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Grand Rounds

2008-2009 Academic Year

(Note: Presentations are listed below in

reverse chronological order.)

November 2, 2008

Sheldon H. Preskorn, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director,
Clinical Research Institute

Wichita, Kansas

TOPIC:  Drug-Interactions: What We Can Learn from Patients

 

Please note there are no Ground Rounds

scheduled for the month of October.

 

September 24, 2008
Margaret Burchinal, M.D.
Senior Scientist and Director of Data Management
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

TOPIC Child Care Experiences and

Young Children's Social Development

September 10, 2008
Marvin Swartz, M.D.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Duke University Medical Center

TOPIC Involuntary Outpatient Commitment:

A View Post Virginia Tech

Grand Rounds

2007-2008 Academic Year

May 30, 2008
Richard Loewenstein, M.D.
Medical Director, The Trauma Disorders Program
Sheppard Pratt Health Systems and

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,

University of Maryland School of Medicine

TOPICRecent Research on Dissociative Identity Disorder

May 16, 2008
Jeff Lieberman, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry,
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Director, Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research
Psychiatrist-in-Chief @ New York Presbyterian Hospital & Columbia University Medical Center

TOPIC: New Insight into the Pathogenesis and

Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia

May 9, 2008

Chip Reynolds, M.D.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Endowed Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology &Neuroscience

Professor of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences

TOPIC:  Optimizing Treatment Outcomes in Late Life Depression

April 25, 2008

No Grand Rounds

April 18, 2008

Trey Sunderland, M.D.
TOPIC
Biomarkers - The Future of Diagnosis

in Alzheimer's Disease

April 11, 2008

No Grand Rounds

April 4, 2008

No Grand Rounds

March 28, 2008
David Pickar, M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins University

TOPIC: Schizophrenia: Making a Difference

March 21 , 2008

No Grand Rounds

March 14, 2008
Jarrold Post, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology

& International Affairs
Director, Political Psychology Program

Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University

TOPIC: When Hatred is Bred in the Bone

The Psychocultural Foundations of

Contemporary Terrorism

February 7, 2008

No Grand Rounds

February 29, 2008
Joel Kleinman, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Section of Neuropathology, CBDB, GCAP, IRP, NIMH
 National Institute of Health
TOPIC:  Expression of Risk Genes in Human Brain Development, Maturation and Schizophrenia

February 15, 2008
Robert M. Post, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine

and Pennsylvania State University
TOPIC: 
Stress, Episodes, Cocaine Alter BDNF and Exacerbate Bipolar Disorder: Implications for a New Treatment Paradigm

February 8, 2008
William S. Meyer, MSW
Associate Clinical Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Ob/GYN
Duke University Medical Center

TOPIC: 
The 'Mother' and Father of Psychoanalysis:

The Therapeutic Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi
and Sigmund Freud

January 25, 2008

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Husseini Manji, M.D.

Director, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program

Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology

and Experimental Therapeutics

NIMH

TOPIC:  Cellular Plasticity Cascades: Genes to Behavior Pathways in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Severe Mood Disorders

January 18, 2008

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Eric Elbogen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

TOPIC:  Integrating Violence Risk Assessment Research and Practice

January 11, 2008

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D.

Kenneth E. Appel Professor and Vice-Chair of Psychiatry

University of Pennsylvania

TOPIC:  A Genomic Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism

January 4, 2008

No Grand Rounds

December 28, 2007

No Grand Rounds

December 21, 2007

No Grand Rounds

December 14, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm
John Kraus, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, UNC Department of Psychiatry

TOPIC:  Clinical Features of Patients with Treatment-Emergent Suicidal Behavioral Following Initiation of Antidepressant Therapy

November 30, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Arnold J. Mandell, M.D.
Founding Chairman and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry,
UCSD, La Jolla, CA
MacArthur Prize Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience

TOPIC:  Bifircations and Chaos in Neuropsychopharmacology

November 23, 2007

No Grand Rounds

November 16, 2007
321 MacNider
1:30-3:00 pm
Alan Beeber, M.D.
UNC Department of Psychiatry

TOPIC:   Resistance in short-term psychotherapy:

Contributions of Habib Davanloo

November 9, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Richard Keefe, Ph.D.
Duke University

TOPIC:   Advances in the Assessment and Treatment of

Cognition in Schizophrenia

October 26, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Zachary N. Stowe, M.D.

Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

TOPIC:  Maternal Mental Illness:

The First Adverse Life Event

October 12, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Dan Blazer, M.D., Ph.D.

J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Vice Chair for Education and Academic Affairs

Duke University Medical Center

TOPIC:  Major Depression and Its Social Origins:

Are we Poised for a New Social Psychiatry?

 

For more information about

UNC Psychiatry Grand Rounds,

contact the Psychiatry Chair's Office at

(919) 966-4738.

To learn more about

Continuing Medical Education (CME) at UNC,

please visit http://www.med.unc.edu/cme/.