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Psychiatry State of Department Meeting
Psychiatry Faculty Retreat
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Date: November 9, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Understanding the Basis for New Treatment Developments in Psychiatry: General Principles with Agitation Serving as an Example
Guest Speaker: Sheldon H. Preskorn, MD
Speaker Bio: Dr. Preskorn is President and Chief Executive Officer for the Clinical Research Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita (KUSM-W) He currently teaches PGY3 resident psychiatrists in assessment and management of outpatients with psychiatric illness. He has authored over 500 professional publications and have been cited over 15,000 in the medical literature.
Date: January 11, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (10am PST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: John F. Kenward Memorial Lecture: Preventing and Reducing Adolescent Drug Use: The What, Why, When, and How
Guest Speaker: Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher, PhD
Speaker Bio: Dr. Halpern-Felsher is a developmental psychologist whose research has focused on cognitive and psychosocial factors involved in adolescents’ and young adults’ health-related decision-making, perceptions of risk and vulnerability, health communication, and risk behavior. Her research has focused on understanding and reducing health risk behaviors such as tobacco use, alcohol and marijuana use, risky driving, and risky sexual behavior. Her research has been instrumental in changing how providers discuss sexual risk with adolescents and has influenced national policies regulating adolescent and young adult tobacco use.
Date: February 8, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Hybrid - Live by Zoom (or) in person L 431
Title of Talk: (Re)Imagining Dialogues About Race with Black Families & Clinical Implications
Guest Speaker: Leslie A. Anderson, PhD, LMFT-S
Speaker Bio: Dr. Anderson is a Family Scientist, Family Therapist, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Consumer Sciences at Morgan State University. She is a research faculty member at Morgan’s National Center for the Elimination of Educational Disparities (NCEED). Her research broadly focuses on Black American familial processes and specifically, their processes of racial socialization. Her scholarship is rooted in a commitment to social justice and undergirded by Critical Race Theory.
Date: Rescheduled to October 24th
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (1pm EST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Daniel X Friedman Memorial Lecture: Computational mechanisms and neuroimaging biomarkers of psychosis
Guest Speaker: Guillermo Horga, MD, PhD
Speaker Bio: Dr. Horgo is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Co-Director, Clinical Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (C3N) Center
Date: April 25, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Evidence-based Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth
Guest Speaker: Claire A Coyne, PhD
Speaker Bio: Dr. Coyne is a Pediatric Psychologist, The Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Date: May 23, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (6pm GMT)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Irving B. Harris Memorial Lecture: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism
Guest Speaker: Simon Baron-Cohen, FBA, FMedSci, Kt
Speaker Bio: Simon Baron-Cohen is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge. He is author of Mindblindness, The Essential Difference, Prenatal Testosterone in Mind, and Zero Degrees of Empathy. He has edited scholarly anthologies including Understanding Other Minds. He has written books for parents and teachers including Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts. He is author of the DVDs Mind Reading and The Transporters, to help children with autism learn emotion recognition, both nominated for BAFTA awards.
Date: September 8, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (1pm EST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Predictive Coding & Psychosis
Guest Speaker: Philip Corlett, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Philip Corlett, trained in Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry with Professors Trevor Robbins and Paul Fletcher at the University of Cambridge. He won a Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship and completed his PhD on the brain bases of delusion formation in the Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry. After a short postdoc, he was awarded the University of Cambridge Parke- Davis Exchange Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences which brought him to the Yale University Department of Psychiatry to explore the maintenance of delusions with Professors Jane Taylor and John Krystal. He was named a Rising Star and Future Opinion Leader by Pharmaceutical Marketing Magazine and joined the Yale faculty in 2011 where he will continue to explore the cognitive and biological mechanisms of delusional beliefs as well as predictive learning, habit formation and addiction. Click here for announcement
Date: December 15, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (10am MST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Truong Vu Memorial Lecture in Psycho-Oncology
Guest Speaker: Karen Weihs, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Karen Weihs is Professor of Psychiatry and a Comprehensive Member of the Arizona Cancer Center. She is Medical Director of Psychosocial Support and PsychoOncology Services for the Arizona Cancer Center. She has developed a model for cancer patients, mental health care including a collaborative team of oncologists, social workers and psychiatrists.
Date: January 26, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (1pm EST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Eating Disorders Lecture
Guest Speaker: Evelyn Attia, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Evelyn Attia, received her A.B. from Princeton University in 1982 and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1986. Formerly the director of the inpatient eating disorders program at The New York State Psychiatric Institute, Dr. Attia has more recently focused on research involving the psychobiology and treatment of anorexia nervosa. Since 1999, she has received uninterrupted funding for her research from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Date: February 23, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Charles R. Schuster Memorial Lecture
Guest Speaker: Sachin Patel, M.D., Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Patel obtained his B.S. in Biological Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, followed by completion of a Medical Scientist Training Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his clinical residency in Adult Psychiatry and thereafter joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he held the position of Blakemore Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Division of General Psychiatry. He joined the Feinberg School of Medicine as the Lizzie Gilman Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in January 2022. His clinical interests center around the treatment of patients with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental illnesses in the inpatient and residential treatment settings and has contributed to the education of residents and clinical fellows at the didactic and practice level. Dr. Patel’s research has focused on understanding how endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitters regulate neuro-behavioral processes relevant to affective disorders, and the pharmacology of cannabis constituents as it relates to pathophysiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders. His research has been recognized by national and international agencies, associations, and research societies.
Date: March 16, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (1pm EST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Health disparities lecture series in memory of Quentin Young, M.D.
Guest Speaker: Margarita Alegria, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Margarita Alegría has spent her career examining how to reduce health disparities for populations of color, immigrants, and linguistic minorities. She is currently the principal investigator (PI) of three National Institutes of Health funded research studies: Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care, Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders, and Latino Youths Coping with Discrimination: A Multi-Level Investigation in Micro-and Macro-Time. She is also PI of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant assessing opportunities to establish institutional, policy and systemic changes to increase racial/ethnic diversity in academic health sciences.
Date: April 27th, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (1pm EST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Best Practices for Measuring Race in Medical Research
Guest Speaker: Lorraine Dean, ScD
Speaker Bio: Dr. Dean is Associate Professor in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As a social epidemiologist, her work focuses on privilege and health, including social (racism, discrimination, social capital) and economic (consumer credit, socioeconomic position) determinants of disparities in cancer and HIV. She has led several studies as PI of NIH and Center for AIDS Research grants. She holds a doctorate from Harvard School of Public Health and was a J. William Fulbright program awardee to Venezuela.
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Date: October 14, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (1pm EST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Charles R. Schuster Memorial Lecture (Addictions):
Guest Speaker: Kermit A Crawford, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Kermit Crawford, currently Associate Professor and The Avalon Endowed Chair of Psychology at Hampton University and Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus from the Boston University School of Medicine, is a licensed Psychologist, teacher and researcher. Dr. Crawford is formerly Director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health (CMMH) at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Marathon Bombing Victims/Survivors Resiliency Center. He has done extensive work in multicultural behavioral health disaster response, trauma, addictions and culturally-informed practices across the nation. Dr. Crawford is the recipient of a number of national, state and local awards, citations and recognitions. He was formerly a member on the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Committee on Developing Evidence-Based Standards for Psychosocial Interventions for Mental Disorders Institute of Medicine (IOM). He is currently a member of the Disaster Behavioral Health Response Cadre of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and others. In addition to his earned doctorate from Boston College, he is recipient of an honorary doctorate from William James College. Dr. Crawford is a former Psychologist for the National Football League (NFL) assigned to the New England Patriots. Click here for announcement
Date: November 18, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (6pm GMT)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Memorial Lecture (Consult-Liaison Psychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Ted Dinan, M.D., Ph.D., FRPCPsych, FACP
Speaker Bio: Dr. Ted Dinan is Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University College. He was previously Chair of Clinical Neurosciences and Professor of Psychological Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. He has worked in research laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic and has a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. His main research interest is in the role of the gut microbiota in stress-related disorders. He has also worked extensively on the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In 1995 was awarded the Melvin Ramsey Prize for research into the biology of stress. In 2019 he was ranked by Expertscape as the number 1 global expert on the microbiota and also listed in the top 100 Global Makers and Mavericks. He has published over 550 papers and numerous books on pharmacology and neurobiology. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals. Click here for announcement
Date: February 24, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (10am PST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: STAIR Narrative Therapy: A Resource Rehabilitation Approach to Trauma Recovery
Guest Speaker: Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Marylene Cloitre is a senior staff member at the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division at the Palo Alto VA and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her research and clinical work for the past 30 years has focused on the long-term effects of childhood trauma on social and emotional functioning. She is a New York City native and for many years was on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University NYU). Dr. Cloitre was the founding director of the Institute for Trauma and Recovery at the NYU Child Study Center following 9/11 and a member of the advisory board for the 9/11 Memorial Museum. She was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 working group on trauma-spectrum disorders which successfully advocated for the inclusion of Complex PTSD as a diagnosis in the ICD. She is past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She is also the 2015 recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Trauma Psychology from Division 56 of the American Psychological Association. Click here for announcement
Date: March 17, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (10am PST)
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Daniel X Freeman Memorial Lecture: Dopamine Nation
Guest Speaker: Anna Lembke, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Lembke was one of the first in the medical community to sound the alarm regarding opioid overprescribing and the opioid epidemic. In 2016, she published her best-selling book on the prescription drug epidemic, "Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Her book was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Click here for announcement
Date: April 21, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Comprehensive Post-trauma Mental Health Care: Considerations for Level 1 Trauma Centers
Guest Speaker: Terri deRoon-Cassini, Ph.D., M.S.
Speaker Bio: Terri deRoon-Cassini is a health psychologist with an area of expertise in working with survivors of trauma and individuals having difficulty coping with acute and chronic illness. Click here for announcement
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Date: July 30th, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Quentin Young Memorial Lecture (Health Disparities):
Guest Speaker: Helena Hansen, M.D., Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Helena Hansen is an assistant professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at NYU and a research scientist at Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. She has published widely in clinical and social science journals ranging from JAMA to Social Science and Medicine, on faith healing of addiction in Puerto Rico, psychiatric disability under welfare reform, addiction pharmaceuticals and race, and ethnic marketing of pharmaceuticals. Click here for announcement
Date: December 17th, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Quentin Young Memorial Lecture (Health Disparities):
Guest Speaker: Nneka Jones Tapia, PsyD
Speaker Bio: Dr. Nneka Tapia is a Leader in Residence, Licensed Clinical Psychologist from Chicago Beyond. Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia is an experienced psychologist who is passionate about mental wellness, criminal justice reform, and supporting young people who have experienced trauma. Prior to joining Chicago Beyond, she served as a Senior Fellow with the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and as the Executive Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections. As the leader of the jail – an institution that has been called “the largest mental hospital in the country” with 2,000+ inmates diagnosed with mental illness on a given day – Dr. Tapia spearheaded several bold strategies to promote wellness and reduce recidivism. Click here for announcement
Date: February 11th, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: John F. Kenward Memorial Lecture (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Russell Barkley is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA. He is board certified in Clinical Psychology (ABPP), Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN, ABPP). Dr. Barkley is a clinical scientist, educator, and practitioner who has published 26 other books, rating scales, and clinical manuals numbering more than 43 editions, and creator of 7 award winning professional videos. He has also published more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters related to the nature, assessment, and treatment of ADHD and related disorders. He is the founder and Editor of the clinical newsletter, The ADHD Report, now in its 28th year of publication. Dr. Barkley has presented more than 800 invited lectures in more than 30 countries and appeared on nationally televised shows such as 60 Minutes, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, and many others. He has received numerous awards from professional societies and ADHD organizations for his lifetime achievements, contributions to research and clinical practice, and the dissemination of science. His websites are: www.russellbarkley.org and www.ADHDLectures.com. Click here for announcement
Date: March 18, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Memorial Lecture (Consult-Liaison Psychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Robert (Bob) Weinrieb, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Robert Weinrieb is a Psychosomatic Medicine Specialist in Philadelphia, PA. He is affiliated with Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Click here for announcement
Date: April 8, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Truong Vu Memorial Lecture in Psycho-Oncology
Guest Speaker: Jennifer Night, M.D., MS, FACLP
Speaker Bio: Dr. Jennifer Knight is an Associate Professor who specializes in Psycho-Oncology. With a specific interest in cancer psychiatry, she is the Medical Director of the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Psycho-Oncology Program and also leads an NIH-funded biobehavioral oncology research program. Her goal is to better understand the biological relationship between the brain and the body in the cancer setting so we might best intervene to improve mental health and clinical cancer outcomes. Her research continually informs her clinical practice and allows her to deliver cutting-edge treatment options. Click here for announcement
Date: May 20th, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Live by Zoom
Title of Talk: Charles R. Schuster Memorial Lecture (Addictions):
Guest Speaker: Richard J Miller, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Richard Miller has had over 40 years of experience in research in the field of neuropharmacology, particularly the study of analgesic drugs and their mechanism of action including work on endorphins and opioid receptors, voltage dependent calcium channels and inflammatory cytokines. He has been continuously funded by the NIH for over 40 years during which time he has received two MERIT awards. Dr. Miller has previously trained 44 graduate students and 50 postdoctoral fellows as well as numerous undergraduate and medical students seeking research experience. He has also acted as a mentor for students receiving NRSA and K08 awards. Dr. Miller is currently working on the molecular and cellular basis of pain in association with osteoarthritis and other musculoskeletal diseases. Click here for announcement
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Date: September 12th, 2019
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: Charles R. Schuster Memorial Lecture (Addictions):
Guest Speaker: Carl Hart, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Carl Hart is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction. Hart was the first tenured African American professor of sciences at Columbia University.
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Date: October 31st, 2019
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: Heinz Kohut Memorial Lecture (Humanism in Psychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Otto F Kernberg, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Kernberg is a psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is most widely known for his psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology. In addition, his work has been central in integrating postwar ego psychology (which was primarily developed in the United States and the United Kingdom) with Kleinian and other object relations perspectives (which was developed primarily in the United Kingdom and South America). His integrative writings were central to the development of modern object relations, a theory of mind that is perhaps the theory most widely accepted among modern psychoanalysts.
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Date: November 21st, 2019
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: The Stuart C. Yudofsky Lecture (Neuropsychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Sophia Vinogradov, M.D.
Speaker Bio: is Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry in Residence at UCSF. She is Associate Chief of Staff; Chief of Mental Health Service, at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She is also Scientific Co-Director of the Prodrome Assessment, Research, and Treatment program at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco. She received her M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine, obtained her psychiatry residency training at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident, and completed a Psychiatric Neurosciences Research Fellowship at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center and Stanford University.
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Date: January 30th, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: John F. Kenward Memorial Lecture (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Bernice Pescosolido, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Bernice Pescosolido is an American sociologist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University and also a published author. From 1998 to 2006, she was also the Chancellor's Professor of Indiana University. She has also served as Vice-President of the American Sociological Association and its Chair of Sociology of Mental Health and Medical Sociology.
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Date: February 27th, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: Gloria Park Memorial Lecture (Mood Disorders):
Guest Speaker: David Klonsky, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Klonsky received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
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Date: March 12th, 2020 (CANCELED)
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: Ellen C. Manning Lecture (Neurobiology and Neuroscience):
Guest Speaker: Evelyn Attia, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Evelyn Attia is the director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute Eating Disorders Research Program and the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at Columbia University Medical Center.
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Date: March 26th, 2020 (CANCELED)
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: Truong Vu Memorial Lecture in Psycho-Oncology
Guest Speaker: Jennifer Night, M.D., MS, FACLP
Date: April 9th, 2020 (CANCELED)
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Dora De Lee Hall
Title of Talk: Elisabeth Kubler-Rosss Memorial Lecture (Consult-Liaison Psychiatry):
Guest Speaker: Robert Weinrieb, M.D.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Robert Weinrieb is a psychiatrist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and has been in practice for more than 20 years.