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Psychiatry Grand Rounds

UMass Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds take place each Thursday of the month from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, and are located in the Lazare Auditorium (1st floor - Medical School Building, S1-607, near the library) unless otherwise indicated. Rounds are attended by faculty, residents, and professional staff, and are also open to the public. For additional information or if you are interested in being a speaker, please contact Dr. Anthony Rothschild, Grand Rounds Committee Chair, or Karen Lambert, Grand Rounds Coordinator, at 508-856-5928, or via email: Karen.Lambert@umassmed.edu

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Archived Video Links 2019-2020

September 2020

	THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 "UMASS Psychiatry at the Crossroads: Looking Back, Looking Forward" Speaker: Sheldon Benjamin, MD Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry Director of Neuropsychiatry Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology UMass Medical School https://echo360.org/media/782823f3-2266-4bab-b279-61809a1d3c38/public

	THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 *"Leveraging Community Engagement to Design Deaf-Accessible Evidence-Based Therapies"* Speaker: Melissa L. Anderson PhD MSCI Psychologist and Clinical Researcher, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director, DeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center, iSPARC https://echo360.org/media/45bb9ad6-f0ab-437e-8363-868bce708847/public

	THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 "Use of Palliative Care Music Therapy for Hospitalized Patients and Staff During the COVID Surge" Speakers: Jennifer Reidy, MD, MS, FAAHPM; Mary-Carla MacDonald Chief, Division of Palliative Care UMass Memorial Medical Center https://echo360.org/media/39cb5dce-2479-4de8-a1e1-43f8cd805ed8/public

October 2020

	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020 VISITING PROFESSOR SERIES "Stress, Emotion, and Eating Disorders: Recent Research and Treatment *Implications"* Speaker: Kristin Nicole Javaras D.Phil., Ph.D Assistant Psychologist, Center of Excellence in Women’s Mental Health, McLean Hospital Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School https://echo360.org/media/91f91928-8290-49eb-9113-d99627d6eba3/public

	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 *"From Both Sides of the Table: Lessons Learned as the Parent of a Child with Intellectual Disability and Mental Illness"* Speaker: Teresa M. Kohlenberg, M.D Assistant Professor in Psychiatry UMMS, Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hallowell Center; Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation (PMSF), Pediatric consultant to community service programs and private practice https://echo360.org/media/fad1920e-f06d-4340-939c-e0711aee5337/public

	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020 VISITING PROFESSOR SERIES "COVID and the Impact on Youth with Complex Mental Health Needs" Speaker: Justine Larson, MD Medical Director of School and Residential Treatment Shepard Pratt https://echo360.org/media/b6a5c702-4e7e-4550-9b10-91699e96a678/public
	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 *"Psychosocial Considerations in Diabetes Care."* Speaker: Kristin Macgregor PhD Assistant Professor, UMMS/UMassMemorial Clinical Psychology; Health Psychology https://echo360.org/media/2dfac271-10fd-4a11-9e66-55d07c40cdc6/public

	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020 *VISITING PROFESSOR SERIES* "Meeting the Mental Health Needs of LGBTQ+ Youth" Speaker: Christopher Bellonci MD Vice President of Policy and Practice, Chief Medical Office, Judge Baker Children's Center https://echo360.org/media/bbb8f7cb-1fa0-403f-b2fa-b9d2af1a3124/public

November 2020

	THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020 *"The Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy"* Speaker: Judith Beck, PhD President of the Beck Institute Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry Beck Institute/University of Pennsylvania This lecture was not recorded.

	THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2020 "Neuroplasticity" Speaker: Lucia Willadino Braga PhD Professor of Psychiatry,UMASS Medical School President, SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, Member, SARAH Board of Governors Founder, Neuroscience Research Centers in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. https://echo360.org/media/cd2a908f-db92-427f-9306-e1bb9e7aecd9/public

	THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2020 "Centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in 2020: Cultural Humility and Anti-Racism in Psychiatry" Speaker: Nhi-Ha T Trinh MD Director, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Dept of Psychiatry Center for Diversity, Director of Multicultural Studies and Director of Clinical Services, MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director, Holmes Society, Harvard Medical School (HMS) https://echo360.org/media/f8350d4c-1b9c-430d-947e-bd1bc00c64a7/public
	NO GRAND ROUNDS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 THANKSGIVING

December 2020

	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020 "Who Am I? And What Am I Doing Here: A Neuropsychiatrist's Musings On His Craft and a Brain Divided" Speaker: Joseph Keating. MD Co-Chief Resident in Neuropsychiatry UMMS/UMMHC
	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2020 NO GRAND ROUNDS ACNP (American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting)
	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 *“Storytelling Implications and Importance in Mental Health”* Speaker: Cassidy Cooper, DO Program Chief Resident, Chief Resident in Psychotherapy UMMS/UMMHC
	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 NO GRAND ROUNDS CHRISTMAS EVE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020 NO GRAND ROUNDS NEW YEAR'S EVE

January 2021

	THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2021 Speaker: Jingjing, Cui, MD PGY-5 Child Fellow UMMS/UMMHC

	THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021 *"The Neuropsychiatry of Aggression"* Speaker: Christopher Freeman, MD Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellow UMMS/UMMHC

	THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021 Speaker: Delia Bakeman, DO Co-Chief Resident in Neuropsychiatry UMMS/UMMHC

	THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021 Speaker: Colin Whitworth, DO PGY-5 Child Fellow UMMS/UMMHC

February 2021

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Speaker: Sohye Kim. PhD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Speaker: Kendra Kobrin, MD PhD
PGY-4 Adult Psychiatry
UMMS/UMMHC

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Speaker: Ekaterina (Kate) Pivovarova PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
Law and Psychiatry Program
UMMS/UMMHC

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Speaker: Mariko Shimizu, MD
Chief Resident in Geriatric Psychiatry
Co-Chief Resident of Ambulatory Psychiatry

March 2021

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2021

Speaker: Vishal Biala, MD
Addiction Fellow
UMMS/UMMHC

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021

NO GRAND ROUNDS

RESIDENT RETREAT

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021

VISITING PROFESSOR SERIES

Speaker: Robert Rosenheck MD
VA New England Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center/ 151D
Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Child Study Center,
Yale Medical School, VA Connecticut Health Care System

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021

Speaker: Caitlin Wilds, MD
PGY-5 Child Fellow
UMMS/UMMHC

April 2021

THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021
SHRIVER LECTURE

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2021

"The Future of Psychiatry"

Speaker: Benoit H. Mulsant MD, MS, FRCPC
Labatt Family Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Toronto

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2021
Annual Briscoli Lecture

Speaker: Susan C. Vaughan MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Member, Committee on Diversity
Columbia University

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021

Speaker: Kristina Deligiannidis, MD
Director, Women’s Behavioral Health, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Associate Professor, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMASS

THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021
Annual Debra Janssen Lecture

May 2021

THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021
NO GRAND ROUNDS

APA Conference (American Psychiatric Association)

THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021

Speaker: Sid Zisook MD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Residency Training Program
University of California, San Diego Health

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021
NO GRAND ROUNDS
FACULTY RETREAT

THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021

Speaker: Susannah Cahalan
American journalist and author of Brain on Fire

June 2021

THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021
First Semi-Annual Thompson-Hall Lecture

Speaker: Russell Barkley, PhD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Virginia Treatment Center for Children
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

THURSDAY JUNE 10, 2021

Speaker: Madeline Kearin Ryan
Project Development Librarian
Worcester Historical Museum

NO GRAND ROUNDS
THURSDAY, June 17, 2021
RESIDENT GRADUATION