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Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025
Time: 8:00 - 9:30AM
Title: Professor Rounds: Sports Psychiatry and how Exercise Influences the Brain
Speaker: Sean Bentley, MD, UC San Diego
Location: Zoom (CME Credit Available)
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Title: TBA
Speaker: Gaurav Mishra, MD, MBA, UC San Diego
Location: Zoom
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Title: Private Practice: Business Basics & Resources for Getting Started
Speaker: Karen Hanson-Bondi, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: Zoom (RSVP to Jennifer Hickey-Hinojosa)
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Time: 9:00 - 10:00AM
Title: Effects of Cannabis Intoxication on Parenting
Speaker: William Pelham, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: Zoom
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Time: 8:00 - 9:30AM
Title: Professor Rounds: Psychiatry and Metabolism
Speaker: Justine Ku, MD, UC San Diego
Location: Zoom (CME Credit Available)
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Title: The Impact of Aging and HIV on Brain Health
Speaker: David Moore, PhD, UC San Diego
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Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Time: 8:30 - 9:30AM
Location: (Hybrid) CNCB Conference Room & via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2025
Time: 9:00 - 10:00AM
Title: Pediatric Irritability as a Pathway to Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Speaker: Emily C Kemp, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 5:00PM
Title: Genetic Basis of Psychiatric Disorders
Speaker: Hyejung Won, PhD, University of North Carolina
Location: (Hybrid) BSB 2071 & via Zoom
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Title: Career Development Award Panel
Panelists: Samantha Chalker, PhD, Erika Crable, PhD, MPH, William Pelham, PhD, Juan Molina, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
RSVP to Jennifer Hickey-Hinojosa
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time: 9:00AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Title: Neurosurgical Interventions in Psychiatric Disease
Speaker: Sharona Ben-Haim, MD, UC San Diego
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Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025 - Friday, February 28, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Title: Maximizing Impact & Innovation: Grant Writing Workshop for Mental Health Research
Speaker: Martin Paulus, MD, UC San Diego
Contact Jennifer Hickey-Hinojosa for more information
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Title: Regular Canabis Use and Cardiovascular Health: Insights from NHANES, MESA, and CARDIA
Panelist: Jamie Corroon, ND, MPH, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Friday, March 7, 2025
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Title: Detection of AI-Generated Images Across the Lifespan
Panelist: Nelson Roque, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Location: (Hybrid) via Zoom & in-person 8980 Villa La Jolla Drive, 7th Floor, Large Conference Room
To meet with Dr. Rosque, email Dr. Raeanne Moore
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Federal Funding & Departmental Impact Presentation
Panelist: Samuel Ward, PhD, Interim Vice Dean of Research, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Advancing Access in Medical Education and Training: Policy and Best Practice for Inclusion in GME
Panelist: Lisa Meeks, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Psychosocial Adversity in Migrant Youth and Families
Panelist: Shawn Sidhu, MD, UC San Diego
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Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Professor Rounds: The Role of Expectancy in Psychedelic and non-Psychedelic Clinical
Panelist: Jared Kopelman, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Communication Strategies & Negotiating Job Offers for Women
Panelist: Sonya Norman, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom | RSVP to Jennifer
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Title: Steering the Integration of Medical Cannabis in Healthcare: The Cannabis & Health Research
Panelist: Ryan Vandrey, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Episodic Memory, Aging, and Alzheimer's Disease
Panelist: Michael Yassa, PhD, UC Irvine
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Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Regulating Dopamine via Acetylcholine, the Neurobiologic Mechanism of Action of Xanomeline/Trospium and Pro-cholinergic Agents for Psychosis
Presenter: Stephen Stahl, MD, PhD, Professor
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: A Judge's View on Mental Health
Presenter: Judge James Bianco
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Spinal Interoceptive Pathways as Therapeutic Targets in Major Depressive Disorder
Presenter: Francisco Romo-Nava, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
Location: via Zoom
Date: Monday, April 21, 2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Title: Phenotyping Adolescent Substance Use: Relationships with Neurodevelopmental Connectomes
Presenter: Ryan Sullivan, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Case Court
Presenter: Aaron Meyer, MD, Assistant Professor
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Title: Assessing Sexual Function in Psychiatry
Presenter: Darshan Patel, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: TBA
Presenter: Stephanie Martinez, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM
Title: Theta Burst Stimulation Mechanism for Ameliorating Cognitive Impairment in Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Presenter: Morteza Salimi, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Showcasing two recent DOP FTE awardees*
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location:(Hybrid) In-person in BSB 2071 & via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location:(Hybrid) In-person in BSB 2071 & via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
Location: UCSD Price Center West Ballroom
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Dirty Birds Patio, Price Center
Date: Friday, June 13, 2025
Time: 5:30PM
Location: UCSD Faculty Club
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Introduction to Sports Psychiatry
Presenters: Avani Patel, MD, MHA, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Contextualizing Care: An Essential and Measurable Clinical Competency
Presenters: Saul J. Weiner, MD, University of Illinois Chicago
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: The Technical Side of Applying for Grants
Presenters: Psychiatry Sponsored Projects Admin
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Mind Games
Presenter: Sanjai Rao, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Getting the Most from Mentorship
Presenter: Igor Grant, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Partnerships to Improve Mental Health at the Population Level
Presenter: Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA, University of Washington
Location: In-person in MET 143 & via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: A 51-Year Retrospective: How Psychiatry Stopped Making Homosexuals Sick
Presenters: Kevo Rivera, MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Psychopharmacology
Presenters: Stephen Stahl, MD, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Consulting & Collaborating with Industry
Presenters: Murray Stein, MD, MPH, DOP Professor & Tali Ball, PhD, Head of Clinical Product Development, Big Health
Location: Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Genomic Medicine in CAP
Presenters: Aaron Besterman, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: (Hybrid) In-person in BSB 2071 & via Zoom
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Featuring Internal DOP Faculty:
Title: Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Outcomes and Mechanisms of an Evidence-Based Therapy for Addiction, Emotion Dysregulation, and Chronic Pain
Presenter: Eric Garland, PhD, DOP Professor
Title: Envisioning Integrative Care for Mental Health
Presenter: Ariel Lang, PhD, DOP Professor
Location: Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Wellness Series
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Burnout in Youth Sports
Presenter: Kishan Pandya, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Cognition in Depression
Presenter: Carrie Shilyanski, MD, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Sleep and Depression in Interns
Presenter: Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 5:00PM
Location: In-person at the Faculty Club
RSVP by Friday, September 5th Here
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Title: Grant-Writing in the Era of NIH Chaos
Presenter: Martin Paulus, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
RSVP to Jennifer
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM
Title: TBA
Presenter: Ursula Saelzler, PhD, San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Basics of UC Faculty Series & Promotion
Presenter: Victoria Risbrough, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
RSVP Here
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Title: Opioid-Sparing Effects of Cannabinoids
Presenter: Michael A. Taffe, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Informed Insights into the Developmental Neurobiology and Clinical Heterogeneity of Psychotic Disorders
Presenter: Cameron Carter, MD, UC Irvine
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds
Presenter: Neha Kidambi, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Monday, September 29, 2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Title: Examining the Neurochemistry of Nicotine and Cannabis Co-Use in Youth through Advanced Spectroscopy
Presenter: Joseph Happer, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Preparing for Promotion
Presenter: Vickie Risbrough, PhD, Tammy Wall, PhD, and Andres Schneeberger, MD
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: TBA
Presenter: Noe Caballero, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 4: Between Two Worlds: Identity, Pressure, and Suicide Risk in Asian American Youth
Presenter: Mindy Kim, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
2025 CMCR Symposium
Date: Thursday and Friday, October 16 & 17, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 12:00PM
Title: Exploring Paradoxes Along the Gut-Brain Axis
Presenter: Carla Ingle, UC San Diego
Location: via online
Register Here
Event details Here
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Title: Health Behavior Profiles and Substance Use Riisk in the ABCD Cohort: A Longitudinal Multimodal Analysis
Presenter: April C. May, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM
Title: Augmenting Peer Support for Mental Health Challenges Using AI
Presenter: Federica Klaus, MD, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Presenter: Nick Allen, PhD, University of Oregon
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM
Title: Impact of Cannabis Use on Vascular Function and Cardiovascular Risk
Presenter: Jamie Corroon, ND, MPH, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 12:30PM
Title: Transdiagnostic for Eating Disorders Utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
Registration Here
Email edconference for UCSD staff discount
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 4: An Introduction to Psychodermatology
Speaker: Michaela Rand, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Initiative Approaches for Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Disorders
Presenter: Xia Li, MD, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Diversity Series 1: Refugee and Asylum Care Today
Speaker: Larry Malak, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Monday, November 17, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: Educating for Understanding: Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning
Speaker: Dr. Richard Schwartzstein
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Speaker: Abraham Palmer, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: (Hybrid) Israni BRF2 and via Zoom
Advance Registration is encouraged, more information Here
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: How to Give a Job Talk to Include Self-Promotion and Networking
Presenter: Kelly Courtney, PhD, Greg Light, PhD, and Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Recording
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 6: Medical Aid in Dying: Implications for Psychiatrists
Speaker: Tara Trujillo, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Title: Professor Rounds 7: Dual Life Experience: Treating Patients with Spinal Cord Injury in Psychiatry
Speaker: Kie Fujii, MD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Date: Thursday and Friday, December 4 - 5, 2025
Time: 8:00AM - 4:00PM
Title: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Email edconference for UCSD staff discount
Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: In-Person at MET Auditorium
Event Flyer
Date: Monday, December 8, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Title: Conversational AI & Mental Health: Opportunities and Challenges
Location: In-person in Duane J. Roth Auditorium
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: via Zoom
Date: Monday, December 15, 2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Title: From Symptoms to Circuits: A Network Science Approach to Aging
Speaker: Fareshte Erani, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Location: (Hybrid) In-person in BSB 2071 & via Zoom
Date:Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Title: A Neuropsychological Approach to Understanding and Treating Complex Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Speaker: Jessica J. Zakrzewski, PhD, UC San Diego
Location: via Zoom
Event Flyer
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Time: 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Title: Trust Within the Learning Environment: A Two-Way Street
Speaker: Carrie Chen, MD, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Location: via Zoom
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Time: 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Location: In-Person at Faculty Club Patio
Event Flyer