Grand Rounds Schedule

Chairman’s Conference Room, D-203
671 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ
Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am

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Title: Advances in Understanding and Treating ADHD in Children and Youth
Date: September 3, 2009
Speaker: Theodore Petti, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: Emotional Dysregulation and Vulnerability to Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Date: September 10, 2009
Speaker: Marsha E. Bates, PhD
Research Professor and Director Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Center of Alcohol Studies
Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: First Episode Psychosis – A Clinical Update
Date: October 1, 2009
Speaker: Oliver Freudenreich, MD
Director, MGH First Episode and Early Psychosis Program
Freedom Trail Clinic
Boston, Massachusetts

Title: Culturally Sensitive Assessment and Intervention with African American Patients
Date: October 8, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Paulette Hines
UBHC
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: A Metabolic Anterior Limbic Model of Bipolar Disorder
Date: November 5, 2009
Speaker: Stephen M. Strakowski, MD
The Stanley and Mickey Kaplan Professor and Chair of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering
Director, UCCOM Center for Imaging Research
Cincinnati, Ohio

Title : Psychiatry and Public Health: Using Information Technology to Engage
and Effect Behavior in Consumers of Psychiatric Care
Date: November 12, 2009
Speaker: Hyong Un, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Aetna Behavioral Health Care
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Title: Negative Reinforcement in Drug Motivation
Date: December 3, 2009
Speaker: Danielle McCarthy, PhD
Department of Psychology
Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: Losing a Patient to Suicide
Date: December 10, 2009
Speakers: Michael Myers, MD
Vice-Chair Medical Education and Director of Training
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York

Carla Fine, M.S.
Author
New York, New York

Title: Alcohol Withdrawal in the General Medical Hospital: Issues of Detection and Management
Date: January 7, 2010
Speakers: Anthony Tobia, MD
Associate Director, Psychiatry Residency Program
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, NJ

Suzanne Doubrava, MD
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: Adolescent Parricide and Psychopathy
Date: January 14, 2010
Speaker: Wade Myers, MD
Professor and Chief
Division of Forensic Psychiatry
University of South Florida
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Tampa, Florida

Title: Prospective Study of Non-Specific Physical Symptoms in Soldiers Deploying to Combat
Date: February 4, 2010
Speaker: Karen Quigley, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

Title: Bipolar Disorder and Suicidal Behavior
Date: February 11, 2010
Speaker: Maria A. Oquendo, MD
Vice Chair for Education
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute
New York, New York

Title: TBA
Date: March 4, 2010
Speaker: Psychology Intern

Title: Antidepressant Adherence among Latinos: A Motivational Interviewing Approach
Date: March 11, 2010
Speaker: Alejandro Interian, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: TBA
Date: April 1, 2010
Speaker: Psychiatry Resident
UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: Applying Psychoimmunology to the Practice of Psychiatry
Date: April 8, 2010
Speaker: Robert Bransfield, MD
Private Practice
Red Bank, New Jersey

Title: TBA
Date: May 6, 2010
Speaker: Child Fellow
UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: TBA
Date: May 13, 2010
Speaker: Psychiatry Resident
UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

Title: Psychophysiological Approach for the Treatment of Somatic Symptoms
Date: June 3, 2010
Speaker: Maria Karavidas, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School

Title: Introduction of the Recovery Model to a Large Psychiatric Rehabilitation Organization: A Multiple Baseline Study of Effects on Hospitalization Rate and on Staff and Consumer Behavior
Date: June 10, 2010
Speaker: Igor Malinovsky
Supervising Mental Health Specialist
Division of Schizophrenia Research
University Behavioral Health Care
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

DISCUSSANT: Steve Silverstein, PhD
Director, Division of Schizophrenia Research
University Behavorial Health Care
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey

DISCUSSANT: Paul Lehrer, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, New Jersey