2025 Grand Rounds Speakers
| Date | Name and Title | Image |
|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | ||
| Jan 8 | Amy Garcia, PhD. Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston Assessing Autism Across the Lifespan: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach |  |
| Jan 15 | Cindy Woolverton, PhD. Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston Age-Friendly Care: A 4Ms Approach for Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Care for Older Adults |  |
| Jan 22 | Gabriel Fries, PhD Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston Am I Aging Faster? The Epigenetics of Bipolar Disorder and Suicide |  |
| Jan 29 | Eric Lenze, MD Wallace and Lucille K Renard Professor of Psychiatry. Department of Psychiatry Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Managing Clinical Complexity in 2025: Treating Geriatric Depression |  |
| February 2025 | ||
| Feb 5 | Constanza de Dios, PhD Instructor (Research Faculty) Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Predicting Inpatient Aggressive Events in Large Psychiatric Hospital |  |
| Feb 12 | Leila Wood, PhD, MSSW Professor – Director of Research and Evaluation, Center for Violence Prevention Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston The Center for Violence Prevention and the Texas Violence and Injury Prevention Research Center: Mixed Methods Approaches for Community Engagement Violence Prevention Research |  |
| Feb 19 | Elizabeth Baumler, PhD Professor – Director of Biostatistics, Center for Violence Prevention Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Evaluate Intercession Effectiveness in School (Violence Prevention) |  |
| Feb 20 | Samantha Reznik, PhD Foundations of Psychosis and Recovery-Oriented Care NON CME PRESENTATION |  |
| Feb 26 | Heather Webber, PhD Professor – Director of Biostatistics, Center for Violence Prevention Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Rethinking Psychostimulant Use Disorder: Exciting New Treatment Approaches |  |
| March 2025 | ||
| Mar 5 | Warren Taylor, MD James G. Blakemore Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. McGovern Medical School Vanderbilt University Medical Center Redefining Remission from Late-Life Depression: Is There a “New Normal?” IN PERSON PRESENTATION, DUNN EDUCATION CENTER |  |
| Mar 12 | Stuart Nelson, MA President and Chief Executive Officer Institute for Spirituality and Health Spirituality and Health: A Local History and Framework for Clinical Practice |  |
| Mar 19 | Jordan Karp, MD Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry – College of Medicine University of Arizona Personalized Depression Prevention: Bending the Curve in Both Incident and Prevalent Depression Across the Lifespan IN PERSON PRESENTATION, DUNN EDUCATION CENTER |  |
| Mar 26 | Ananda Amstadter, PhD Professor School of Medicine – Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University Genetics of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders IN PERSON PRESENTATION, DUNN EDUCATION CENTER |  |
| April 2025 | ||
| Apr 2 | Xiaoming Du, PhD Assistant Professor – Research Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston The Role of TMS in Psychiatric Research and Treatment: From Biomarkers to Recovery |  |
| Apr 16 | Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc William P. and Henry B. Test Professor and Department Chair Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Vanderbilt University Medical School Brain Images in Psychiatry – Who Needs Them? IN PERSON PRESENTATION, DUNN EDUCATION CENTER |  |
| Apr 23 | Vijayasree V Giridharan, MD Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Infection-Triggered Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Unraveling the Gut Microbiota-Brain Axis Nexus |  |
| Apr 30 | J. Chase Findley, MD Assistant Professor and Gregory Hestla, MD Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Medical Student Education Update |   |
| May 2025 | ||
| May 7 | Bruno Kluwe-Schiavon, PhD Instructor – Research Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston What We Say, How We Say It: Multimodal Speech Markers in Psychiatry |  |
| May 14 | Jane Hamilton, PhD, MPH, LCSW Associate Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Leveraging Implementation Science to Improve Population Behavioral Health |  |
| May 28 | Tom Insel, MD Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist. Board Member Fountain House and Peterson Health Technology Institute Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health |  |
| June 2025 | ||
| June 18 | Dean Atkinson, MD Taiwo Babatope, MD Joao De Quevedo, MD, PhD Martin Huynh, MD Vineeth John, MD, MBA Brandi Karnes, MD Nubia Lluberes, MD Katherine Loveland, PhD Olaniyi Olayinka, MD ANilkumar Pillai, PhD Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston |  |
| Summer Break | ||
| September 2025 | ||
| September 10 | Mark Powers, PhD Director of Trauma Research Baylor Scott & White Advancing PTSD Treatment: Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Enhance Prolonged Exposure Therapy – Safety Data and Update on the Randomized Trial |  |
| September 17 | Matthew S. Stanford, PhD Chief Executive Officer Hope and Healing Center & Institute The Elephant in the Room: Addressing Clients’ Faith in Mental Health Care |  |
| October 2025 | ||
| October 1 | Marsal Sanches, MD, PhD, FAPA Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston Love Addiction: Does it Exist? |  |
| October 15 | Jair C. Soares, MD, PhD Professor Vice President for Behavioral Sciences Professor & Pat R. Rutherford, Jr. Chair in Psychiatry Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston Searching for Viable Biomarkers of Bipolar Disorders |  |
| October 22 | Yosefa A. Modiano, PhD Assistant Professor Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston The Evolution of Functional Seizures: Diagnosis, Etiology, and Emerging Treatments |  |
| October 29 | Bobby Nix, MD Associate Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston Carolina Olmos, MD Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston BD² Integrated Network Grand Rounds Collaborative Conversations About Heart and Brain Health |   |
| November 2025 | ||
| November 12 | Rajesh K. Gupta, MD, MS Associate Professor Department of Neurology McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston Unmasking Autoimmune Encephalitis: When Psychiatric Symptoms Lead the Way |  |
| November 19 | Eric Sumlin, PhD Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston From Risk to Recovery: Integrative Approaches to the Treatment of Suicidal Thoughts Behaviors |  |
| December 2025 | ||
| December 3 | Katherine Loveland, PhD Landmark Charities Professor of Autism Research and Treatment Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston Lokesh Shahani, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP FASAM Associate Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston Mental Health in a Digital Age: Insights from Psychiatry and Psychology |   |
| December 10 | Arash Javanbakht, MD Director – Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic (STARC) School of Medicine – Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences Wayne State University Unreal That Feels Real: AI Enhanced Augmented Reality Technologies for Transdiagnostic Treatment of PTSD and Anxiety Disorders |  |
| See You in 2026! |