Grand Rounds Calendar
The Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute host Psychiatry Grand Rounds Wednesdays at 11:00 AM ET. All events are accessible via Zoom, with some hybrid events.
For Grand Rounds inquiries, including nominations or to meet with a speaker, please email us at: grandrounds@nyspi.columbia.edu.
Click here for a graphic displaying upcoming Grand Rounds lectures. For a list of past Grand Rounds events and links to video recordings, please visit the Grand Rounds Archive.
April 15
The Dr. Irville and Helen MacKinnon Grand Rounds
Mentalizing: Cause, Correlate and Mechanism of Change in Personality Pathology (Dimensionally Defined)
Carla Sharp, PhD
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
University of Houston
Learning Objectives
- Describe what mentalizing is and identify its role in personality development
- Discuss the role of mentalizing as key correlate of personality pathology — especially when defined dimensionally
- Apply empirical and theoretical knowledge to target mentalizing in treatment of adolescents with personality pathology
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link
April 22
The Influence of Early Caregiving on Emotion Regulation Neurobiology
Nim Tottenham, PhD
Department Chair and Professor of Psychology
Columbia University
Learning Objectives
- Consider how early social environments shape brain development.
- Understand the neurobiology of emotional processes across development.
- Learn about the effects of caregiving-related stress on brain development.
Reading Recommendations
- Vannucci, A., Fields, A., Heleniak, C. et al. Machine learning for identifying caregiving adversities associated with greatest risk for mental health problems in children. Nat. Mental Health 3, 71–82 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00355-6
- Tottenham, N., Shapiro, M., Flannery, J., Caldera, C., & Sullivan, R. M. (2019). Parental presence switches avoidance to attraction learning in children. Nature human behaviour, 3(10), 1070–1077. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0656-9
- Valadez, E. A., Tottenham, N., Korom, M., Tabachnick, A. R., Pine, D. S., & Dozier, M. (2024). A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting Intervention During Infancy Alters Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry in Middle Childhood. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 63(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.06.015
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link
April 29
TBA
May 6
Columbia University Institute for Developmental Sciences (CUIDs) Grand Rounds
Matthew State, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link
May 13
Magdalena Cerda, PhD
Professor and Director
Center for Opioid Epidemiology & Policy
New York University
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link
May 20
NO GRAND ROUNDS
(APA Annual Meeting May 16 – May 20, 2026 in San Francisco, CA)
May 27
Gene x Environment Interactions in Brain Disease
Kristen Brennand, PhD
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Genetics
Yale School of Medicine
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link
June 3
LGBTQ+ Heritage Month Grand Rounds
Advancing Research on Suicide Risk and Prevention in LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults: Challenges and Future Directions
Kirsty Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
Vanderbilt University
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link
June 10
André Fenton, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory
Director, Center for Neural Science and Neuroscience Institute
NYU Langone Medical Center
*This Grand Rounds is IN PERSON.
(Also live-streamed via Zoom webinar)
Location
Hellman Auditorium
1st floor of NYSPI-Pardes Building
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Zoom Details
Meeting ID: 810 0337 6121
Passcode: 598948
Dial in: +1 646 558 8656
Zoom Link