2026 Events Archive

January 2026

Academic Divisonal Rounds

Date: Thursday, January 8, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Title TBA
Speaker: Henry Scott Kane, MD, Sharp Medical Director
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, January 8, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 8
Speaker: Matt Abrams, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Date: Monday, January 12, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: From Culture to Climate: Building a Better Learning Environment in Medical Education
Speaker: Alice Chuang, PhD, University of North Carolina
Location: via online
Event information Here

PET Professional Development Lecture Series

Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Navigating Success Outside of Academia
Speaker: Deborah Pontillo, PhD, San Diego Kids First; Candice Contet, PhD, Johnson & Johnson; & Samantha Friend, MD, PhD, Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 9: Beyond the Picky Eater
Speaker: Kaitlin Sanzone, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Center for Psychedelic Research VPSI Event

Date: Friday and Saturday, January 16 - 17, 2026
Title: Visionary Problem-Solving Initiative Imaginarium
Location: In-Person at Jeannie Auditorium
Event information Here
Event Flyer

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Our Moment is Now
Speaker: Aristotle Voineskos MD, PhD, FRCP(C), University of Toronto
Location: (Hybrid) In-person in BSB 2071 and via Zoom
Event Flyer
Event Recording

February 2026

Grant Writing Workshop

Date: Thursday and Friday, February 5 - 6, 2026
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Title: Maximizing Impact and Innovation: A 2-Day Grant Writing Workshop for Mental Health Research
Location: In-person at MET
For more details and to RSVP, contact Jennifer

Academic Divisional Rounds

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Factitious Disorder in the Medically Ill Patient
Speaker: Rachel Dhillon, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 10: Growing Up Online: Psychiatry Considerations for Gen Z & Gen Alpha
Speaker: Natalie Constantine, MD, MPH, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Faculty Mentor Training Program Special Refresher Session

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Title:Understanding Generational Differences
Speaker: Jean M. Twenge, PhD, SDSU
Location: In-Person at PSB, HSEC Auditorium
Register by February 9

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time: 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Title: Words Matter - Mitigating Bias in Narrative Assessment
Speaker: Virginia (Ginny) Morris Sheffield, MD, University of Michigan Health
Location: via online
Event information Here

PET Professional Development Lecture Series

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Title: CDA Panel to Include Overview of Funding |
Speaker: Greg Light, PhD, Susan Tapert, PhD, Mike McCarthy, MD, & Carolina Makowski, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Wellness, Physician Suicide & HEAR/SAVE
Speaker: Sidney Zisook, MD, Desiree Shapiro, MD, & Alana Iglewicz, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Navigating AI in Mental Health Care: What Clinicians Need to Know
Speaker: John Torous, MD, Harvard Medical School
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Event Recording

March 2026

Junior Faculty Mentor Training Program

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Time: 10:00AM - 12:00PM and 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Speaker: Mariana Cherner, PhD & Victoria Risbrough, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: In-Person in PC Bear Room and Red Shoe Room
Program information Here

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds: Postpartum OCD
Speaker: Jessica White, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Academic Divisional Rounds

Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: PTSD, PTG and Other Transplant Related Topics Relevant to Psychiatrists
Speaker: Katherine Kruckenberg, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Diversity Series: Introduction to Street Psychiatry & Field-Based Mental Health Services
Speaker: Shayan Rab, MD, LA County Department of Mental Health
Location: via Zoom

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Date: Monday, March 16, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Teaching But Not Practicing Etiquette-Based Education
Speaker: Lenny Feldman, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Location: online
Event information Here

PET Professional Development Lecture Series

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Navigating Career Transitions Panel
Speaker: Cory Weissman, MD, Jessica Montoya, PhD, & Ellen Lee, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: ABCDs of Adolescent Mental Health
Speaker: Susan Tapert, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Beyond Clinical Judgment: Integrating Measurement-Based Care into Psychiatric Practice
Speaker: Andres Schneeberger, MD, UC San Diego
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Title: Psychiatric Disorders Converge on Common Pathways But Diverge In Cellular Context, Spatial Distribution, and Directionality of Genetic Effects
Speaker: Jonathan Sebat, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 12: Overview of Psycho-oncology
Speaker: Rekha Narasimhan, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

April 2026

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds: Refugee Mental Health in San Diego
Speaker: Ali Shenasa, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

DOP Faculty Mentoring Program

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Empowering Faculty Through Compassionate Communication in Mentorship
Speaker: Lisa Eyler, PhD, Carla Marienfeld, MD, & Arpi Minassian, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer

Academic Divisional Rounds

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Deprescribing Psychotropics Through A Psychodynamic Understanding
Speaker: Paige Sutherland, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Psychopharmacology
Speaker: Stephen Stahl, MD, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Teaching How to Teach: Clinician Educator Series- Gamification and Other Approaches to Teaching in an Engaging Fashion
Speaker: Scott Mullaney, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom

Psychiatry Grant Review Meeting

Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM
Title: Threat-Related Attentional Bias and Event Boundary Perception as Mechanisms of Episodic Memory Disfunction in PTSD
Speaker: Steven J. Granger, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Specific Aims

Reflect and Reconnect: A DOP Virtual Sharing and Community-Building Space

Session 1- Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location: via Zoom
Open to faculty, staff, and trainees
Session 2- Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: via Zoom
Open to faculty, staff, and trainees
Session 3- Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 8:00AM - 9:00AM
Location: via Zoom
Open to faculty, staff, and trainees
Session 4- Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: via Zoom
Open to trainees only

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Time: 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Title: Teaching and Learning with Medical Students & Residents with Disabilities: Strategies & Opportunities
Speaker: Christopher Moreland, MD, University of Texas at Austin
Location: via Zoom
Event information Here

CMCR Investigators' Meeting

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Title: Association of Endothelial Dysfunction with Chronic Cannabis Smoking and THC-Edible Use: The CANDIDE Study and What Led Up to It
Speaker: Matthew L. Springer, PhD, UC San Francisco
Location: via Zoom

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Rapid-Acting Antidepressants for Peripartum Depression: The Science and Clinical Application of GABAergic Neuroactive Steroid Therapies
Speaker: Kristina Deligiannidis, MD, Northwell Health
Location: via BSB 2071 & Zoom
Event Flyer
Event Recording

Resident Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds: The Unique Role of Psychiatrists in Delivering Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease
Speaker: Lay Kodama, MD, UC San Diego Resident
Location: via Zoom

Psychiatry Special Seminar Series

Date: Monday, April 27, 2026
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Title: Sleep as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementia
Speaker: Tina Thi Vo-Eckerle, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer

PET Professional Development Lecture Series *Rescheduled

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Communication Strategies & Negotiating Job Offers for Women
Speaker: Sonya Norman, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

May 2026

DOP General Faculty Meeting

Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Time: 8:30AM - 10:00AM
Location: via Zoom

Academic Divisional Rounds

Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Bipolar Disorder in the Perinatal Period
Speaker: Julia Nguyen, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Date: Monday, May 18, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Reimagining Assessment: Designing Programmatic Systems for Learning
Speaker: Darrio Torre, MD, MPH, PhD, University of Central Florida
Location: via Zoom
Event information Here

PET Professional Development Lecture Series

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: How to Build Mentorship Skills as a Junior Researcher (e.g., mentoring undergraduate, master's level, doctoral students)
Speaker: Daniel Stout, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series

Date: Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Twenty-five Years of Ketamine Use as a Rapidly Acting Antidepressant: Advances and Challenges
Speaker: Amit Anand, MD, Harvard Medical School
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Event Recording

June 2026

Office of Faculty Affairs Grant Writing Course (GWC)

Date: June 2026 - September 2026
For faculty actively working on a research proposal for an NIH R-type of K-type grant.
Course information Here
For questions, contact program manager Morgan Mouchka

21st Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium & Reception

Date: Thursday, June 4, 2026
Time: 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: In-person in Price Center West Ballroom
This event is designed to feature the work of early career investigators in our Department. A call for abstracts will be forthcoming.
All faculty, trainees, and staff are invited to attend.
Program Outline
For questions, contact Jennifer

DOP Quarterly Research Faculty Meeting

Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: (Hybrid) In-person in BSB 2071 & via Zoom

Department of Psychiatry Mid-Year Wellness Check-In

Date: Monday, June 15, 2026
Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Location: via Zoom
An important opportunity to engage directly with senior UCSDH and School of Medicine leadership on the well-being of our department.

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Time: 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Title: Approaches to Remediating Learners Across the Arc of Medical Education
Speaker: Calvin Chou, MD, UC San Fransisco
Location: via Zoom
Event information Here

2026 DOP Staff Appreciation Event

Date: Thursday, June 25, 2026
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: via Zoom
Will feature lab interviews, behind-the-scenes spotlights on award nominees, and the celebration of milestones, contributions, and the people who hold this department together.
Summer Blockbuster theme!
Invitation & RSVP
Requested contribution information Here