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.

For a list of past Grand Rounds events and links to video recordings, please visit the Grand Rounds Archive.


January 22

Cell Type-Specific and Spatially-Resolved Approaches for Understanding Human Brain Disorders

Keri Martinowich, PhD
Senior Investigator and Director, Translational Neuroscience,
Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins University 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

Recommended Readings

  1. Breen, G., Li, Q., Roth, B. L., O'Donnell, P., Didriksen, M., Dolmetsch, R., O'Reilly, P. F., Gaspar, H. A., Manji, H., Huebel, C., Kelsoe, J. R., Malhotra, D., Bertolino, A., Posthuma, D., Sklar, P., Kapur, S., Sullivan, P. F., Collier, D. A., & Edenberg, H. J. (2016). Translating genome-wide association findings into new therapeutics for psychiatry. Nature Neuroscience, 19(11), 1392–1396. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4411
  2. Derks, E.M., Thorp, J.G. & Gerring, Z.F. Ten challenges for clinical translation in psychiatric genetics. Nat Genet 54, 1457–1465 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01174-0
  3. Maynard, K.R., Jaffe, A.E. & Martinowich, K. Spatial transcriptomics: putting genome-wide expression on the map. Neuropsychopharmacol. 45, 232–233 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0484-7

January 29

U.S. Cannabis Use and Cannabis Use Disorder in a Changing Cannabis Landscape

Deborah Hasin, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
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

Recommended Readings

  1. Compton WM, Einstein EB, Han B. 12-month prevalence estimates of substance use disorders using DSM-5 versus DSM-IV criteria among U.S. nonelderly adults with substance use. American Journal of Psychiatry 2024;181(11):1018-1021. https://www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20231060
  2. Haney M. Cannabis Use and the Endocannabinoid System: A Clinical Perspective. Am J Psychiatry. 2022 Jan;179(1):21-25. PMID: 34974755. https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.21111138
  3. Hasin DS, Wall MM, Alschuler DM, Mannes ZL, Malte C, Olfson M, Keyes KM, Gradus JL, Cerdá M, Maynard CC, Keyhani S, Martins SS, Fink DS, Livne O, McDowell Y, Sherman S, Saxon AJ. Chronic pain, cannabis legalisation, and cannabis use disorder among patients in the US Veterans Health Administration system, 2005 to 2019: a repeated, cross-sectional study. Lancet Psychiatry. 2023 Nov;10(11):877-886. Epub 2023 Oct 11. Erratum in: Lancet Psychiatry. 2023 Dec;10(12):e30. PMID: 37837985; PMCID: PMC10627060. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(23)00268-7/fulltext

February 5

The Dr. Irville and Helen MacKinnon Grand Rounds

Update on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy:
An Evidence-Based Psychoanalytic Therapy for Personality Pathology

Frank Yeoman, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry;
Director of Training, Personality Disorders Institute
Weill Cornell Medical College

*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


February 12

Oxygen and the Pressure to Sleep

Gero Miesenböck, MD
Waynflette Professor of Physiology
Oxford 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


February 19

Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Mental Health

Philip Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, FAASM
Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania

*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


February 26

Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion's Grand Rounds Event in honor of Black History Month

Pamela Collins, MD
Professor and Chair
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

*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 5

Dr. Susan Essock Rounds

A Journey of Research on Arrests, Charges, and Criminal Justice Entanglement among Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses

Michael Compton, MD
Professor of 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


March 12

Early Stage Investigators Series

Jennifer Mootz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Columbia University

Morgan R. Firestein, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Columbia University

Mariah L. DeSerisy, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Columbia University Irving 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


March 19

Stephan Sanders, BMBS, PhD
Professor of Paediatric Neurogenetics, University of Oxford Associate
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Affiliate of the New York Genome Center (NYGC)

*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 26

Women in Science Empowerment (WiSE) Lecture

Tamar Gur, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Ohio State University