GWU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
RESEARCH FACULTY ALUMNI AND GIVING
 

GRAND ROUNDS

2007-2008 GRAND ROUNDS SCHEDULE
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
THURSDAY, 10:30-NOON
GWU HOSPITAL AUDITORIUM: LOWER LEVEL

 

JJanuary 3
Title: When Religion Does Harm -- How Do I Respond as a Clinician?
Speaker: James L. Griffith, MD
Director of Residency Training Program in Psychiatry
Director, Psychiatric Consultation Service
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center



January 10
Title: What Would You Want In DSM-V?
Speaker: Roger Peele, MD
Chief Psychiatrist, Montgomery County Government (Rockville,Maryland)
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


January 17
Title: Neuroendocrine Stress Response in Inflammatory, Autoimmune and Infectious Disease
Speaker:  Esther Sternberg, MD
Director, Integrative Neural Immune Program
Chief, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior
National Institute of Mental Health/National Institutes of Health


January 24
Title: Morbidity and Mortality Case Conference
Speaker: Dan Podell, MD, PGY-III
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


January 31
Title: The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda
Speaker: Jerrold M Post, MD
Director, Political Psychology Program
Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology, and International Affairs
Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University


February 7
Title: The State of Psychiatric Care in Iraq: Challenges and Hope in a Conflict Zone
Speaker: Amir A. Afkhami, MD, PhD
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University Medical Center


February 14
Title: PGY-II Grand Rounds: Psychodermatology
Speaker: Sashi Putchakayala, MD, PGY-II
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: TBA


February 21
Title: The Magnitude and Prevention of College Age and Underage Drinking
Speaker: Ralph Hingson, ScD
Director, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health


February 28
Title: Understanding the Development of Psychopathology: NIMH-Supported Research and Resources
Speaker: Molly Oliveri, PhD
Director, Division of Developmental Translational Research
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health


March 6
Title: Developing Novel Medications for Alcohol Dependence - Lessons from Neurobiology
Speaker: Markus Heilig, MD, PhD
Chief, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health


March 13
Title:   PGY-II Grand Rounds:   Childhood Onset Schizophrenia
Speaker: Rebecca Alvarez, MD, PGY-II
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: Nitin Gogtay, MD
Staff Clinician
Child Psychiatry Branch
NIMH/NIH


March 20
Title: PGY-II Grand Rounds:   Substance Abuse and Pregnancy
Speaker: Megan Dankovich, MD, PGY-II
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences 
George Washington University Medical Center  
Discussant: Suena Huang, MD 
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


March 27
Title: PGY-II Grand Rounds:   Systems Integration Reform in Mental Health
Speaker: Carolyn Howell, MD, PGY-II
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences 
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussants: Roger Peele, MD 
Chief Psychiatrist, Montgomery County Government (Rockville,Maryland)
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


April 3
Title: Promotion of Resilience of Parentally-Bereaved Children: Six-Year
Follow-Up of the Effects of the Family Bereavement Program
Speaker: Irwin Sandler, PhD
Welling Visiting Professor, George Washington University
Regent's Professor of Psychology
Director, Prevention Research Center
Arizona State University 


April 10
Title: The 28th Annual Daniel S. Prager, MD Lectureship in Psychoanalytic Psychiatry:
Living with the Enemy: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Severely Mentally Ill
Speaker: Steven T. Levy, MD 
Chief of Psychiatry, Grady Health System
Bernard C. Holland Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 


April 17
Title: PGY-II Grand Rounds:   Understanding Your Middle Eastern Muslim Patient
Speaker:   Ayesha Mian, MD
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant:   Amir Afkhami, MD, PhD
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University Medical Center


April 24
Title: PGY-II Grand Rounds:   Pediatric PTSD - A Case Presentation
Speaker: Lynelle Johnson, MD, PGY-II
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: Jean Thomas, MD, MSW
Director, Infant and Toddler Clinic
Co-director, Infant and Toddler Mental Health Program
Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Children's National Medical Center
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


May 1
Title: PGY-II Grand Rounds
Speaker: Eindra Khin Khin, MD, PGY-II
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: TBA 


May 8
Title: APA ANNUAL MEETING - NO GRAND ROUNDS


May 15
Title: C/L Case Conference  
Speaker: James Griffith, MD
Director of Residency Training Program in Psychiatry
Director, Psychiatric Consultation Service
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences 
George Washington University Medical Center
Lorenzo Norris, MD
Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Consult Liaison Psychiatrist
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


May 22
Title: Inpatient/Emergency Psychiatry Morbidity and Mortality Conference
Speaker: Anton Trinidad, MD
Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry Services
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center 
Charles Samenow, MD
Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center


May 29
Title: PGY-III Case Conference
Speaker:   Lydia Sit, MD, PGY-III
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: TBA


June 5
Title: DEPARTMENTAL MEETING AND PHOTO


June 12
Title: PGY-III Case Conference
Speaker: Binit Shah, MD, PGY-III
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: TBA


June 19
Title: PGY-III Case Conference
Speaker: Khalil Johnson, MD, PGY-III
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: TBA   


June 26
Title: PGY-III Case Conference
Speaker: Anjuli Jindal, MD, PGY-III 
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University Medical Center
Discussant: TBA

 

ACCREDITATION
The George Washington University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing education for physicians. The George Washington University Medical Center takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

CME CREDIT
The George Washington University Medical Center designates this continuing medical education activity for 1 credit in Category 1 of the Physicians’ Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

CME certificates will not be issued on an activity-by-activity basis. However, a transcript of CME credits earned through GW grand rounds may be requested from the Office of Continuing Education in the Health Professions by calling 994-4285.

 


 
   
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