2018 International Mental Health Research Symposium

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2018 International Mental Health Research Symposium

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This annual event features presentations by our Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners, select BBRF Young Investigator Grantees, and Keynote Speakers.

Location:

Kaufman Music Center

129 West 67th St. (btw Broadway and Amsterdam)

New York, NY 10023

Join us for a keynote talk from The Honorable Steven Leifman, Associate Administrative Judge, Criminal Division; and featured speaker Altha Stewart, M.D., President, American Psychiatric Association (APA), along with presentations on leading research discoveries across brain and behavior disorders by the Foundation’s 2018 Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners and two select Young Investigator Grantees.

Schedule:

Registration: 8:30 am

Morning Session: 9:00 am-12:10 pm

Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners

Repercussions of Abnormal Dopamine on Brain and Behavior in Schizophrenia

Anissa Abi-Dargham, M.D.

Stony Brook University

Bridging Brain, Mind, and Experience to Understand Psychosis

Guillermo Horga, M.D., Ph.D.

New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

Schizophrenia and the Brain’s Folded Genome

Schahram Akbarian, M.D., Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Evaluating Schizophrenia Risk Genes in Human Neurons

Kristen Brennand, Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Heart Matters: Bipolar Disorder as a Vascular Disease

Benjamin I. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.C.

University of Toronto & Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Advancing Translational Research and Clinical Care in Bipolar Disorder

Lakshmi N. Yatham, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.C., M.R.C.Psych (UK)., MBA (Exec)

University of British Columbia

Imaging the Developing Brain in Autism

Joseph Piven, M.D.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Break: 12:10 pm-1:10 pm

Afternoon Session: 1:10 pm-4:30 pm

Featured Speaker

Using Mental Health Research to Achieve Health Equity

Altha Stewart, M.D.

Keynote Speaker

Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness

Judge Steven Leifman

Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners

Imagining a Better World for Children with Autism

Ami Klin, Ph.D.

Marcus Autism Center, Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Acetylcholine Receptors and Higher Brain Functions

Jean Pierre Changeux, Ph.D.

College de France and Institut Pasteur, France

The Computational CEO of the Brain

Xiao-Jing Wang, Ph.D.

Center for Neural Science, NYU

Young Investigators

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Socially Anxious Youth

Michelle Pelcovitz, Ph.D.

Weill Cornell Medical College

Emerging Wearable Biomarker Sensors for Mental Health Monitoring

Sam Emaminejad, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

The order of the presentations is subject to change.

Thank you to our Discoverer Sponsor:

Moderated by

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Robert M.A. Hirschfeld, M.D.

Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

2003 Falcone Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Affective Disorders Research (Colvin Prize)

2002 Distinguished Investigator Grant

Dr. Hirschfeld’s research has significantly contributed to understanding the classifications of depression and bipolar disorders; their clinical course, relationship to personality and personality disorders and treatment with medication and psychotherapy. He and his colleagues developed the Mood Disorder Questionnaire, the most widely used screening instrument for bipolar disorder.

Dr. Hirschfeld chaired the original and revised versions of the American Psychiatric Association’s working group to develop practice guidelines for treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. He was Chief of the Mood, Anxiety and Personality Disorders Research Branch and Clinical Director of the Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment (D/ART) Program of the NIMH.