2017 International Mental Health Research Symposium

Friday, October 27, 2017
2017 International Mental Health Research Symposium

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Online registration for this event has closed. Walk-in registrations are welcome on Friday, October 27. Please arrive early.

Hear the 2017 Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners and select Young Investigators present updates on leading research discoveries across brain and behavior disorders, and a Special Keynote Presentation.

Registration: 8:30 am
Morning Session: 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners

The Prevention of Relapse with Medication: A Statistical Perspective

John M. Davis, M.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Toward Personalized Medicine in Schizophrenia: Clinical Trials Targeting Specific Biomarkers and Patient Populations

Deanna L. Kelly, Pharm.D., BCPP

University of Maryland School of Medicine

The Brain Circuitry of Bipolar Disorder: A View from Brain Scanning Research

Hilary P. Blumberg, M.D.

Yale School of Medicine

Mechanisms of Mood Disorder in the Human Brain: Neural Targets for New Treatments

Mary L. Phillips, M.D., M.D. (Cantab)

University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

Recovery from Severe Psychosocial Deprivation

Nathan A. Fox, Ph.D.

The University of Maryland, College Park

Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital

Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., M.D.

Tulane University School of Medicine

Break: 12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30 pm-4:30 pm
Keynote Speaker

Are There Breakthrough Opportunities For Mental Health?

Herbert Pardes, M. D.

Executive Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital



President, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council

Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners

Addiction as Brain Disorder of Self-Control

Trevor W. Robbins, Ph.D.

University of Cambridge, UK

Young Investigators

Harnessing the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis During Pregnancy to Improve Mother and Child’s Health

Mary C. Kimmel, M.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brain Development and the Immune System: The Basic Science of Stress

Anna V. Molofsky, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

 

The order of the presentations is subject to change.

Moderated by
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.