2017 Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Living High and Feeling Low: Altitude Suicide, and Depression

Presented on 12/20/17 by Brent Kious, MD, Phd | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah | 

Social Relationships & Cardiovascular Risk: The Importance of Considering Both Positivity and Negativity in Relationships

Presented on 12/06/17 by Bert Uchino, PhD | Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Utah |

Turning your Clinical, Administrative, and Educational Activities into Scholarship

Presented on 11/15/17 by Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH | Professor of Pediatrics & Associate Dean for Faculty Developments, School of Medicine, University of Utah | Director and Fellow, Utah Academy of Health Science Educators, University of Utah Health

Current Issues in Psychiatric Genetics

Presented on 11/01/17 by Kenneth Kendler, MD | Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University |

Understanding the Drivers of Potentially Inappropriate Medicare Care for Patients with Dementia

Presented on 10/18/17 by Donovan Maust, MD, MS | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan | Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Anne Arbor Healthcare System |

The Transgenerational Transmission of Depressive Illness: Biological Vulnerability, Scars, and Resilience

Untangled: Breaking the Cycle (of Refugee Trauma) and Caring for the Caregiver

Presented on 05/17/17 by Omar Reda, MD, Psychiatrist for the Providence Health System in Portland, Oregon. 

Influence of Pathological Brain Aging on Late-Life Depression Outcomes

Presented on 05/03/17 by Warren D. Taylor, MD, MHSc, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Introduced by Sara Weisenbach, PhD.

Using the Neuroscience of Willpower to Treat Addition

Presented on 04/19/17 by Peter W. Kalivas, PhD, Professor & Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at the Medical University of South C Carolina. Introduced by Tiffany Love, PhD.

From Patches to PAMS: Novel Treatment Development for Late Life Cognitive Disorders

Presented on 03/01/17 by Paul Newhouse, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, & Medicine, Jim Turner Chair in Cognitive Disorders, Director of Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine, Director of Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Physician-Scientist at VA-TVHS GRECC.

Older Adult Suicide in the U.S.: Why are “white” men so vulnerable?

Presented on 02/15/17 by Silvia Sara Canetto, PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University. Introduced by Sara Weisenbach, PhD. 

Individual Differences in Reward Neurocircuitry: Toward Personalized Interventions for Mood Disorders

Presented on 02/01/2017 by Brian J. Mickey, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Introduced by Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD, PhD. 

Neuroimaging Mechanisms of Overlap Between Alcoholism and Bipolar Disorder

The Pre-Symptomatic Prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Presented on 01/04/17 by John Pruett, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry - Division of Child and Adolescent, Radiology - Mallinckrodt Institute Psychological & Brain Sciences.