Grand rounds

We are pleased to enrich our residency with presentations by national speakers on a bi-monthly basis. Past speakers and topics include:

Date
Topic
Speaker
July 11, 2018
Genetic Testing in Psychiatry: Ready for Prime Time?
Matthew Macaluso, D.O., Director of Psychiatry Residency Training, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
July 25, 2018
Parental Training for Disruptive Behavioral Disorders
Matt Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry University of Chicago
August 8, 2018
Musical Taste in Adolescents and Mental Illness
Michael Shapiro, MD, FAPA, Director of Psychotherapy Education, CAP Fellowship, University of Florida
August 22, 2018
Sexual Intimacy in the Nursing Home
Eitan Kimchi, MD, Associate Residency Training Director, Associate Director Inpatient Geropsych, Rush University Medical Center
August 29, 2018
The Psychiatrist in Peril: Current Topics in Malpractice
William J. Newman, M.D., Vice Chair for Education, Director Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
September 12, 2018
Psychodynamics of Arson
Jason Beaman, D.O., Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Oklahoma State University
September 26, 2018
Psychopharmacology in Autism and Aggression
Sarah Mohiuddin M.D, Director, Multidisciplinary Autism Program, Child Psychiatry Fellowship Director, University of Michigan Health System
October 10, 2018
The EMR – Is it Giving Us What We Need?
Jane Gagliardi, Vice Chair for Education, Psychiatry Residency Training Director, Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
October 24, 2018
Loneliness and Social Isolation: A CBT Approach for the Busy Psychiatrist
Donna Sudak, President, AADPRT Vice Chair for Education, Director of Psychotherapy Training, Drexel University
November 14, 2018
Adjunctive Light Therapy for Bipolar Depression
Dorothy Sit, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
November 28, 2018
Challenging Psychiatric Cases
Psychiatry Residents
December 12, 2018
#tweetingshrink: Social Media, Professionalism, and Psychiatrists
Marika Wrzosek, MD, Director, Medical Student Education, Medical College of Wisconsin

Date
Topic
Speaker
January 9, 2019
Transgender Issues for the Child Psychiatrist
T. Eric Spiegel, MD, Associate Training Director, Child and Adolescent Fellowship, C/L Director, Saint Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine
January 23, 2019
Who Represents Us and What are they Lobbying For? Organized Medicine, Psychiatrists and the Future of Mental Health
Shastri Swaminathan, MD, Past President Illinois State Medical Society, Past President Illinois Psychiatric Society, Past Chair, Illinois Masonic Medical Center Dept of Psychiatry
January 30, 2019
Interesting Psychiatric Cases
Psychiatry Residents
February 13, 2019
Malignant Catatonia in Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Joseph J. Cooper, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Co-Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago
March 13, 2019
Considerations for Successful Collaborative Care Implementation
Heather Huang, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
March 27, 2019
Depression as a Systemic Disease
Jorge Luis Sotelo, MD, FACLP, FAPA, Director/Memorial Healthcare System Psychiatry Residency, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida, Atlantic University
April 10, 2019
What Does the Second Amendment Have to do with Psychiatry?
Eugene Trager, MD, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
April 24, 2019
Racism in Psychiatry
Kari M. Wolf, MD, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, SIU School of Medicine
May 8, 2019
Overcoming Barriers to Treatment: Using the Mental Health Court
Mark Epstein, JD, Epstein and Epstein
May 22, 2019
Hypersomnolence in Psychiatric Disorders
David T. Plante, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Program Director, Sleep Medicine Fellowship, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
June 12, 2019
Interesting Psychiatric Cases
Psychiatry Residents
June 26, 2019
Resident Education Day
Psychiatry Residents
July 10, 2019
Long-Term Therapy in the RearView Mirror: “Evidence' from my 40-Year Clinical Career
William S. Meyer, MSW, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn, Duke University Medical Center
July 24, 2019
Chocolate and the Brain
Matt Atienza, MD, Medical Director, Inpatient Psychiatry Units, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
August 14, 2019
What’s New in the Illinois Mental Health Code?
Joseph T. Monahan, JD, Monahan Law Group
August 28, 2019
Neurolinguistics and Nonverbal Communication
Justin Lam, MD, 4th Year Psychiatry Resident, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
September 11, 2019
Addiction as Brain Disease - How Does This Change our Understanding and Treatment
Tanvir Singh, MD, Medical Director of Recovery Services Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toledo
September 25, 2019
Managing PTSD: What Works and Why
Randon S. Welton M.D., Director, Residency Training, Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University
October 16, 2019
Safety Assessments for Children and Adolescents
Gary Swanson, M.D., Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, Allegheny General Hospital
December 11, 2019
Nontraditional Treatments in Psychiatry: What is the Evidence?
Phil Janicak, MD, Adjunctive Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Date
Topic
Speaker
January 8, 2020
Trauma Informed Care – Integrating Brain and Body Based Treatment Interventions
Bernadette M. Stevenson, MD, PhD, Center for Integrative Psychiatry, LLC, Niles, IL
January 22, 2020
Understanding Legal Liability in Psychiatry
Ryan Finkenbine, MD, Psychiatry Residency Program Director, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria
February 12, 2020
The Developmental Aspects of Ethics Relevant to Education
Lee Ascherman, MD, Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Alabama; Supervising Analyst, Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
February 26, 2020
Suicide and Inflammation
Fernando Espi Forcen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center
April 29, 2020
Annual Education Day
Psychiatry Residents
May 13, 2020
After 20 years of meditating, this is what I am learning: A Case for Heartfulness
Chris Smith, MDiv., LMFT Academy for Mindfulness, LLC, Glendale, Wisconsin
May 27, 2020
Mobile Apps Used in Psychiatric Practice
John Lou, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, UC Irvine School of Medicine
July 8, 2020
Gender Affirming Care and Transgender Health
Neeral Sheth, DO, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Associate Medical Director, Road Home Program: The Center for Veterans and Their Families, Rush University Medical Center
July 22, 2020
Nontraditional Treatments in Psychiatry Part II: Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders - What is the Evidence?
Phil Janicak, MD, Adjunctive Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
July 29, 2020
Psychiatry M & M
Psychiatry Residents, Dr. Greer Park, PGY3
August 12, 2020
DSM-5 Outline for Cultural Formulation and Cultural Formulation Interview: Tools for Culturally Competent Care
Francis Lu, MD, Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Emeritus UC Davis
September 9, 2020
How Psychiatrists Can Be Mental HEALTH Professionals
David C. Rettew, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Medical Director, Child, Adolescent, and Family Division, VT Dept of Mental Health, University of Vermont College of Medicine
September 23, 2020
ADHD, Substance Abuse and Stimulant Misuse
Ayame Takahashi, Director of Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Neuroscience Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Date
Topic
Speaker
January 13, 2021
A Developmental Approach in Treating Transitional Age Youth with Serious Mental Illness
Timothy Van Duesen, MD, Medical Director, Young Adult Service Residency Site Training Director, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale School of Medicine
January 27, 2021
Psychosis in Epilepsy: The Soul of the Sacred Disease
Aum Pathare, MD, Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Penn State Health/Penn State College of Medicine
February 10, 2021
Medical Improv: Building the Skills of an Excellent Provider
Nicole Eull, Psy D., Director of Wellbeing, Academic Affairs, Aurora UW Medical Group
February 24, 2021
Social Justice and C/L Psychiatry
Chandan Khandai, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UICCOM Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP) Representative IPS
March 10, 2021
Delirium and Other Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of COVID
Scott R. Beach, MD, FACLP, Program Director, MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
March 24, 2021
The 6 Neuropsychiatry Cases All Psychiatrists Should Know
Shel Benjamin, MD, Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry, Director of Neuropsychiatry, UMass Medical School
April 14, 2021
The Impact of Patient Suicide on Trainees and Supervisors
Zheala Qayyum, MD, MMS, Training Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship; Medical Director, Emergency Psychiatric Services, Boston Children’s Hospital
April 28, 2021
Eating Disorders
Kristina Sowar, MD, Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Eating Disorder Services for Children and Adolescents, University of New Mexico
May 12, 2021
An Overview of Peripartum Anxiety and Depression
Jennifer Sprague, MD, Attending Psychiatrist, Women’s Mental Health Services, llinois Masonic Medical Center
May 26, 2021
Annual Education Day – Residency QI projects
June 9, 2021
Sodium Imbalance in Psychiatry
Andrea Kondracke, MD, Division Chief, Department of Psychiatry & Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
July 14, 2021
Practicing at the Top of the Psychiatric License
David Mintz, MD, Austin Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
July 28, 2021
Resilience, Compassion, and Community
Geri Fox, MD, Associate Dean of Wellness and Resilience, UICOM Rockford
August 11, 2021
Metabolic Syndrome
Jeffrey Rado, MD, MPH, FAPA, Associate Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
August 25, 2021
3 Ways to be More Effective with Personality Disordered Patients
Jay Clore, PhD, LCP, Associate Program Director, Psychiatry Residency, UICOM Peoria
September 8, 2021
Functional Neurological Disorders: From History to Pathophysiology and Treatment
R. Brett Lloyd, MD, PhD, Psychiatry Residency Director, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
September 22, 2021
Understanding the Duty to Protect – Third Parties, Your Patient and Yourself
Tobias Wasser, MD, Associate Program Director, Psychiatry Residency, Yale
September 29, 2021
Interesting Psychiatric Cases
Psychiatry Residents
October 13, 2021
Suicide Risk Assessment and Malpractice Liability
Amanda Kingston, MD, Forensic Psychiatry Training Director, University of Missouri – Columbia
October 27, 2021
Clinical Pearls for for Childhood Anxiety and Depression
Suzanne L’Ecyuyer, MD, Assistance Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University, St.Louis
November 10, 2021
Clinical Pearls for Late-Life Anxiety and Depression
Kristina Zdanys, MD, Program Director, Geriatric Fellowship, UCONN Health
December 8, 2021
Love Hurts: Exploring victimization and Perpetration of Romance Scams
Christopher Marett, MD, MPH, Program Director, Forensic Fellowship, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
December 29, 2021
Interesting Psychiatric Cases
Psychiatry Residents

Date
Topic
Speaker
January 12, 2022
Readin', Ritin', and the Reduction of Risk: The Art of High Acuity Documentation
Tony Thrasher DO, DFAPA
President, American Association of Emergency Psychiatrists
January 26, 2022
Disclosing Adverse Events Workshop
Christina Girgis MD
Medical Director, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service, Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital
February 9, 2022
Medical Apartheid
Iverson Bell Jr. MD
Training Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Tennessee Health Sciences
February 23, 2022
An Allyship Journey
Scott Oakman Md, PhD, PD
Hennepin-Regions, MN
March 9, 2022
Facing Our Fears: Treating PTSD in the Context of Active Substance Use
Cassandra Holinka, PhD
Assistant Professor, UConn Health
March 23, 2022
CBT for Suicidal Behavior
Donna Sudak MD
Vice Chair for Education, Drexel University
April 13, 2022
Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
Zina Meriden MD
Attending Physician, Psychiatry Clerkship Director, Memorial Regional Hospital, FL
April 27, 2022
Drug-Drug Interactions: Practical Clinical Applications
Andrea Ament, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University
May 11, 2022
Quality Improvement at ALGH
Psychiatry Residents
May 25, 2022
Residents as Teachers – Annual Education Day
Psychiatry Residents
July 13, 2022
The Integration of Neuroscience into Clinical Psychiatry
Joey Cooper, MD, FANPA
Co-Director of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowships, UIC
July 27, 2022
Principles of Agitation and De-Escalation
Tony Thrasher, MD
Medical Director of Crisis Services, Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division
August 10, 2022
Supporting Patients with Substance Use Disorders in Withdrawal
Elina Drits, MD
Assoc. Chair of Education, Dir. of Addiction Services, Staten Island University Hospital
August 24, 2022
Substance Abuse During Pregnancy – Challenges and Opportunities
Kalpana Prasad, MD
Psychiatry Residency Director NGHS, Adjunct Professor Emory School of Medicine
September 14, 2022
Treating Anorexia Nervosa: An Overview of the Available Evidence-Base
Daniel Gih, MD
Psychiatry Residency Director, University of Nebraska Medical Center
September 28, 2022
Social Connectivity as a Treatment Target
Andrew Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
October 12, 2022
An Integrative Approach to Psychiatric Treatment
Noshene Ranjbar, MD
Director, Integrative Psychiatry Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine
October 26, 2022
Departmental Book Club
The Conversation – How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston
November 9, 2022
No Grand Rounds – AAH Ethics Symposium
November 23, 2022
No Grand Rounds – Thanksgiving Holiday
December 14, 2022
Engagement and Empathy in the Era of the Open Note
Tony Thrasher DO, DFAPA
President, American Association of Emergency Psychiatrists

Date
Topic
Speaker
January 11, 2023
Informed Consent and Capacity Assessment 
Ryan Finkenbine, MD Psychiatry Residency Program Director, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria
January 25, 2023
A Neurobiology-Informed Approach to Adolescent Decision Making 
Anish R. Dube, MD MPH FAPA DFAACAP Associate Professor, Charles Drew University College of Medicine
Program Director, General Psychiatry Residency
February 8, 2023
Transgender Mental Health and Gender-Affirming Care 
Andrew J. Migliaccio, MD Psychiatrist & Medical Director
Memorial Regional Outpatient Behavioral Health Center, Hollywood, FL
February 22, 2023
Anti-Asian Hate: The Roots of Xenophobia 
Carlyle H Chan, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin
March 8, 2023
Adult ADHD – Why It Matters 
Mark Zielinski Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
LSU Baton Rouge-OLOL Psychiatry Residency Program
March 22, 2023
Help! My Patient is Pregnant (or Breastfeeding) and has ADHD 
Eva Mathews, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Associate Training Director LSU-OLOL Psychiatry Residency Training Program
April 12, 2023
Polypharmacy
Paul Hung, MD Program Director, Psychiatry Residency, CMS
April 26, 2023
An Introduction to Integrative Psychiatry 
Anna Kurapey, MD PGY4 Psychiatry Resident, ALGH
May 10, 2023
Psychiatry Residency QI Project Presentations
PGY3 Psychiatry Residents
May 24, 2023
The Intersection between Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry 
Vijaya Ekambaram, MD, MPH Program Director- Psychiatry Residency Touro University of California College of Osteopathic Medicine
June 14, 2023
Annual Education Day 
ALGH Psychiatry Residents
June 28, 2023
Treatment of Agitation in Neurocognitive Disorders 
Jason Schillerstrom, MD Vice Chair for Education, UT Health San Antonio
July 12, 2023
What Psychiatrists Should Know About Patient and Professional Advocacy in Illinois 
James G MacKenzie, DO Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Past President, Illinois Psychiatric Society
July 26, 2023
The New Post Pandemic Digital Psychiatry Landscape- What You Need to Know 
Neha Jain, MD, FAPA Director, Telehealth Services – Psychiatry - UCONN Health
August 9, 2023
The Role of Positive Psychology in Attaining Well-Being 
Hermioni L. Amonoo, MD, MPP Director, Well-Being and Cancer Research Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
August 23, 2023
Mass Violence: Myths, Truths, and Messaging for MH Professionals 
Tony Thrasher, MD Medical Director of Crisis Services – Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division
September 13, 2023
Unlocking Implicit Bias: How our Hidden Attitudes Impact Patient Care 
Jabran Pasha, MD Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Oklahoma University School of Community Medicine
September 27, 2023
Mapping Social Determinants of Health 
Ana Ozdoba, MD Psychiatry Residency Director, Montefiore Hospital, New York
October 11, 2023
Update on Psychopharmacology in Autism and Aggression 
Sarah Mohiuddin, MD Director, Multidisciplinary Autism Program
Child Psychiatry Fellowship Director, University of Michigan Health System
October 25, 2023
Assessment of Sexual Offense Behaviors: The Importance of Static and Dynamic Risk
Joshua Camins, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Southern Illinois University Neuroscience Institute
November 8, 2023
The 1619 Project – The Legacy of Injustice in the American Healthcare System
Marla Hartzen MD, Alissa Borowski MD, John Runne DO, Cynthia Sammons PhD, Stephanie Launer PsyD, Babita Viegasmiller PhD
December 13, 2023
A Discussion on Patient Suicide with Tim Lineberry, Chief Medical Officer for Advocate Aurora Medical Group
Tim Lineberry MD, eMHA, CPE, Chief Medical Officer - Advocate Aurora Medical Group Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health