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.
SEPTEMBER 2023

THURSDAY SEPT 21, 2023
" Management of Substance Use in Perinatal Individuals"
Speaker: Kimberly A. Yonkers, M.D.
Katz Family Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
UMass Chan Medical School/UMass Memorial Medical Center

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
"Strong at the Broken Places: Leveraging the Strengths of Mental Health Providers with Mental Illness for Suicide Prevention"
Speaker: Sarah E. Victor, PhD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
Department of Psychological Sciences
Texas Tech University
OCTOBER 2023
THURSDAY OCTOBER 5, 2023
“Integrating SUD Care into Medical Systems”
Speaker: Sarah E. Wakeman MD
Internal Medicine | Addiction Medicine
Medical Director for Substance Use Disorder at Mass General Brigham
Medical Director for the MGH Substance Use Disorder Initiative
Director of the Program for Substance Use and Addiction Services, MGH Division of General Internal Medicine

Speaker: Gena Lynne C. Mooneyham, MD, MS
General Pediatrics/Adult Psychiatry/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Medical Director, NIMH Autoimmune Brain Disorders Program
NIMH Pediatric Psychiatry Inpatient Services Director
Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Associate Research Physician, NIH Intramural Research Program

THURSDAY OCTOBER 26, 2023
"What Actually Makes Us Happy?: Lessons from an 85-Year Longitudinal Study of Life"
Speaker: Robert Waldinger MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
NOVEMBER 2023
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Speaker: Adele Viguera MD
Associate Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Program
Cleveland Clinic
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2023
"Consciousness as a Memory System."
Speaker: Andrew E. Budson, M.D.
Chief, Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology and
Associate Chief of Staff for Education, VA Boston Healthcare System
Associate Director & Education Core Leader, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine
Lecturer in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Speaker: Kevin M Simon MD MPH
Chief Behavioral Health Officer – City of Boston
Pediatric Psychiatrist, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences;
Addiction Medicine Specialist, Division of Addiction Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2023
NO GRAND ROUNDS
THANKSGIVING
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Speaker: Maria A. Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D.
Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, University of Pennsylvania Health System
DECEMBER 2023
THURSDAY DECEMBER 7, 2023
NO GRAND ROUNDS
American Conference of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)
Annual Meeting
THURSDAY DECEMBER 14, 2023
Speaker: Sunita Puri, M.D.
Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center & Chan School of Medicine
Author, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour (Viking/Penguin, 2019)
THURSDAY DECEMBER 21, 2023
Speaker: Marc Gagnier MD
Child Psychiatry Fellow
Department of Psychiatry
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial
THURSDAY DECEMBER 28, 2023
NO GRAND ROUNDS
NEW YEAR
JANUARY 2024
THURSDAY JANUARY 4, 2024
Speaker: Emily Hochstetler MD
Child Psychiatry Fellow
Department of Psychiatry
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY JANUARY 11, 2024
Speaker: Kimberly Piccolli DO
PGY 3 - Chief Resident - Outpatient
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY JANUARY 18, 2024
Speaker: Pooja Modi MD
PGY5 - Chief Resident - Neuropsychiatry
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY JANUARY 25, 2023
NO GRAND ROUNDS
CURRICULUM RETREAT
FEBRUARY 2024
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Speaker: Nicolas Genovese MD
Addiction Psychiatry Fellow
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Speaker: Takeiya Lynch MD
PGY 4 - Program Chief Resident and Adolf Meyer Chief Resident in Public Sector Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Speaker: Alane Stalcup MD PhD
Child Psychiatry Fellow
Department of Psychiatry
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Speaker: Maite Cintron Pastrana MD
Chief Resident - Psychopharmacology
UMass Chan Medical School/UMassMemorial Health Care
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Speaker: Ryan Logan, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Faculty of Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building
MARCH 2024
THURSDAY MARCH 7, 2024
THURSDAY MARCH 21, 2023
Speaker: Gerard Sanacora, MD PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Director Yale Depression Research Program
Co-Director Yale-New Haven Hospital Interventional Psychiatry Service
THURSDAY MARCH 28, 2024
Speaker: Kristina M. Deligiannidis, M.D
Director, Women’s Behavioral Health, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Medical Director, Reproductive Psychiatry, Project TEACH, NYS Office of Mental Health, Professor of Psychiatry, Molecular Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Professor, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
APRIL 2024
THURSDAY APRIL 4, 2023
SHRIVER LECTURE
THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2024
Al Grudzinskas Lecture
Speaker: Michael L. Perlin, Esq.
Professor Emeritus of Law
Founding Director, International Mental Disability Law Reform Project
Co-founder, Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates
New York Law School
MAY 2024
THURSDAY MAY 2, 2024
DEB JANSSEN ANNUAL LECTURE
Charmaine F. Jackson PhD
Founder, InnoPscych, Inc.
THURSDAY MAY 16, 2024
NO GRAND ROUNDS
RESIDENT RETREAT
JUNE 2024
THURSDAY JUNE 6, 2024
THURSDAY JUNE 13, 2024
NO GRAND ROUNDS
RESIDENT GRADUATION