By Nicholas Roznovsky
The 2016-2017 UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series will kick off on Tuesday, September 13 with a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Series event featuring the University of Pittsburgh’s Neal D. Ryan, MD. His presentation, "The Child Anxiety Treatment Study (CATS)," will be the first of 27 Grand Rounds lectures over the next ten months featuring insights from top clinicians, researchers, and educators from across the nation and around the globe.
Highlights from the upcoming series include the 2016 Evelyn Lee Visiting Scholar Lecture in Cultural Competence and Diversity with USC's Elyn R. Saks, JD, PhD (October 4), the 2017 Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Visiting Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (March 21), and presentations by the recipients of the department's fourth annual UCSF Psychiatry Trainee Research Awards (April 4 and May 16). Additional speakers in the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Series include:
- William S. Breitbart, MD (March 14)
- Lisa B. Dixon, MD, MPH (February 14)
- Joan Luby, MD (January 10)
- Steven McCarroll, PhD (June 13)
- Patrick McGorry AO, MD, PhD (November 8)
- Ismene Leonida Petrakis (April 11)
- Laura Roberts, MD, MA (May 9)
- Lloyd I. Sederer, MD (November 15)
- Beth Stevens, PhD (October 11)
- Pierre N. Tariot, MD (December 13)
The Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (course number MGR17074) seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care; introduce clinicians to recent advances in medical care; provide updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of psychiatry to the broader community. Events are held on Tuesday mornings from 8 - 9:30 a.m. on the UCSF Parnassus campus and are for medical professional audience members only. For a full listing of this year’s Grand Rounds events, visit psych.ucsf.edu/grandrounds.
About UCSF Psychiatry
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service.
UCSF Psychiatry conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including UCSF campuses at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, and Laurel Heights, the UCSF Medical Center at Mt. Zion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and UCSF Fresno.
About the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, established by the extraordinary generosity of Joan and Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, brings together world-class researchers with top-ranked physicians to solve some of the most complex challenges in the human brain.
The UCSF Weill Institute leverages UCSF’s unrivaled bench-to-bedside excellence in the neurosciences. It unites three UCSF departments—Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurological Surgery—that are highly esteemed for both patient care and research, as well as the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a cross-disciplinary alliance of nearly 100 UCSF faculty members from 15 basic-science departments, as well as the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, a multidisciplinary research center focused on finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.
About UCSF
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise. It also includes UCSF Health, which comprises two top-ranked hospitals, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, and other partner and affiliated hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the Bay Area.
