Date Title Speaker Name Degree/ Rank Affiliation 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. and Betty Brudnick Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for of Psychotic Depression Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment; Director, UMass Depression Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School October 17, 2013 Why is it more difficult for women to quit Sherry McKee PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory smoking? Translating knowledge into practice October 03, 2013 Risk of Depression during the Wendy Marsh MD, MS Attending Psychiatrist, Ambulatory Psychiatry, UMass Memorial Medical Center Menopausal Transition: New Data on Reproductive Events during the Reproductive Years September 26, 2013 Modeling for Neural Circuitry Francine M. Benes MD, PhD Director, Program in Structural & Molecular Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, McLean Abnormalities in Schizophrenia Hospital September 19, 2013 What Healthcare Professionals Should Machelle Seibel MD Clinical Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, University Know About Menopause and of Massachusetts Medical School Perimenopause September 12, 2013 Psychosis in Youth & Comorbid Yael Dvir MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Co-Director, Psychiatry Student Clerkship, University of Conditions: Psychosis and Trauma, Massachusetts Medical School Psychosis and Autism September 05, 2013 Addressing Wellness & Recovery Through Douglas Ziedonis MD, MPH Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Mass Organizational Change Memorial Health Care June 20, 2013 More Than a Summary: The Child Behind Kathryn Harrison Honorary Massachusetts Dept. of Children and Families 16th Annual Deborah Janssens the Report Doctorate Memorial Lecture June 13, 2013 Challenges in the Delivery of Mental 1) Mary Wilber 1) DO 1) Chief Resident, Ambulatory Psychiatry 2) MD UMass Memorial, UMass Medical School Health Care to the Aging Population 2) Discussant: Gary Moak 2) Geriatric Psychiatry June 6, 2013 Teaching Psychodynamics in the 21st Deborah L. Cabaniss MD Director of Psychotherapy Training, Clinical 20th Annual Briscoli Lecture Professor of Psychiatry , Columbia University Century Department of Psychiatry Director, Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons May 30, 2013 What Do We Know About Empathy and 1) Sarah Masood 1) MD 1) Fellow, Addiction Psychiatry, UMass Memorial, 2) PhD UMass Medical School Addiction? 2) Monika Kolodziej 2) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UMass Medical School May 15, 2013 The Brain on Stress: Role of Bruce McEwen PhD Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Glucocorticoids in Protection and Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University Damage Via Novel Mechanisms May 02, 2013 Aspects of Linguistic Competence in Maricarmen Lopez MD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow Culturally Informed Child Psychiatric Practice April 18, 2013 Digital & Online Tools To Enhance Weight Mark Berman MD Lifestyle Medicine Physician, One Medical Group, Consultant, Health Information Technology & Management Behavior Change Obesity Medicine April 11, 2013 Food Addiction, Compulsive Overeating Mark Gold MD UF College of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Professor, Chairman, University of Florida and other Process Addictions such as Department of Psychiatry Gambling and Sex: Shared Causal Mechanisms? April 04, 2013 Is This Clinical Research or a Quality Leonard Doerfler PhD Professor of Psychology, Assumption College, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMass Improvement Project? Assessing the Medical School Outcome of Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents March 28, 2013 Tourette Syndrome: Then and Now Linda M. Isbell PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, Graduate Program Director, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst March 21, 2013 Update on Evidence Based Psychosocial Connie Kasari PhD UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center Interventions for Children with Autism Lecture Spectrum Disorders March 14, 2013 Manic Delirium and Molecular Mimicry Rachel Stein DO PGY 5- Child Fellow March 07, 2013 Developing a Futility Policy: The Ethics of Brian O'Sullivan MD Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Core for Bioethics, UMass Medical School Limitation of Care February 28, 2013 Recognition, Management and