2022-2023 Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Please see below for the 2022-2023 Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Psychiatry Grand Rounds Schedule:

Date Presenter Title
9/8/2022 Department Meeting 
9/15/2022 Amruta Nori-Sarma, PhD, MPH Extreme Weather Events (Extreme Heat): Effects on Mental Health
9/22/2022 Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD Culturally Informed Psychotherapy
10/6/2022 Amy Yule, MD, Sarah Valentine, PhD, Cara Fuchs, PhD, MPH and Lawrence Were, PhD Department of Psychiatry Research Blitz
10/13/2022 Jori Berger-Greenstein, PhD Moral Distress in the Hospital Setting: Observations of a Clinical Ethics Consult Team Member
10/20/2022 Bizu Gelaye, PhD, MPH Life Course Epidemiology of Trauma Exposure and Perinatal Mental Health: Findings from Peru
10/27/2022 Jerome Taylor, MD Pediatric Psychosis – What We Know and What is Next
11/3/2022 Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD Psychedelic-assisted Treatments for Substance Use Disorders: Current Evidence and Future Directions
11/10/2022 Maggi Price, PhD Structural Stigma May Undermine Treatment Efficacy: The Necessity of Structural Interventions
11/17/2022 Melissa Threadgill Advocating for Children’s Behavioral Health: The Office of the Child Advocate’s Efforts to Support Children in the Commonwealth
11/24/2022 THANKSGIVING 
12/1/2022 Jodie Kliman, PhD DEI Presentation – A Tool for Understanding our Intersectional Identities: The Social Matrix Diagram
12/8/2022 Manpreet Kaur Singh, MD, MS Reimagining the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Mood Disorders
12/15/2022 Faculty Development Session: Grace Huang, MD and Juhee McDougal, MD MedEdportal: “Making it Count Twice”
12/22/2022 HOLIDAY BREAK 
1/5/2023 Department Meeting 
1/12/2023 Carter J. Carter, PhD Psychoanalyzing Whiteness: Lessons for Clinicians and Institutions
1/19/2023 Cara Fuchs, PhD & Sarah Kirshenbaum, LICSW Advancing health equity through collaboration and innovation in Integrated Behavioral Health
1/26/2023 Amanda Bravo, MA, R-DMT The Art of Mental Health
2/2/2023 Linda Sprague-Martinez, PhD Advancing community engagement and participatory research approaches in the context of structural racism
2/9/2023 Thalia Bragg, PhD Hide-and-Seek: Learning to Identify the Invisibility Caused by Racial Bias in Neuropsychological Testing of Black-Identified Patients
2/16/2023 Sarah Y. Vinson, MD Social Injustice and Mental Health Objectives
2/23/2023 Arielle Sheftail, PhD Early vulnerabilities associated with preteen suicidal behavior
3/2/2023 Kathleen Chard, PhD Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Treat PTSD in Diverse Patient Presentations
3/9/2023 Ana Maria Rivas-Grajales, MD Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Principles and Clinical Applications in Psychiatry
3/16/2023 Matthew Louis Goldman, MD, MS, FAPA Expanding the Evidence Base for the Crisis Care Continuum: Call Centers, Mobile Teams, Stabilization Units and Follow-Up
3/23/2023 Shani Dowd, LHD(hc) Understanding Power in Organizations
*in person only
3/30/2023 John Torous, MD, MBI Digital Mental Health Beyond Telehealth: Balancing Access and Quality
4/6/2023 Jessica Ashley Gold, MD What about Us? The Impact of Caring for Ourselves, While Caring for Others
4/13/2023 Parsa Bastani, MBA, PhD Humanism and Global Health: Leveraging Anthropology during an Acute Kidney Injury Outbreak in The Gambia
4/20/2023 Sandra Mattar, PsyD Intergenerational Trauma in Families and Communities
4/27/2023 Marilyn Augustyn MD, FAAP Autism Spectrum Disorder: Where have we gone in the decade since DSM 5?
5/4/2023 Kimberly M. Hook, PhD, MA Investing in Partnerships to Advance the Global Mental Health Agenda and Address Humanitarian Crises
5/11/2023 Yuka Gordon, Sandi Whitey-Sarles, Anne Whitman, and Howard Trachtman The Role of Peers in Behavioral Health Recovery
5/18/2023 Jess Kabrt, DO, German Velez, MD, BreeOna Namukowa, MD and Temitope Ogundare, MD, MPH Case Formulation Series: Quality Improvement Project
5/25/2023 Edom Seyoum, MD, Charlie Ventriglia, MD and Haley Euting, MD Implementation of Daily Huddles and Coordinated Sign-Out Documentation on a Neuromodulation Service to Improve Patient care and Resident Learning/Engagement
6/1/2023 Chizelle Onochie, MD Improving Appointment Attendance through myHealtheVet: A Quality Improvement Initiative
6/8/2023 William H. Orme, PhD Working with Difficult-to-Treat Patients: The Value of Applying Insights from Common Factors Research
6/15/2023 Kimberly Yonkers, MD How to Care for Perinatal Individuals with Psychiatric Illness
6/22/2023 Meghan McGrath, LICSW Gender: The Binary, Sociopolitical Context, and Affirmative Care in 2023
*in person only
6/29/2023 Department Meeting