2023-2024 Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Please see below for the 2023-2024 Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Psychiatry Grand Rounds Schedule:

Date Presenter Title
9/7/2023 Department Meeting 
9/14/2023 Deborah Canabiss, MD Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach
9/21/2023 Emily Kline, PhD The School of Hard Talks: How Family Caregivers Can Use Motivational Interviewing for Better Conversations with Loved Ones
9/28/2023 DEI Committee Experiential Museum
10/5/2023 Patricia Elliott, DrPH Juvenile Justice and Mental Health, Policy WTC
10/12/2023 Jacques Ambrose, MD AI Primer
10/19/2023 Zheala Qayyum, MD Supervising trainess/staff after suicide
10/26/2023 Nokulunga Shabalala, PhD The experience of Black medical specialists in training at two universities in the Western Cape, South Africa
11/2/2023 Rachel Conrad, JD 13 going on 30: Autonomy and Adolescents
11/9/2023 Christopher Ivany, MD Understanding Behavioral Health System Successes and Failures
11/23/2023 THANKSGIVING 
12/7/2023 Oscar Gary Bukstein, MD, MPH Pharmacotherapy of Severe Mood Dysregulation
12/14/2023 Maria C. Prom, MD Reciprocal learning and innovation: Translating mental health practices in global settings to local practice
12/21/2023 WINTER BREAK 
1/4/2024 Department Meeting 
1/18/2024 DEI Committee: Linda Piwowarczyk, MD & David Trimble, PhD Spirituality in Healthcare: Creating Sacred Spaces
*in person only
1/25/2024 Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, MD, MSHPM An Ongoing Crisis: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Families Experiencing Homelessness
2/1/2024 Kate Zona, PhD & Will Schleyer, MD Group Therapy for the Treatment of PTSD in Primary Care
2/8/2024 Deborah Nathan, PhD, LMHC, ATR From Conflict to Curiosity: Relational Resilience in the Midst of Conflict
*in person only
2/15/2024 Melissa T Nass, MD & Rosha Forman, CNM Curbside Care: Addressing Maternal and Infant Health Inequities at the Curb
2/22/2024 Diane Shader Smith, Maryanne O’Hara and David Weill, MD Three Perspectives, One Purpose: The power of storytelling to improve health outcomes
2/29/2024 Abigail Batchelder, PhD, MPH Moving toward behavioral health equity for underserved people
3/7/2024 Maithri Ameresekere, MD, MSc, PMH-C, Joelle Taos Taknint, PhD, MSc & Resham Gellatly, PhD Addressing Perinatal Mental Health in Birthing Migrants: Barriers, Facilitators, and a Model of Care
3/21/2024 Sandi Hammond, BA Music Therapy: Looking Back, Moving Forward
3/28/2024 Jessica Graham-LoPresti, PhD Racial Trauma: Context for Providers
4/11/2024 Christian Thurstone, MD Getting too high: Teens, Cannabis, and Psychosis
4/18/2024 Resident QI: Antony Gonzales, MD, Katherine Crist, MD, Kushani Patel, DO & Courtney Kaiser, MD Is the patient safe? A quality improvement project aimed at psychiatric transfers
4/25/2024 Matthew Edwards, MD The Freedom House Ambulance Service: Historical Origins of Emergency Medical Services & Implications for Mental Health Crisis Response
5/9/2024 Bonga Chiliza An adaptation of BREATHE (a brief psychological intervention) for people with trauma and serious mental illness in Southern Africa
5/16/2024 Lukoye Atwoli, MBS, MBChB, MMed Psych, PhD, IFAPA Overview of the Mental Health landscape in Kenya
5/23/2024 Nina Aledort, PhD, MSW Love is a 4-letter Word: Using positive youth development to improve outcomes and wellbeing with children and youth
5/30/2024 Victor O Cruz, MD, MS Childhood Adversity and Psychosis: Findings from the Peruvian National Survey of  Mental Health (PNSMH)
6/6/2024 DEI Voices from the Department of Psychiatry DEI Committee Humanitarian Crises around the World: When Things Touch Home: Honoring Ourselves and Others by Speaking Out or Staying Silent
6/13/2024 Benjamin Harris, MD, DPM Development of Liberia’s Mental Health Policy and Commencement of Postgraduate Residency Training in Psychiatry
6/20/2024 Department Meeting
6/27/2024 Laila Asmal, PhD, MSc The Urban African Neighborhood and Psychosis