MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

 

Psychiatry Grand Rounds

 

 

Welcome!

 

Psychiatry Grand Rounds are held on

 

Thursdays, 12:00 – 1:00 PM, ETHER DOME

 

This web page is organized by

1)       The current Grand Rounds talk of the week,

2)       The upcoming or current Neuroscience Grand Rounds talk of the month,

3)   The Psychiatry Grand Rounds Schedule – September through December 2009

 

             

                                                                 

                                            Psychiatry Grand Rounds – November 12, 2009

 

                                                Ether Dome – Bulfinch 4 12:00-1:00 PM

 

                           The following presentation is a change in the Grand Rounds schedule for this

                           week due to recent events.  The Blake 11 Case Conference will be rescheduled.

 

                                                    “Managing Acute Trauma Reactions”

 

                                      Presented by members of the MGH Center for Anxiety and

                                                            Traumatic Stress Disorders

                          

                                                               Luana Marques, Ph.D.

                                                                Sharon Sung, Ph.D.

                                                                 Mark Pollack, M.D.

                                                           Naomi Simon, M.D., M.Sc.

                          

                                      http://www2.massgeneral.org/allpsych/GrandRounds/GrandRounds_home.htm

 

            

Also, please note the Neuroscience Grand Rounds.  Neuroscience Grand Rounds will occur the first Thursday of the month from 8:30 – 9:30 AM in the Ether Dome.  Neuroscience Grand Rounds are a combined lecture series organized by the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychiatry. 

 

                                   Neuroscience Grand Rounds

                                                          (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry)

 

 

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                                          Thursday December 3, 2009 – Ether Dome, Bulfinch 4 8:30 – 9:30 A.M.

 

Combined Neuroscience (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry) Grand Rounds

 

                                                        “How Does Behavior Happen? A Work in Progress”

 

                                                                           Edward A. Kravitz, Ph.D.

                                                       George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology

                                                                          Harvard Medical School

 

    

                                           

 

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

Psychiatry Grand Rounds

                             SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2009

Thursdays 12:00 – 1:00 PM

ETHER DOME

 

 

September 3

Neuroscience Combined Grand Rounds

Neurology

 

 

An Autopsy was Performed: Case Records from MGH Neuropathology

Matthew P. Frosch, M.D., Ph.D.

MGH Department of Neuropathology

Associate Professor of Pathology

Harvard Medical School

 

Atul Maheshwari, M.D.

MGH Department of Neurology

Clinical Fellow in Neurology

Harvard Medical School

 

Mikael L. Rinne, M.D., Ph.D.

MGH Department of Neurology

Clinical Fellow in Neurology

Harvard Medical School

 

 

September 10

 

 

 

Departmental Meeting

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, M.D.

Psychiatrist- in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital

Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

September 17

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psychiatric Neuroimaging: Essentials, Pitfalls and Promises

Randy L. Gollub, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Director of the Imaging Consortium

Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School

 

September 24

Clinical Case Conference

“A 60 year old man with agitation”

Theodore A. Stern, M.D.

Chief, The Avery D. Weisman, M.D. Psychiatry Consultation Service

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

Participants: Anne F. Gross, M.D., Christopher M. Celano, M.D.

Oliver Freudenreich, M.D., Jeff C. Huffman, M.D., Nicholas J. Kontos, M.D., Shamim H . Nejad, M.D., B. Taylor Thompson, M.D.

 

 

 

October 1

Neuroscience Combined Grand Rounds

Neurosurgery

 

 

Management of the Pineal Region Tumors

Jeffrey N. Bruce, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Edgar M. Housepian Professor of Neurological Surgery

Director, Bartoli Brain Tumor Research Laboratory

Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center

Columbia University Medical Center

 

October 1

 

 

 

Why Antidepressants are not Antidepressants: Commentary and Discussion

S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., MPH

Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine

Director,  Mood Disorders Program

Tufts Medical Center

 

 

October 8

 

 

The Neuropsychiatry of Catatonia and its Meaning – An MGH Story

Gregory L. Fricchione, M.D.

Associate Chief of Psychiatry

Director, Division of Psychiatry and Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School

 

 

October 15

 

20 Years in Pursuit of New Treatments in Schizophrenia

Donald C. Goff, M.D.

Director, MGH Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program

Professor of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School

 

 

October 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 29

 

 

In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her

Mother’s Suicide

Nancy Rappaport, M.D.

Mental Health Director, Teen Health Center

Cambridge Hospital

Director of School Based Programs, Division of Child Psychiatry,

Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Footprints of Infant Temperament and Anxiety in the Adult Brain

Carl E. Schwartz, M.D.

Director, Developmental Neuroimaging & Psychopathology Laboratory

Psychiatric Neuroscience Program

Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

November 5

Neuroscience Combined Grand Rounds

Neurosurgery

CANCELLED

 

 

 

 

November 5

 

 

DSM-V in Process: Lessons from the Neurocognitive and Eating Disorders Workgroups

Deborah Blacker, M.D., ScD

Assistant Vice Chair for Research

Director, Gerontology Research Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School

 

Anne E. Becker, M.D.

Director, Eating Disorders Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Social Medicine

Harvard Medical School

 

November 12

 

Managing Acute Trauma Reactions

Presented by Members of the MGH Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders

Luana Marques, Ph.D.

Sharon Sung, Ph.D.

Mark Pollack, M.D.

Naomi Simon, M.D., M.Sc.

 

November 19

 

The Global Burden of Mental Illness and the Response of the World Psychiatric Association

George Christodoulou, M.D.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens

Former Director, Department of Social Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Athens

Director, Hellenic Center of Mental Health and Research, Athens

President of the Psychiatric Association of Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Honorary President of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association

 

November 26

 

Cancelled – Thanksgiving Holiday

 

 

December 3

How Does Behavior Happen? A Work in Progress

Neuroscience Combined Grand Rounds

Psychiatry

Edward A. Kravitz, Ph.D.

George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology

Harvard Medical School

 

 

December 10

Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

Nancy L. Etcoff, Ph.D.

Clinical Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School

 

 

December 17

 

 

To be announced

New England Journal Clinical Pathological Conference

 

 

December 24

 

Grand Rounds Cancelled

 

 

December 31

Grand Rounds Cancelled

 

 

Claire G. O’Brien

Department of Psychiatry

15 Parkman Street, WAC 812

Boston, MA 02114