Grand Rounds Archive

The Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Woman's Board Grand Rounds lecture series invites nationally and internationally recognized subject matter experts to speak on a wide range of topics pertinent to psychiatry, behavioral sciences, and the broader health community.

The events listed below are from past academic years. Learn more about the series and view current events

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Academic Year 2024-2025

Date	Speaker Name	Speaker Institution	Title
9/12/2024	Sacha McBain, PhD	Rush	Medical Trauma and Intervention PTSD View the presentation here
9/19/2024 *In-Person	Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD	Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin	The Future of Psychedelics - Problems and Promises View the presentation here
9/26/2024 *In-Person	Mark Komrad, MD	Johns Hopkins University, The University of Maryland, Tulane University	Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia for Patients with Psychiatric Disorders: An Emerging Ethical Crisis View the presentation here
10/03/2024 *In-Person	Tom Farley	Community Outreach Director, RehabPath	Growing Up Farley, A Story of Addiction, Love, and Forgiveness View the presentation here
10/10/2024	Len Adler, MD	NYU Langone Health	Update on the diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD View the presentation here
10/17/2024	Krissie Fernandez Smith, PhD, ABPP	Cook County Juvenile Court Clinic, Northwestern University	Postponed until Spring 2025 due to speaker illness
10/24/2024 *In-Person	Nicole Russo Ponsaran, PhD	Rush	Impact of early school start times on young learners View the presentation here
10/31/2024	No Grand Rounds
11/7/2024	Stephanie Bailey, LCSW	Rush Social Work and Community Health	Caring for Caregivers View the presentation here
11/14/2024 *In-Person	Ann Childress, MD Woman's Board Invited Lecturer	University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV)	Treating ADHD in Patients Who Have an Inadequate Response to Stimulants View the presentation here
11/21/2024	Evan White, PhD	Laureate Institute for Brain Research, University of Tulsa	Community Engaged Translational Neuroscience Research: Novel Approaches to Understanding Mental Health Disparities in American Indian Communities
11/28/2024	No Grand Rounds
12/05/2024	Avelina Padin, PhD	Rush	BRIDGES: Connecting Parent Wisdom and Provider Expertise to Transform Family-Serving Systems View the presentation here
12/12/2024	Frank Clark, MD, FAPA, ACPsych	Prisma Health	Catharsis Welcomes Creativity: A Poet's Tale of Exploring Mental Health View the presentation here
12/19/2024	Diane Chen, PhD	Lurie Children's, Northwestern University	Examining the evidence base for gender affirming care for transgender youth
12/26/2024	No Grand Rounds
1/2/2025	No Grand Rounds
1/9/2025	Alik Widge, MD, PhD	University of Minnesota	Deep Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry View the presentation here
1/16/2025	Major General (Retired) Gregg Martin, PhD	U.S. Army	Living with mental illness in the military: success, crisis, recovery, and new life. View the presentation here
1/23/2025	Tanya Sorrell, PhD	Rush	Health Inequities in Behavioral Health/Substance Use Treatment: Pulling back the curtain and Naming the Elephant View the presentation here
1/30/2025	Jose Maldonado, MD	Stanford University	Critical Care Psychiatry - The Nature and Treatment of ICU Delirium View the presentation here
2/6/2025	Alfonso Mercado, PhD	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	Impact of Family Separation View the presentation here
2/13/2025	Guido Frank, MD	University of California San Diego	RESCHEDULED
2/20/2025 *In-Person	Krissie Fernandez Smith, PhD, ABPP	Cook County Juvenile Court Clinic, Northwestern University	Parenting Evaluations for Families Involved in Child Protection Courts View the presentation here
2/27/2025	Paul Desan, MD, PhD	Yale University	Bright Light Therapy for Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Mood Disorders View the presentation here
3/6/2025	Kensa Gunter, PsyD, CMPC	National Basketball Association (NBA)	Applied Sports Psychology: Working at the Intersection of Mental Performance and Mental Health View the presentation here
3/13/2025	Joel Wyatt, PhD	Rush	Unified Protocol in an Intensive Treatment Model View the presentation here
3/20/2025	Nadine Kaslow, PhD	Emory University	How to Publish in Peer Reviewed Journals View the presentation here
3/27/2025 *In-Person	Petros Levounis, MD, MA	Rutgers New Jersey Medical School	Technological Addictions: The New Frontier in Addiction Psychiatry View the presentation here
4/3/2025	Guido Frank, MD	University of California San Diego	Eating Disorders - Connecting Clinical Presentation, Neurobiology and Treatment View the presentation here
4/10/2025	Polly Gipson Allen, PhD	University of Michigan	RESCHEDULED for Fall 2025
4/17/2025 *In-Person	Nancy Donovan, MD	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Social connection, aging, and Alzheimer's disease View the presentation here
4/24/2025	Christina Low Kapalu, PhD	Oregon Health & Science University	Fix the fence so you don't have to pull people from the water: Moving upstream when promoting child health View the presentation here
5/1/2025 *In-Person	Resident/Fellow Talk Katie Brundage	Rush Neuropsychology Resident	The Role of Subjective Cognitive Complaints Across Populations: Summary of Recent Research View the presentation here
5/8/2025	Resident/Fellow Talk Dr. Basir Hussaini	Rush Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellow	Prolonged Hospitalization: A Psychiatric and Multidisciplinary Challenge View the presentation here
5/15/2025 *In-Person	Resident/Fellow Talk Dr. Zain Nayani & Dr. Tyler Reese	Rush Addiction Medicine Fellows	Uncorking the Truth: Alcohol, Health Myths, and the New Evidence View the Presentation here
5/22/2025	Resident/Fellow Talk Dr. LaTashia Raymond	Rush Road Home Postdoctoral Fellow	What Lies Beneath: An Examination of Military Regulations and Practices That Adversely impact Treatment Seeking View the presentation here
5/29/2025	Jonathan Kaplan, MD and Amber Altidor, DNP	Rush	Sleep Disturbance in Cancer View the presentation here
6/5/2025	Rajendra Morey, MD	Duke University School of Medicine	The Effects of Climate Change on Mental Health: Planning and Policy Implications View the presentation here
6/12/2025	Samuel Jackson, MD	Rush, Erie Family Health Centers	Why Public Psychiatry Matters View the presentation here

Academic Year 2023-2024

Date	Speaker Name	Speaker Institution	Title of Presentation
9/14/2023	Stefanie LoSavio, PhD	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	Cognitive Processing therapy View the presentation here
9/21/2023	Arielle Sheftall, PhD	University of Rochester Medical Center	IN-PERSON, Woman's Board Lecture - Trends in Youth Suicide View the presentation here
9/28/2023	Katherine Koh, MD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Homelessness and Mental Illness: Clinical Practice, Prediction, and Policy View the presentation here
10/5/2023	Steven Girardeau, PsyD, LP	MHS (Mental Health Systems, Inc.)	Current Trends in Insurance and How They Intersect with the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders View the presentation here
10/12/2023	Melissa Lamar, MD	RUSH University Medical Center	Acculturation in Context: A Framework for Understanding Brain Aging in Older Latinos View the presentation here
10/19/2023	Susan Buehler, PhD Mike Hefferly, PhD	RUSH University Medical Center	Research on treatment consideration for tinnitus View the presentation here
10/26/2023	Raj Addepalli, MD	Lincoln Hospital Medical Center, Cornell Medicine	Managment of pregnant patients with psychosis/mood disorder on the inpatient unit View the presentation here
11/2/2023	Margaret Sibley, PhD	University of Washington School of Medicine	Course and Stability of ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood: Findings from the Multimodal Treatment of ADHD (MTA) Study View the presentation here
11/9/2023	Angela Lawson, PhD	Northwestern Medical Group	The Psychological Consequences of Infertility and Its Treatment View the presentation here
11/16/2023	Chuka Nestor Emezue, PhD, MPH, MPA,	RUSH University Medical Center	Technology-Enhanced Interventions for Co-Occurring Violence and Substance Use among Young Boys and Men View the presentation here
11/30/2023	Harold Koenig, MD	Duke University Medical Center	Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health: Research and Clinical Applications View the presentation here
12/7/2023	Brad Appelhans, PhD	RUSH University Medical Center	Integrating "reward landscapes" in models of health behavior View the presentation here
12/14/2023	Gabrielle Pagé, PhD	University of Montreal	Temporal and dynamic aspects of pain that influence physical and psychological well-being View the presentation here
1/4/2024	Julie Teater, MD, DFAPA, FASAM	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	The Case for Hospital-Based Addiction Treatment View the presentation here
1/11/2024	Surita Rao, MD Cassandra Holinka, PhD	University of Connecticut School of Medicine	Physician suicide View the presentation here
1/18/2024	Tanya Sorrell, PhD	RUSH University Medical Center	IN-PERSON, Racial Issues in Psychiatry- An analysis of a racial health equity educational module for RUMC medical students View the presentation here
1/25/2024	Michelle Sweet, MD Laurin Mack, PhD	RUSH University Medical Center	Faculty Development: Feedback Conversations View the presentation here
2/1/2024	Nathan Kimbrel, PhD	Duke University Medical Center	Recent Developments in the Assessment and Prediction of Self-Directed Violence View the presentation here
2/8/2024	Sophia Vinogradov, MD	University of Minnesota Medical School	Promoting Cognitive and Neural System Recovery in Early Psychosis View the presentation here
2/15/2024	Ruchi Fitzgerald, MD, FAAFP	RUSH University Medical Center	The Project LIFE program : Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine to End Overdose: Opportunities for Addressing Equity in Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Overlooked Populations View the presentation here
2/22/2024	Monica Argumedo, MD	RUSH University Medical Center	IN-PERSON, The benefit of the forensic perspective in relation to PTSD diagnosis and treatment in the clinical setting View the presentation here
2/29/2024	Danielle Hairston, MD	Howard University	The Overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in Black Men View the presentation here
3/7/2024	Demian Rose, MD, PhD	University of California at San Francisco	Language Matters: correcting the most common category errors made by clinicians treating psychosis View the presentation here
3/14/2024	Kathy Zebracki, PhD, MA	Shriners Children's Chicago	Children and Adolescents with Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury: Unique Considerations View the presentation here
3/21/2024	Scott Palmer, MD	RUSH University Medical Center	IN-PERSON, Historical and Clinical Perspectives of Cannabinoids in Medicine
3/28/2024	Candice Norcott, PhD	University of Chicago	Listening to the Perspectives of Black Women on Perinatal Health Disparities: Reversing the Tide and Improving Outcomes View the presentation here
4/4/2024	Charles Conway, MD	Washington University in St. Louis	Danos-Scheftner Lecture in Affective Disorders - Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression View the presentation here
4/11/2024	Alan Schatzberg, MD	Stanford University School of Medicine	Inflammation in Major Depression: An Update View the presentation here
4/18/2024	Greg Chasson, PhD	University of Chicago	Thinking Outside the Overstuffed Box to Enhance Motivation to Change in Adults with Hoarding View the presentation here
4/25/2024	Michael Bloch, MD, MS	Yale School of Medicine	Ketamine as a novel antidepressant for treatment-resistant depression in adolescents View the presentation here
5/2/2024	Andrew Schiller, MD	RUSH University Medical Center	Resident/Fellow talks - NMDA Encephalitis View the presentation here
5/9/2024	Cody Naughton, MD	RUSH University Medical Center	IN-PERSON, Resident/Fellow talks - Compassionate care for persons with benzodiazepine misuse, benzodiazepine use disorder and complex persistent benzodiazepine withdrawal View the presentation here
5/16/2024	Makenzie Irrgang, PhD	RUSH University Medical Center	Resident/Fellow talks - OCD and PTSD: Diagnostic Overlap and Treatment Considerations View the presentation here
5/23/2024	Jacob Cross, MD	RUSH University Medical Center	Resident/Fellow talks - Data and clinical implications of the placebo effect View the presentation here
5/30/2024	Greg Pontone, MD, MHS	University of Florida College of Medicine	A Novel Mechanism for Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis View the presentation here
6/6/2024	Oncology Panel	RUSH University Medical Center	Personal & professional experiences in cancer care from the perspective of minority identit(ies)”
6/13/2024	Mark Zimmerman, MD	Brown University, South County Psychiatry	In The Trenches With Difficult To Treat Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: Principles To Survive By View the presentation here

Questions about the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds? Contact Amy Perry at amy_d_perry@rush.edu.