FALL 2009
Tuesdays | 12 NOON | Meyer 1-191
| DATE | PRESENTER | AFFILIATIONS | TOPIC |
| Sept. 8 | Col. Elsbeth C. Ritchie, M.D., M.P.H. | Director, Behavioral Health Proponency, Office of Army The Surgeon General | From the Combat Front to the Home Front and Back Again |
| 15 | Donald M. Steinwachs, Ph.D. | Professor and Interim Director, JH Institute of Policy Studies, Director Health Services Research and Development Center, JHSPH | Paying for Inpatient Psychiatric Care: Problems and Possible Solutions |
| 22 | Fritz A. Henn, Ph.D., M.D. | Senior Scientist and Associate Lab Director for Life Sciences, Brookhaven National Lab, Professor, Mount SInai School of Medicine | Circuits and Cells: Towards a New Pathophiology of Depression |
| 29 | Stephen J. Suomi, Ph.D. | Chief, Lab of Comparative Ethology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS | Risk, Resilience, and Gene X Environment Interactions in Primates |
| Oct 6 | Alan Brown, M.D., M.P.H. | Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, Director, Unit in Birth Cohort Studies, Division of Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute | Early developmental risk factors for schizophrenia |
| 13 | Child Psychiatry | ||
| 20 | Jane M. Murphy, Ph.D. | Professor of Psychiatry MGH and Harvard Medical School, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health | Adolf Meyer and the Stirling County Study |
| 27 | Child Psychiatry | ||
| Nov 3 | Child Psychiatry | ||
| 10 | Adam Spira, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health | Late-Life Sleep Disturbance: Associations with Cognition and Function |
| 17 | Carol Tamminga, M.D. | Professor of Psychiatry, Interim Chair of Psychiatry, Chief, Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Allene Rubin Lecture- Learning and Memory Mechanisms in Schizophrenia |
| 24 | Dale M. Needham, FCS, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medical Director, Critical Care Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Program, JHU | Improving Delirium in the ICU: From Research to Routine Practice |
| Dec 1 | Tamar Mendelson, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | The influence of maternal psychological factors on fetal hemodynamics |
| 8 | Randolph Nesse, M.D. | Research Professor, ISR Director, Evolution and Human Adaptation Program,University of Michigan | "Why Does Depression Exist at all? What Evolution Offers to Research on Emotional Disorders" |
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| Jan 5 | Daniel Buysse, M.D. | Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Clinical Neuroscience Research Center | |
| 12 | Alena Savonenko, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Pathology and Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Departments of Pathology, Neurology, Division of Neuropathology | The Role of BACE1 in Pathological Mechanims Related to Alzheimer's Disease and Schizophrenia |
| 19 | Benjamin Druss, M.D., M.P.H. | Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University | Improving Health and Healthcare for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses |
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| 16 | Allison Harvey, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Director, Sleep and Psychological Disorders Laboratory | Emotion, Sleep and Circadian Function in Bipolar Disorder |
| 23 | Arturas Petronis | ||
| 30 | Ed Marcantonio | Harvard University | |
| April 6 | Bita Moghaddam, PhD. | Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh | Thinking Differently about Schizophrenia |
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| 27 | Irvin Yalom | Frank Lecture | |
| May 4 | Elisabeth Binder, M.D., Ph.D. | Head Research Group Molecular Genetics of Depression, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine | The Glucocorticoid Receptor-regulating Co-chaperone FKBP5: A Common Candidate Gene for Stress-related Psychiatric Disorders? |
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