UTHealth Houston Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Wednesdays 12pm to 1pm (Central) *Please see emails and other notifications for special Grand Rounds Timings and locations*
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Archive:
Grand Rounds Speakers 2026
| Date | Name and Speaker | Photo |
|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Ron Acierno, PhD Professor, Vice Chair – Veteran Affairs Executive Director, UTHealth Houston Trauma and Resilience Center Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Elder Abuse & Consequences: Findings from the National Elder Mistreatment Study and Our Current NIA ROYBAL P30 on Elder Abuse Intervention Development |  |
| January 14 | Kelly Bijanki, PhD Associate Professor Director of Intracranial Monitoring Research Baylor College of Medicine Translational Neuromodulation: Intracranial Biomarkers to Inform Novel Therapies |  |
| January 21 | Joao L. de Quevedo, MD, PhD John S. Dunn Distinguished Professor Director, Interventional Psychiatry Program Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston Electroconvulsive Therapy in 2026: Indications, Outcomes, and Clinical Decision-Making |  |
| January 28 | Thomas K. Karikari, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science Department of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Blood Biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease and Beyond |  |
| February 18 | Lucas Trambaiolli, PhD Assistant Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Circuit-Guided Psychiatry: From Neuroanatomy to Biomarkers and Targeted Neuromodulation |  |
| February 25 | Tianxu Xia, MD Assistant Professor Director of the Disease Modifying Therapy Infusion Department of Neurology UTHealth Houston Psychiatry Practice in the Era of Anti-Amyloid Therapies |  |
| March 4 | Swati Pradeep, DO Assistant Professor Department of Neurology UTHealth Houston Drug-Induced Movement Disorders: Precision in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Strategy |  |
| March 11 | Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Center for Bioethics Harvard Medical School Current Challenges in Ethics and Psychiatry: AI, Access, and Public Speech |  |
| March 25 | Wendy Ingram, PhD CEO and Cofounder Dragonfly Mental Health Both Can Be True: An Exploration of the Benefits and Detriments of Bipolar Disorder in Academia |  |
| April 1 | Adam M. Brenner, MD Distinguished Teaching Professor Department of Psychiatry UT Southwestern Medical Center Staying Grounded: Fostering Humility in Psychiatry Practice and Training |  |
| April 8 | Casey Straud, PsyD Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth San Antonio Novel Treatment Approaches to Augment Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Outcomes |  |
| April 15 | Phillippe Cunningham, PhD Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Opening the Black Box of Family Therapy: Turn-Level Measurement of Rupture-Repair |  |
| April 22 | J. Chase Findley, MD Associate Professor Gregory Hestla, MD Associate Professor Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Medical Student Education Update |   |
| April 29 | Janet Wozniak, MD Associate Professor Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Juvenile-Onset Bipolar Disorder: Can Children Have Mania? |  |
| May 5 | Rachel Sava, PhD Program Director McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry Mass General Brigham Accessible, Affordable, and Scalable Digital Health in Aging – and the Lessons We Learned Along the Way |  |
| May 14 | Psychosis Lecture Series Katherine Eisen, PhD Clinical Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Adapting CBTp-Informed Interventions for Inpatient Settings |  |