Date Title Speaker Name Degree/ Rank Affiliation December 18, 2014 Use of Antidepressants in Bipolar Alison Trexler MD Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Health Care Depression: Evidence, Guidelines, and Research December 04, 2014 New treatment approaches for Dost Öngür MD, PhD Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Chief, Psychotic Disorders Division, Schizophrenia and Bipolar schizophrenia Disorder Program, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School November 20, 2014 "Undumping Granny": Reducing Zachary Hatch MD Program Chief Resident, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Health Care Preventable Hospital Transfers of Home- Care Residents November 13, 2014 Ethics in Mental Health Research: Lessons James M DuBois DSc, PhD Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, Director of the Center for Clinical Learned from 25 Years of Empirical Research Ethics, Washington University at St. Louis Research November 06, 2014 Searching for Early Risk Signs of Autism Helen Tager-Flusberg PhD Director, Lab of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Intellectual and Developmental Spectrum Disorder in the First Year of Life Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) Grand Rounds, Boston University October 30, 2014 Sadness and the Cell: Mechanisms of Owen M. Wolkowitz MD Professor in Residence, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Accelerated Aging in Major Depression October 23, 2014 DSM-5- Why “Peripartum” Depression is Jennifer Payne MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Women's Mood Disorders Clinic, Johns Hopkins a Scientific Mistake School of Medicine October 16, 2014 Using applied and basic science research Michelle Newman PhD Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Editor Behavior Therapy, Director of the Laboratory for to inform improvements in Anxiety and Depression Research, Department of psychotherapy for generalized anxiety Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University disorder October 09, 2014 Stress pathways to obesity: Can Elissa Epel PhD Associate Professor in Residence, University of California, San Francisco mindfulness help? October 02, 2014 Suicide and Suicide Prevention in Older Yeates Conwell MD Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center Adults September 18, 2014 The Science of Recovery: New Wine in Lisa Dixon MD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Center for Practice Innovations, NY State Psychiatric Insitute Old Bottles September 11, 2014 Trauma and Neurodevelopment: The Kerry Wilkins MD University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Health Care Effect of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors on Biological Sensitivity to Context September 04, 2014 Mindful Leadership Douglas Ziedonis MD, MPH Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Health Care Center June 26, 2014 Suicide, Risk, Clinical Practice and Law Susan Stefan JD June 19, 2014 Acute Psychotic and Non Psychotic Johanna Burke MD PGY-4 Adult Psychiatry Resident, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare Depressive Episodes in Bipolar Disorder Type I: A Pilot Inpatient Chart Review Study of Pharmacologic Treatments Rendered June 12, 2014 Neurobiology of Child Abuse Charles B. Nemeroff MD, PhD Leonard M. Miller Professor & Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director, Center on Aging, University of Miami Health System June 05, 2014 Does psychosis increase the risk of Isheeta Zalpuri MD PGY-4 Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology, Program Chief Resident, UMass Medical School, suicide in major depression? UMass Memorial Healthcare 5/29/2014 Strengthening the Organization's Healing 1) Brian Denietolis 1) PsyD 1) Assistant Professor, Clinical Director, UMass Adolescent Continuing Care Unit, Department of 17th Annual Deborah Janssens Potential: Utilizing Evidence-based 2) Boris Lorberg 2) MD Memorial Lecture Psychiatry Assessment Strategies to Effect Lasting 2) Associate Medical Director and Staff Child and Behavioral Change and Recovery Adolescent Psychiatrist, Worcester Recovery Center May 22, 2014 Medical Management of Inpatient Srikanth Challagundla MBBS PGY-5 Addiction Fellow, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare Benzodiazepine Withdrawal May 08, 2014 From Freud to Fraternities: Mirjana Jojic MD PGY-4 Chief Resident in Psychosomatic Medicine, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Developmental Psychopathology in Healthcare Emerging Adulthood April 24, 2014 Undertaking a Quality Improvement James Yon MD PGY-5 Child Fellow, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare Initiative: Impact on Clinical Practice, System Dynamics, Advocacy, and Innovation April 17, 2014 Postgraduate Psychotherapy Training: Priyanthy Weerasekera MD, MEd Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, 21st Annual Briscoli Lecture Postgraduate Psychotherapy Coordinator What to Teach, How to Teach, and How McMaster University to Assess April 10, 2014 Bipolar Disorder: From Neurobiology to Jair C. Soares MD Professor and Chairman, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Treatment Interventions Center at Houston April 03, 2014 Bereavement and the DSM-5: Challenges, Sidney Zisook MD Director, University of California, San Diego Residency Training Program, Professor of Controversies and Resolutions Psychiatry, UCSD March 27, 2014 Culture and DSM-5 Roberto Lewis-Fernandez MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University; Director, New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence; Director, Hispanic Treatment Program, New York State Psychiatric Institute March 20, 2014 Alcohol, Habit Formation and the Role of David M. Lovinger PhD Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health the Dorsal Striatum March 13, 2014 Psychiatric Advance Directives and Eric Huttenbach MD, JD PGY-4 Chief Resident in Forensic Psychiatry, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare Capacity to Consent to Treatment March 06, 2014 Families at Risk: Treating Depressed Holly M. Swartz MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Mothers of School Age Children February 27, 2014 Psychiatry and Health Care Reform Paul Summergrad MD Professor and Chairman, Tufts University School of Medicine, Psychiatrist-in-Chief February 20, 2014 Long-tern Treatment of Schizophenia: Ira D. Glick MD Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus Clinical Recommendations Based on the Data February 13, 2014 Canceled due to weather Scheduled was Kerry Wilkins MD PGY-5 Child Fellow, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare February 06, 2014 Inflammation and Schizophrenia Xiaoduo Fan MD, PhD, MS Director, Psychotic Disorders Clinical & Research Program, UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMass Medical School January 30, 2014 Medical Marijuana: A Half-Baked Ankur Butala MD PGY-6 Neuropsychiatry Resident, UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare Cautionary Tale? January 23, 2014 Advances in the Neurobiology of Henry Nasrallah MD The Sydney W. Souers Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, St. Louis Schizophrenia University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri January 16, 2014 Current Models for Understanding and Donald Goff MD Marvin Stern Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, New York Treating Delusions University Langone Medical Center; Director, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research January 09, 2014 Being With the Patient: The Use of Gordon Harper MD Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Services, MA Department of Mental Health; Associate “Clinical Evidence,” Reconsidered Professor, Harvard Medical School December 19, 2013 Why Do People Hurt Themselves? Recent Matthew Nock PhD Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research, Department Advances in the Understanding of Suicide of Psychology, Harvard University and Self-Injury December 12, 2013 Medical and Psychiatric Ethics in the Michael A. Grodin MD Director, Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Professor of Shadow of the Holocaust: The Nazi Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Professor of Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder and Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Boston University Genocide Schools of Medicine and Public Health December 05, 2013 Clinical Update on First-Episode and Early Oliver Freudenreich MD, FAPM Medical Director, Mass General Hospital Schizophrenia Program Psychosis November 21, 2013 Psychotic Depression – Before, During, Soren Dinesen Ostergaard MD Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital, Unit for Psychiatric Research, and After Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark November 14, 2013 The MHISSION Care Management System Thomas Simpatico MD Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Division of Public Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of – Enhancing Public Safety Using a Public Medicine Health Model November 07, 2013 What does wellness have to do with it? Barbara Grimes-Smith MPH Program Director, UMass Psychiatry Wellness Initiative, UMass Medical School Supporting our patients in their mental health recovery October 31, 2013 Behavioral Health Integration Efforts Kathy Sanders MD Deputy Commissioner of Clinical & Professional Services/State Medical Director, MA Department of Afoot in MA and It's Call to Public Mental Health Psychiatrists October 24, 2013 Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment Anthony J. Rothschild MD Irving S.