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The Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds are held weekly, featuring local faculty, as well as regional and national speakers. The presentations cover a wide range of mental health topics germane to our faculty, residents, fellows, and other mental health clinicians.
Grand Rounds will pause following May presentations until September 2025.
Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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May 1 | Forging Paths to a Disability-Inclusive Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û Workforce | Christopher Moreland, M.D. |
May 8 | No Grand Rounds | |
May 15 | Unraveling the Threads of Intergenerational Trauma: From Biological Markers and Learned Behaviors to Transgenerational Resilience | Melissa Goldberg Mintz, PsyD |
May 22 | The Education Portfolio: What, Why, How? | Susan Raine, M.D., J.D. |
May 29 | The John P. McGovern Award Lectureship: Positive Deviance and Psycho-Social Wellness | Arvind Singhal, Ph.D. |
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April 24 | Faculty Development Workshop | Jin Han, M.D. Sindhu Idicula, M.D. Kanta Velamuri, M.B.B.S. Jeffrey Bates, M.D. |
April 17 | Adolescent Substance Use, Working through Co-Occurring Conditions | Edore Onigu-Otite, M.D. |
April 10 | Ketamine/Esketamine in Psychiatry: Where We Have Come From and Where We Are Going | Neil Puri, M.D. |
April 3 | Addictions Update 2024: Hot Topics and Emerging Trends in Substance Use Treatment | Daryl Shorter, M.D. |
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March 6 | Biomarkers of Suicide Attempts and Recovery: MicroRNAS as Epigenetic Plasma Biomarkers | Thomas Kosten, M.D. |
March 13 | Spring Break | |
March 20 | Faculty Meeting | |
March 27 | Lessons Learned: Medicolegal Principles that Improve Clinical Care and Decrease Risk | Ed Poa, M.D. Topaz Sampson, M.D. |
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Feb. 7 | Faculty Meeting | |
Feb. 14 | Advancing Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û Professional Well-Being: An Organizational Psychiatry Model and an Initiative to Guide your Approach | Gaurava Agarwal, M.D. |
Feb. 21 | Addressing Suicide in Traumatized Youth | Kerry Horrell, Ph.D. Carlin Barnes, M.D. |
Feb. 28 | Suicide: Immediate and Life Course Mechanisms and Prevention | Alan Swann, M.D. |
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Jan. 3 | No Grand Rounds | |
Jan. 10 | No Grand Rounds - Faculty Meeting | |
Jan. 17 | Implementing Measurement-Based Psychiatric Care at The Menninger Clinic | Michelle Patriquin, Ph.D. Jon Allen, Ph.D. |
Jan. 24 | Recognizing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: Practical Clinical & Legal Considerations for Mental Health Professionals | Velimir Rasic, J.D. Joslyn Fisher, M.D. |
Jan. 31 | Senate Bill 17 | John Saunders, M.D. |
Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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Dec. 6 | The Role of Mental Health Professionals in the Asylum Process  | Sophia Banu, M.D. J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D. Monica Alzate, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. |
Dec. 13 | Faculty Promotion Pathways with a Focus on the Single Mission Pathway | John Saunders, M.D. |
Dec. 20 | No Grand Rounds | |
Dec. 27 | Christmas Holiday - No Grand Rounds | |
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Nov. 1 | Working with High-Risk Youth: Child Trauma and Differential Diagnosis | Eugene Griffin, J.D., Ph.D. |
Nov. 8 | Postpartum Psychosis (PPP) and Infanticide: Clinical and Legal Perspectives in 2023 | Nicole Cirino, M.D. |
Nov. 15 | Menopause: A Much-Neglected Neurological Transition State and Period of Psychiatric Vulnerability | Karen Horst, M.D. |
Nov. 22 | No Grand Rounds | |
Nov. 29 | Clozapine is the Most Effective Antipsychotic Medication; Why are we not Prescribing it? | Olaoluwa Okusaga, M.D. |
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Oct. 4 | Controversies Around Antipsychotics Medications in the Treatment of Psychotic Disorders | Awais Aftab, M.D. |
Oct. 11 | First Do No Harm: Current Issues and Controversies in Pediatric Gender Medicine | Kathleen McDeavitt, M.D. |
Oct. 18 | Risks and Benefits of Social Media in Psychiatric Education | Howard Liu, M.D. Kim-Lan Czelusta, M.D. |
Oct. 25 | The Effects of Corticosteroid Excess on the Human Brain | Sherwood Brown, M.D. |
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Sept. 6 | Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach | Deborah Cabaniss, M.D. |
Sept. 13 | Professionalism Matters | Ellen Friedman, M.D. |
Sept. 20 | Faculty Meeting | |
Sept. 27 | Neurocognitive Disorders and Older Adults: An Update on Clinical and Educational Practice | Molly Camp, M.D. |
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May 24, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. (new time) | The John P. McGovern Award Lectureship: When Breath Becomes Air: Reflecting on Meaning in Medicine (Cullen Auditorium & Zoom) | Lucy Kalanithi, M.D., FACP |
May 17 | No Grand Rounds | |
May 10 | It’s Not Burnout, It’s Moral Injury | Sheila LoboPrabhu, M.D. |
May 3 | Advancing Quality and Evidence-Based Practices in Psychiatry | Luming Li, M.D. |
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April 26 | Brain Stimulation Development for Opioid Use Disorder | Hyuntaek Oh, Ph.D. |
April 19 | Strategies, Barriers, and Possible Solutions to Integrating Educational Research and Scholarship into Existing Work Efforts | Nital P. Applebaum, Ph.D. |
April 12 | Psychiatric Manifestations of Autoimmune Disorders: What Psychiatrists Need to Know | Anthony Zoghbi, M.D. |
April 5 | Psychosocial Interventions for Bipolar Disorder | Amy Cuellar, Ph.D. |
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March 29 | COVID-19, the Frame, and the Changing Face of Psychotherapy | Glen Gabbard, M.D. |
March 22 | Faculty Meeting | |
March 15 | Spring Break | |
March 8 | The McNair Initiative for Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) – Impulsivity and Sociability Findings | Nidal Moukaddam, M.D., Wayne Goodman, M.D., Ramiro Salas, M.D., Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ph.D., Bishal Lamichhane (Ph.D. candidate) |
March 1 | The Risky Brain, Adolescence, and Healthy Risk Behaviors | Nina Lauharatanahirun, Ph.D. |
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Feb. 22 | Transgender Mental Health | Eric Yarbrough, M.D. |
Feb. 15 | Faculty Development: Building Your CV | Susan P. Raine, M.D., JD, LLM, MEd |
Feb. 8 | Temporal Architecture of Suicide: Interacting Immediate and Long-term Action Regulation | Alan Swann, M.D. |
Feb. 1 | Patient-Derived Brain-Based Mechanistic Studies of Mental Health Disorders | Consuelo Walss-Bass, Ph.D. |
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Jan. 25 | Thinking about Prescribing: What the Therapeutic Alliance and Evidence Base Teach Us About Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth and Families | Shashank V. Joshi, M.D. |
Jan. 18 | SOM Curriculum Renewal Update (for faculty only) | Drs. Nadia Ismail and Sherita Love |
Jan. 11 | Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder: Practice Updates for Psychiatrists | Julia Ridgeway-Diaz, M.D. |
Jan. 4 | Faculty Development Workshop | For faculty only |
Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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Dec. 28 | Christmas Holiday Week | |
Dec. 21 | Christmas Holiday Week | |
Dec. 14 | Faculty Meeting | |
Dec. 7 | Pregnancy Termination: What Psychiatrists Need to Know | Karen Horst, M.D., Alison Goulding, M.D. |
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Nov. 30 | Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Substance Use Disorder Development and Treatment Outcomes | Daryl Shorter, M.D. |
Nov. 23 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
Nov. 16 | The Emerging Relationship between the Immune System and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Tics in Children | Sarah O'Dor, Ph.D. |
Nov. 9 | Internal and External Barriers to Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û: An Overview of Health Equity for Women | Kerry Horrell, Ph.D. Elizabeth Laney, Ph.D. |
Nov. 2 | Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Matching: The Challenge of Fentanyl | Thomas Kosten, M.D. |
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Oct. 26 | Detecting and Undoing Racial Bias in the Delivery of Electroconvulsive Therapy | Carmen Black, M.D. |
Oct. 19 | Novel Psychopharmacologic Interventions in Oncology | Christian Bjerre Real, M.D., MMCI |
Oct. 12 | ADHD and Electronics: The Game -Life Balance | Edore Onigu-Otite, M.D. |
Oct. 5 | Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health: Understanding Prolonged Grief Disorder in the Context of Traumatic Loss | Jonathan Blassingame, III, Ph.D., John Saunders, M.D., LaVonya Bennett, Ph.D. |
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Sept. 28 | Beyond the Capacity to Make Medical Decisions: the Psychiatrist's Role in Determining Testamentary Capacity and Other Civil Capacities | Edward Poa, M.D. |
Sept. 21 | Faculty Meeting | |
Sept. 14 | Pro-active Psychiatric Consultation: The Future of CL Psychiatry | Lindsay Pershern, M.D., Pedro Fernandez, M.D. |
Sept. 7 | Overdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder: Myth or Reality? | Marsal Sanches, M.D., Ph.D. |