UTHealth Houston Psychiatry Grand Rounds
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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 |  |
| May 26 | Brandi Karnes, MD; Vineeth John, MD, MBA; Taiwo Babatope, MD, MBA, MPH; Andrea Taylor, PhD; Deborah Pearson, PhD; Martin Huynh, MD; Dean Atkinson, MD; Anilkumar Pillai, PhD; Olaniyi Olayinka, MD; Nubia Lluberes, MD, CCHP-MH; Joao de Quevedo, MD, PhD Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences McGovern Medical School | UTHealth Houston GME Update |
| Date | Name and Topic | Image |
|---|---|---|
| September 9 | Rahn Bailey, MD UTHealth Houston Faculty Development/ Career Advancement |  |
| September 16 | Jennifer Bahrman, PhD Assistant Professor UTHealth Houston Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Student Mental Health |  |
| September 23 | Rajesh Kumar Kana, PhD Marilyn Williams Elmore & John Durr Elmore Endowed Professor of Psychology University of Alabama Brain Connectivity and Plasticity Underlying Social Communication in Autism |  |
| September 30 | Igor Galynker, MD Professor Department of Psychiatry Director of the Suicide Prevention Research Lab and Zirinsky Center for Bipolar Disorder Mount Sinai Beth Israel Suicide Prevention (John S. Dunn Lecture) |  |
| October | ||
| October 7 | Paul Appelbaum, MD Professor Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry University of Massachusetts Medical School Ethical Issues in Clinical Psychedelics |  |
| October 14 | Marina Zhukova, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Eating Disorders |  |
| October 21 | ||
| October 28 | Simon Rego, PsyD Associate Professor, Chief of Psychology Montefiore Medical Center UTHealth Houston Leadership Skills, (John S. Dunn Lecture) |  |
| November | ||
| November 4 | Carla Danielson, PhD Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Medical University of South Carolina Trauma-Exposed Adolescents (cooper Lectureship) |  |
| November 11 | ||
| November 18 | ||
| November 25 | Thanksgiving, No grand Rounds! | |
| December | ||
| December 2 | Lily Brown, PhD Associate Professor, Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine Medical University of Pennsylvania Anxiety |  |
| December 9 | Bonita Sur, PhD Assistant Professor, Assistant Director, Psych-Oncology Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Psych Oncology |  |
| December 16 | Micah Knobles, MD Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston An Introduction to Applications of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Medical Settings |  |
| December 23-December 30 | Christmas Break, No Grand Rounds! | |
| January 2027 | ||
| January 6 | Katrina Rufino, PhD Professor Psychiatry University of Houston Assessment and Treatment of Suicide |  |
| January 13 | Michelle Patriquin, PhD, ABPP Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston AI In Health Care |  |
| January 20 | Kristin Kostick, PhD Assistant Professor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Baylor College of Medicine Ethics (Guynn Lectureship) |  |
| January 27 | Evan Kleiman, PhD Associate Professor Psychology Rutgers University Suicide Prevention Using AI |  |
| February | ||
| February 3 | Kelly Dunn, PhD, MBAProfessor Psychiatry and Neurobiology University of Maryland School of Nursing Opioid Research (John S. Dunn Lecture) |  |
| February 10 | TBA | |
| February 17 | TBA | |
| February 24 | TBA | |
| March | ||
| March 3 | Alia Warner, PhD, ABPP Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UTHealth Houston Schizophrenia |  |
| March 10 | Amanda Gilmore, PhD Professor Department of Health Policy & Behavioral School, School of Public Health Georgia State University Alcohol and Sexual Violence Prevention |  |
| March 17 | Robert Boland, PhD Professor and Vice Chair Menninger Department of Psychiatry Baylor College of Medicine Clinical Care, Research, and Education |  |
| March 24 | Philip C. Kendall, PhD Professor, Director of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. College of Liberal Arts Temple University Anxiety Disorders |  |
| March 31 | Benjamin Goldstein, MD, PhD Professor, Vice Chair, Research Centre for Addiction & Mental Health University of Toronto World Bipolar Day |  |
| April | ||
| April 7 | Lindsay Orchowski, PhD Professor of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University Health Violence Prevention |  |
| April 14 | Jacqueline Hobbs, MD, PhD Professor, Director, Psychiatry Residency Program University of Washington Patient Safety; History of Quality Improvement |  |
| April 21 | Samantha Melzer-Brody, MD, MPH Executive Dean University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine Women's Mental Health |  |
| April 28 | Allison Harvey, PhD Professor, Director of The Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic in the Department of Psychology UC Berkeley Sleep Disorders in Mental Illness |  |
| May | ||
| May 5 | No grand rounds! | |
| May 12 | Jeffery Matthews, MD UC Berkeley Forensic Psychiatry | |
| May 19 | J. Chase Findley, MD, Gregory Hestla, MD UTHealth Houston Medical Student Education Update |  |
| May 26 | Vineeth John, MD, MBA, Taiwo Babatope, MD, MPH, MBA, DFAACAP, João L. de Quevedo, MD, PhD, Martin Huynh, MD Brandi Karnes, MD, Nubia G. Lluberes Rincon, MD CCHP-MH FAPA, Olaniyi Olayinka, MD, MPH, Deborah A. Pearson, PhD, Anilkumar Pillai, PhD, Andrea N. Taylor, PhD UTHealth Houston Medical Student Education Update | |
| June | ||
| June 2 | TBD |