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.
March 4
Dr. Susan Essock Lecture
Learning Health Systems for Improving Mental Health
Amy Kilbourne, PhD
Associate Chair, Department of Learning Health Sciences
Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
University of Michigan
*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
March 11
Social Neuroscience: Bonding and Loss
Zoe Donaldson, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
Learning Objectives
- Describe how supportive social bonds promote physical and mental health, and the health consequences associated with social loss.
- Explain how close relationships emerge from dynamic, bidirectional interactions between individuals, and cannot be understood in isolation
- Summarize evidence for biological alignment (e.g., neural and gene expression synchrony) in close relationships and its potential role in relationship stability.
Reading Recommendations
- Harris, E. (2023). Meta-Analysis: Social Isolation, Loneliness Tied to Higher Mortality. JAMA, 330(3), 211. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.11958
- Keyes, K. M., Pratt, C., Galea, S., McLaughlin, K. A., Koenen, K. C., & Shear, M. K. (2014). The burden of loss: Unexpected death of a loved one and psychiatric disorders across the life course in a national study. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(8), 864–871. (24832609). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13081132
- Purol, M. F., Keller, V. N., Oh, J., Chopik, W. J., & Lucas, R. E. (2021). Loved and lost or never loved at all? Lifelong marital histories and their links with subjective well-being. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(5), 651–659. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1791946
- Simon, N. M., & Shear, M. K. (2024). Prolonged Grief Disorder. The New England Journal of Medicine, 391(13), 1227–1236. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMcp2308707
*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
March 18
Scott Russo, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience and the Brain Body Research Center
Mount Sinai Icahn 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
March 25
NYSPI/Department of Psychiatry Town Hall
April 1
Early Career Investigator Grand Rounds
Natalie Bareis, PhD, LMSW
Assistant Professor of Clinical Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry)
Columbia University
Alexandra Muratone, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Columbia University
Benjamin Srivastava, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia 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
April 8
Bradley Miller, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia 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
April 15
The Dr. Irville and Helen MacKinnon Grand Rounds
Carla Sharp, PhD
John and Rebecca Moore Professor
University of Houston
*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
Nim Tottenham, PhD
Department Chair and Professor of Psychology
Columbia 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
April 29
Robert Malenka, MD, PhD
Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford 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 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
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