Psychiatry Research Conference

FALL 2012 | SPRING 2013
Tuesdays | 12 NOON | Meyer 1-191

DATE	PRESENTER	AFFILIATIONS	TOPIC
Sept 4	Adam Kaplin, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa	Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, JHU	SCUBA, Spinal Rehabilitation and Suicidality: the Serotonin Connection
11	Markus Heilig, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Gwenn Smith	Clinical Director, NIAAA & NIDA	Personalized Approaches to The Treatment of Alcohol Addiction
18	Rene Kahn Host: Akira Sawa	Department of Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands	Why Kraepelin was Right: Schizophrenia as Dementia Praecox
25	Luigi Ferrucci, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Gwenn Smith	NIA Scientific Director, Chief, Longitudinal Studies Section	Exploring the Phenotypes of Aging: A New Look to Chronic Diseases
Oct 2	George R. Uhl, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Gwenn Smith	Chief and Senior Investigator, HHS/NIH/IRP/NIDA Molecular Neurobiology Branch Adjunct Associate Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience JHU,SOM	Addiction Genetics and The Brain: A PostGWAS Perspective From Human Datasets and Mouse Models
9	Kelly Dunn, Ph.D. Host: Andy Tompkins	Instructor, BPRU, Department of Psychiatry - Bayview JHU	Using Incentives to Promote Behavior Change
16	Carlos Zarate, M.D. Host: Jennifer Payne	Chief of Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the NIMH	An Update on the Neurobiology of Depression & the Development of Rapid-Acting Antidepressants and Biomarkers of Response
23	Dr Ramin Mojtabai, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Host: Joe Bienvenu	Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health	Antidepressants and Diabetes: Is There a Link?
30	CANCELLED - University Closed
Nov 6	Francis S. Y. Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro	Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College	Role of Neurotrophins in Fear-Related Learning Across Development
13	David Schretlen, PH.D. Host: Joe Bienvenu	Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences-Medical Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University, SOM	Can Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improve Cognitive Functioning in Schizophrenia?
20	Tomas R. Guilarte, Ph.D. Host: Mikhail Pletnikov	Leon Hess Professor & Chairman, Director, NIEHS Training Grant, Deputy Director, NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University	Toxins & Genes: Gene-environment interactions in Schizophrenia
27	Rita Valentino, Ph.D. Host:Kellie Tamashiro	Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Sex Biased Stress Signaling
Dec 4	Donna Strobino, Ph.D. and Pamela Surkan Host:Jennifer Payne	Professor, Womens Childrens Health Policy Ctr, School of Public Health, Assistant Professor , Social and Behavioral Sciences SBI, School of Public Health	Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Young Children’s Growth
11	Gail Daumit, M.D., M.H.S. Host: Akira Sawa	Associate Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management and Mental Health JHMI Division of General Internal Medicine Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research Co-Chair, Institutional Review Board	Effectiveness of a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention in Persons with Serious Mental illness: Results of the ACHIEVE Trial
18	Frederick Lenz M.D. Host: Joe Bienvenu	Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Analysis of Circuits Subserving Fear and Anxiety as Studied by Neuronal Activity in Humans
25	HOLIDAY	No Seminar	-
Jan 1	HOLIDAY	No Seminar	-
8	Annie Umbricht, M.D. Host: Andy Tompkins	Assistant Professor, Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Topiramate for cocaine dependence in methadone maintenance
15	Robert Randolph Edwards, Ph.D. Host: Andy Tompkins	Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, BWH Pain Management Center	The Biopsychosocial Model of Pain in action: Risk factors for misuse of prescription opioids among chronic pain patients
22	Samer Hattar, Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa	Associate Professor of Biology , Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology	Aberrant Light Exposure Directly Impairs Mood and Learning Through Atypical Retinal Photoreceptors
29	Wayne Katon M.D. Host: Joe Bienvenu	Professor, Vice-Chair, Director of Division of Health Services and Psychiatric Epidemiology, University of Washington Medical School	A Multicondition Collaborative Care Intervention: Meeting the Triple Aim of Health Reform
Feb 5	John Bridges Ph. D. Host:Jennifer Payne	Associate Professor, Director, MHS in Health Economics, Founding Editor, The Patient , Scientific Committee Chair, CAHC 2012, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	Measuring the Priorities and Treatment Preferences of Parents with a Child Diagnosed with ADHD Using Best-worst Scaling
12	Guo-li Ming, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro	Professor, Institute For Cell Engineering, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Regulation of Neural Development by Risk Genes for Mental Disorders
19	Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Ph.D. Host: Shauna Reinblatt	Associate Professor, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Director, Developmental Research Laboratory on Eating and Weight Behaviors, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences	Obesity and Disinhibited Eating Behaviors in Youth
26	Kelly Posner, Ph. D. Host: Holly Wilcox	Director, Center for Suicide Risk Assessment Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute	On the Road to Prevention: The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
Mar 5	Bruce Turetsky, M.D. Host: Akira Sawa	Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania	Olfactory Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: A Model System to Investigate Developmental Neuropathology
12	Keri Martinowich, Ph.D. Host:Jennifer Payne	Investigator, Lieber Institute for Brain Development	Interaction between BDNF and Social Environment in Brain Physiology and Behavior
19	William M. Byne, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Andy Tompkins	Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York	Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder
26	Dwight Bergles, Ph.D. Host: Mikhail Pletnikov	Professor, Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine	Fate and Function of Glial Progenitors in the Mammalian CNS
Apr 2	Monique Ernst, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Gwenn Smith	Head of Neurodevelopment of Reward Systems, Emotional Development and Affective Neuroscience Branch (EDAN), National Institute of Mental Health / NIH / DHHS	Choreography of brain functions across adolescence
9	Katherine Phillips, M.D. Host: Joe Bienvenu	Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University	Body Dysmorphic Disorder:Understanding and Treating an Underrecognized Disorder
16	Ted Abel, Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa	Brush Family Professor of Biology Director - Biological Basis of Behavior Program, University of Pennsylvania	Sleep and Memory: The Cellular and Molecular Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Hippocampal Function
23	Samantha E Meltzer-Brody, M.D. Host: Jennifer Payne	Associate Professor and Director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Program, UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders	Genetic and Biomarker Insights into Postpartum Depression
30	Clifford B. Saper, M.D., Ph.D. Host:Kellie Tamashiro	James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Head of the Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Hypothalamic Regulation of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
May 7	John M. Oldham, M.D. Host: Geetha Jayaram	Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff The Menninger Clinic, Professor and Executive Vice Chair Menninger Department of Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences	Personality Disorders and DSM-5
14	James Knierim, PhD. Host: Ray DePaulo	Associate Professor, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University	Memory Formation in the Rat Hippocampal Formation: Spatial and Nonspatial Processing
21	Erin Winstanley, PhD, Host: Andy Tompkins	Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Director of Services Research & Dissemination at Ohio Valley Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network.	Naloxone to Prevent Opioid Overdose Death
28	Colm Cunningham, Ph.D. Host: Karin Neufeld	Research Lecturer, Welcome Trust Scholar, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin	Can We Make Animal Models of Delirium?