Psychiatry Grand Rounds

The Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds are held Thursdays from 12-1pm on Zoom. Please see below for the 2024-2025 Grand Rounds Schedule:

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Date Presenter Title
9/5/2024 John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP The New Science on Addiction Recovery
9/12/2024 Deb Goldfarb, LICSW Incarceration in Boston and a new Behavioral Health Approach
9/19/2024 Department Meeting 
9/26/2024 Noel Vest, PhD Collegiate Recovery Programs: A Comprehensive Approach to Supporting Students in Recovery
10/10/2024 Mark Mitchell, MD Climate Change: A Mental Health Challenge
10/17/2024 Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW The Roles Intersectionality & Cultural Humility Play When Working with Diverse Client Populations
10/24/2024 Jasper Frank, MPP, Eileen O’Brien, BA, MDiv, Meagan Hickey, LICSW & David Robinson, MCP Housing is Healthcare; Stabilizing Patients with Complex Needs in Supportive Housing
11/7/2024 Francis Shen, JD, PhD Digital Phenotyping and Portable Neuroimaging in Mental Health: Promise and Peril for the Criminal Justice System
11/14/2024 Steven Bucchianeri, RPh, PharmD, Erin Nahrgang, RN, CCM & Henry Hernández, LMHC, CCM, MBA Supporting MassHealth Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Patients: Options for Behavioral Health Care Management
11/21/2024 Leeland West Beyond Binaries: Cultural Polarization and the Importance of Human Connection
11/28/2024 THANKSGIVING 
12/5/2024 Cecily M. Barber, MD, MPH and Erica Holland, MD Urine Drug Testing in Pregnancy – Ethics Affecting Policy
12/12/2024 Nicki Dawson Decolonizing Infant Mental Health for South Africa: Contextual and Community-Based Approaches
12/19/2024 Joji Suzuki, MD Novel Treatments for Substance Use Disorders
12/26/2024 WINTER BREAK 
1/9/2025 Department Meeting 
1/16/2025 Katherine L. Wisner, MD, MS Perinatal Psychiatry: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
1/23/2025 Jack Turban, MD, MHS Sorting Through the Data on Transgender Youth Mental Health
1/30/2025 Sarah Valentine, PhD and Nuha Alshabani, PhD Clinical and research capacity building for posttraumatic stress disorder
2/6/2025 Nancy Byatt From Research to Action: Transforming Perinatal Care to Include Mental Healthcare
2/13/2025 Max Lichtenstein, MD The Evolution of Transgender Medicine
2/27/2025 Staci Gruber, PhD Cannabis & Mental Health
3/13/2025 Resham Gellatly, PhD and Joelle Taknint, PhD Racialized Harms of Migrant Family Separation: Local Research & Federal Policies
3/20/2025 Thea James, MD Topic TBD
3/27/2025 Meg Brett, MSW, LICSW, Kristin Parent, MA, LMHC & Megan Hudson, MSN, PMHNP Treating Stimulant Use Disorder
4/3/2025 TBD Topic TBD
4/10/2025 Eric Brown, PhD Protective and Risk Factors Related to Burnout in Mental Health Professionals
4/17/2025 Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities Topic TBD
5/1/2025 Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities Topic TBD
5/8/2025 Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities Topic TBD
5/15/2025 Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities Topic TBD
5/22/2025 Lucy Mercil StreetCred – Financial stability for patients
5/29/2025 Resident QI Topic TBD
6/5/2025 Resident QI Topic TBD
6/26/2025 Department Meeting