About Our Grand Rounds
The Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series presents local and nationally-renowned clinicians, researchers, and educators. Grand Rounds typically occur the first and third Wednesday of each month, September 2023 through May 2024.
Lectures may be presented in-person, virtually, or both - presentation availability will be noted in the schedule below. Presentations recordings may be made available at the discretion of the presenters. CME credits and the CME process are the same for either in-person or virtual participation.
Upcoming Grand Rounds
Wednesday, December 6
"Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies: Promise, Challenges, and Current Research at HMHI" presented by Benjamin R. Lewis MD
Dr. Lewis is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute. He is interested in strategies to enhance and sustain therapeutic outcomes with psychedelic-assisted therapies as well models of expanding access and scalability. View profile.
Calendar of Events
Gregg F. Martin, PhD
Major General, US Army (Ret.)
Author of BIPOLAR GENERAL: My Forever War with Mental Illness
Richard Ferguson MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Health Choice Utah
President-Black Physicians of Utah (BPOU)
Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD
Matthew P. Nemeroff Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences Director, Institute of Early Life Adversity Research
Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
President, Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
Paula Smith, PhD
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership & Policy
University of Utah
Charles L. Scott, MD
Chief, Division of Psychiatry and the Law
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis Medical Center – Sacramento
Zhexing Wen, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Cell Biology, and Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine
Jürgen Unützer, MD, MA, MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director; Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions
Paul G Ramsey Endowed Chair for Brain Health Solutions, University of Washington
Christian Thurstone, MD
Director, Behavioral Health Services, Denver Health
Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Marlene P. Freeman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
Director of Clinical Services and Associate Director, Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry
Abra Prentice Foundation Chair in Women’s Mental Health
Medical Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute
Editor in Chief, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum Endowed Chair in Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine
Associate Chief for Research, Department of Psychiatry, MGH
Director, Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, MGH
Director, Omics Unit, MGH Division of Clinical Research
Director, Mass General Brigham Training Program in Precision and Genomic Medicine,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
President, International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
Mary Ann Villarreal, PhD
Vice President for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
University of Utah