organizes and oversees all educational activities for students rotating through psychiatry clerkships, longitudinal experiences, and electives at the SFVA. Dr. Lee’s teaching includes clinical supervision and didactic teaching of psychosomatic medicine and geriatric psychiatry fellows, psychiatry residents, internal medicine residents, and medical students. He has co-led a Behavioral Medicine Seminar for medicine residents in the SFVA Program in Residency Investigation Methods and Epidemiology (PRIME) since 1996, and received the Calvin L. Chou PRIME Teaching Award from the residents in 2008.Read more. 

Location: Wilf Auditorium 

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Scott Aaronson, MD, Chief Science Officer, Institite for Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics; Psychiatrist, The Retreat at Sheppard Pratt is a thought leader in the areas of biological psychiatry, diagnosis, and the integration of somatic and psychological therapies. He is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and is a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Aaronson also serves on the boards of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and the Clinical TMS Society. Read more. 

Location: Wilf Conference Room 1 & 2

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Rick Hoyle, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. His research concerns the means by which adolescents and emerging adults manage pursuit of their goals through self-regulation. They take a broad view of self-regulation, accounting for the separate and interactive influences of personality, environment (e.g., home, school, neighborhood), cognition and emotion, and social influences on the many facets of goal management. Read more. 

Location: MIDB (1-510 Annex)

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Tobias Wasser, MD, is Chair of Psychiatry for the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University. attended college at Wesleyan University, medical school at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry training at the Yale School of Medicine, including serving as chief resident and completing fellowships in forensic and public psychiatry. After completing his training, he joined the Yale psychiatry department as faculty. During his time at Yale he held academic leadership roles in the public psychiatry and residency training programs and clinical leadership roles in the state forensic mental health system, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Wasser is a clinician-educator whose scholarship focuses on novel educational pedagogies and research in forensic and administrative psychiatry. He has been recognized as a regional and national leader in forensic psychiatry and medical education, has held multiple leadership roles for various national organizations, and has received multiple awards both locally and nationally in the areas of medical education, mentorship, and psychiatric ethics. Read more. 

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This Grand Rounds will be presented by 3 fellows on topics in Child Psychiatry Research.

The presenters will be:
Masoud Salehi, MD
Christian Morfaw, MD
Amanda Stadem, DO

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MDTA/Psychiatry Joint Grand Rounds

Conor Liston, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College. His laboratory operates at the exciting interface between systems neuroscience and biological psychiatry.  Their mission is to define the circuit mechanisms by which neurons in the prefrontal cortex contribute to cognitive and emotional processes and to understand how they are disrupted in neuropsychiatric disease states. Read more.

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August 7, 2024 - Alexander "Sandy" Simpson, MBChB, BMedSci, FRANZCP
Talk Title: The Evolution and Implementation of Culturally Competent Care in Forensic Psychiatry in Canada
YouTube: https://youtu.be/WLBv-UpvxWc?si=SBFv8UFHvqM1n-wA

September 4, 2024 - Velma McBride Murry, PhD
Talk Title: Advancing Behavioral Health Equity through Strength-Based, Culturally Tailored Family-Centered Programs

October 2, 2024 - Richard Martinez, MD
Talk Title: Assessing Professional Misconduct: The Shame of Bad Decisions

November 6, 2024 - Mark George, MD
Talk Title: The Amazing (ongoing) revolution in brain stimulation methods as treatments and tools of discovery

December 4, 2024 - Michael Bronstein, Katie Cullen, and Karina Quevedo
Talk Title: Quick Science Talks from 3 faculty members

February 5, 2025 - Corinde E. Wiers, PhD
Talk Title: Altered brain energetics in alcohol use disorder – potential for keto-therapeutics

March 5, 2025 - Carolyn Black Becker, PhD, ABPP
Talk Title: The eating disorder stereotype led us astray: Low resource ≠ low risk

March 12, 2025 - Paul Casella, MFA
Talk Title: Speaking for Success: Strategies for Effective Medical and Scientific Presentations

April 2, 2025 - Roger D. Weiss, MD
Talk Title: Integrating Behavioral Therapy with Pharmacotherapy in Treating Patients with Substance Use Disorders
YouTube: https://youtu.be/YM74h-MIkCc?si=bz5nsxJZPOmzwtBW

April 30 - Andrea Maxwell, PhD (MSTP Student)
Talk Title: Sex/gender differences in the integrated role of neurobiological, psychological, and social factors on alcohol misuse
YouTube: https://youtu.be/5Xgk_lHq8Rw?si=ZCv7cNpxaTQXowRd

May 7, 2025 - Jennifer Freeman, PhD
Talk Title: Integrating Science with Care: The Development of a Partner Driven Team Based Model of CBT for Youth Anxiety
YouTube: https://youtu.be/PIoCSPTzw3I?si=IhcFi_099NqH3q_o

June 4, 2025 - Andrew Furman, MD
Talk Title: Humanities Revisited: Exploring the Human in Psychiatric Education
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FYIeNOkhI6o?si=cpwHsgEZsr7_g2ed

September 6, 2023 - Helena Hanson, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Beyond Magic Bullets: Racial Capitalism as Social Determinant of the Opioid Crisis.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/LGL_EaMRM9A?si=TBZtAx5FpY-pm6fF

October 4, 2023 - Richard D. Lane, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Levels of Emotional Awareness: Integration of the somatic and conceptual components of emotion for research and clinical application.

November 1, 2023 - James Densley, Ph.D.
Talk Title: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic.

December 6, 2023 - Jonathan Poquiz, PhD LP
Talk Title: The Role of Behavioral Health in Gender Affirming Care  

February 7, 2024 - Katie Steingraeber, Katie Cullen, Katie Lingras, and Amanda Schlesinger amongst others from pediatrics, family medicine, and nursing.
Talk Title: Addressing Mental Health in Primary Care: A Collaborative, Interprofessional Model
YouTube: https://youtu.be/0higPgfgj0o?si=CMOsAVYzQT7czmXg

March 6, 2024 - Vasiliki Michopoulos, PhD, MSc
Talk Title: Translational Research Understanding the Contribution of Stress and Trauma to Health Inequities

April 3, 2024 - Guido Frank, MD
Talk Title: Transdiagnostic and Translational Models to Explain Brain Function and Behaviors in Eating Disorders.

May 1, 2024 - Y. Joel Wong, PhD
Talk Title: Microaffirmations: Shifting from Preventing Harm to Promoting Mattering

June 5, 2024: Christine Conelea, Lisa Anderson, and Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
Talk Title: Quick Science research mini talks from 3 department faculty
YouTube: https://youtu.be/QVZAAg5QXNY?si=3q05dHliYyPdLz7j

August 3, 2022 - Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Novel Interventions for OCD

September 7, 2022 - Philip Saragoza, MD
Talk Title: Fundamentals of Threat Assessment for Mental Health Clinicians

October 5, 2022 - Susan Hatters-Friedman, MD
Talk Title: Infanticide, Mental Health, and Prevention Considerations

November 2, 2022 - Kathleen Vohs, PhD
Talk Title: Hidden Costs of Making Decision

December 7, 2022 - Robert (Bob) Krueger, PhD
Talk Title: Current Directions in Classification and Conceptualization of Personality Disorders
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_7e-ozZYs4o?si=mw6kyjPwvpTbLZPq

February 1, 2023 - Mark A. Frye MD
Talk Title: Collaborations Fostering Precision Medicine & Population Health Care Delivery in Depression

March 1, 2023 - Jane Gagliardi, MD, MHS, FACP, DFAPA
Talk Title: Racial inequities in physical and chemical restraint use in emergency psychiatry

March 29, 2023 - Hamed Ekhtiari, MD, PhD (PGY-2)
Talk Title: Addiction Treatment with Brain Stimulation: Hopes and Challenges

April 5, 2023 - Brandon Staglin, M.S.
Talk Title: The Only Source of Knowledge: Embracing Diverse Lived Experiences for Psychiatric Research Success
YouTube: https://youtu.be/8uaFp1ntWEM?si=XKOs9pGYUVT3bXBt

May 3, 2023 - Sherry Chan, MD
Talk Title: Suicide mortality and self-harm prediction patients with first-episode schizophrenia-
spectrum disorders
YouTube: https://youtu.be/58Kl6_r_rKg?si=fMFmPgg9mdDDAjl6

May 17, 2023 - Brian Trieu, PhD (MSTP Student)
Talk Title: Preclinical Investigation of ACE Inhibitors as Modulators of Opioid Activity in Striatal Circuits

June 7, 2023 - Roberto Lopez Cervera, PhD (MSTP Student)
Talk Title: Distributed Encoding of Full-Body Behavior in the Primate Brain

August 4, 2021 - Dr. Aditya N. Sharma, MBBS, MD, MRCPsych, PhD
Talk Title: COPEwithCOVID project: an international study assessing the psychological impact of and coping mechanisms utilized by adults.

September 1, 2021 - Noah Philip, MD
Talk Title: The Future is Now: treating PTSD with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation.

October 6, 2021 - Michael Milham, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Multimodal Characterization of Heterogeneity in Brain Function and Behavior For Developmental, Clinical and Translational Neuroscience

November 3, 2021 - Richard Davidson, PhD
Talk Title: Well-being is a skill
YouTube: https://youtu.be/oxxX7V8ien0?si=658Z8BO-77ZYAd5X

December 6, 2021 - Wendy Dean, MD
Talk Title: Moral Injury and Choosing Change 

February 2, 2022 - Abigail Gewirtz, PhD
Talk Title: Intervening to support parenting among stressed families: Data from a series of RCTs

March 2, 2022 - Sarah W. Yip, PhD, MSc
Talk Title: Brain-based prediction of addiction outcomes

April 6, 2022 - Bonnie J. Kaplan, PhD
Talk Title: Are we treating mental disorders or suboptimal nutrition?

May 4, 2022 - Boris Birmaher, MD
Talk Title: Risk of Developing and Having Recurrent Manic and Depressive Episodes