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 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