Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior Grand Rounds

September 4

An Invisible Disease: Headache Psychiatry Pearls, Myths, & Stigmata

Lex Denysenko, MD, FACLP
Program Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

September 11

Performance & Age-Based Testing     

James Ellison, MD
Geriatric Psychiatrist
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital/Jefferson Health

September 18

Making Sense of Maas: Understanding the Expanded Duty to Warn in Pennsylvania    

Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA 
Medical Director, resolve Crisis Services of UPMC
Western Psychiatric Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry and Law
University of Pittsburgh  

September 25

No Grand Rounds

Reflections on Global Mental Health

Sam O. Okpaku MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
President & Founder, Center for Health, Culture and Society

Using technology to better understand, predict, and prevent
suicidal thoughts and behaviors

Evan M. Kleiman, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychology, and Health Behavior, Society, & Policy 
School of Public Health, Rutgers University

Psychiatric Rating Scales: Objective Data in a World of Subjectivity

Danielle Kelly, DO
Medical Director of Outpatient Services
Clinical Assistant Professor

Game Changing Approach for Delirium: Bispectral EEG Device
Development and Epigenetic Investigation of Pathophysiology

Gen Shinozaki, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, General Psychiatry & Adult Psychology
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 
Stanford University/Stanford University Medical Center

The Anatomy of Shame: Causes, Effects, and Strategies for
Emotional Recovery

James Hagenbaugh, PsyD
Director, Student Counseling Center
Clinical Associate Professor 

DSM-5-TR Outline for Cultural Formulation and Cultural Formulation Interview:
Tools for Culturally/Structurally Competent Care

Francis Lu, MD, DLFAPA
Luke and Grace Kim Endowed Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Emeritus
Director of Cultural Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and
Associate Chair for Medical Student Education 
UC Davis Health System/UC Davis School of Medicine

Telepsychiatry and Rural Mental Health

Richard Merkel, Jr., MD, PhD 
Professor and Director of Outreach
Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
University of Virginia 

Drug Use, Sexual Compulsion, and the Internet: The Reemergence of Crystal Meth
Use Among Gay Men and In Youths

Jose Vito, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry N
YU Grossman School of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center/NYU Langone Health
Forensic Telepsychiatrist Office of Mental Health, State of New York

Morbidity and Mortality Conferences 1 & 2

Karuna Poddar, MD, MS + PGY2 Residents

Nurturing Minds, Shaping Futures: Building Baby Brains in Remote Pakistan

Muhammad Zeshan, MD 
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Rutgers NJMS, Newark, New Jersey, USA

The Silent Epidemic: Understanding and Addressing Modern-Age Loneliness

Vihasa Govada, MD and Nicolette Lee, MD
PGY4 Psychiatry Residents

Cultural Consultation: a Clinician’s Journey Applying Cultural Formulation

Jazwant Guzder, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Professor(ret),  Divisions of Child Psychiatry & Social and Cultural Psychiatry
McGill University

Decoding the Standard of Care

Kirlan Kathe, MD, and Rosa Peverini, MD
PGY4 Psychiatry Residents

Reality redefined: Exploring virtual frontiers in psychiatry

Hyowon Choi, MD, PhD, and Timothy DeRosa, MD
2nd-Year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

Evolving Substance Use Trends in Pennsylvania: Patterns, Prevalence and
the Impact of the Opioid Epidemic

Stanley Nkemjika, MD, MPH and Vaibhav Vyas, MD
Addiction Psychiatry Fellows

Management of Hypersomnia and Mood Disorders

Henry Ideker, MD & Stephan White, MD
Sleep Medicine Fellows

Why Patients Lie: Non-Pathological Fibs and Deception Syndromes in the Hospital Setting 

Scott Beach, MD, Associate Professor 
& Nicholas Kontos, MD, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry 
Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Climate Change and Mental Health 

Elizabeth Pinsky, MD
Assistant Professor 
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Mass General Hospital for Children/Harvard Medical School 

AI’s Role in Medicine: Capabilities, Shortcomings, and What’s Next

Daniel Ezzo, MD, and Salman Alam, DO
PGY4 Psychiatry Residents