The CHA Department of Psychiatry, part of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, hosts weekly Grand Rounds each Wednesday at noon ET during the academic year, highlighting key research and clinical work being done within the institution as well as around the country with featured national speakers. Scheduled topics for the current academic year will be posted below. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the video access link, please email jmaccumascaigh@challiance.org.

• 11/11/2024 Revisiting the Biopsychosocial Model: An Empirical Approach for Trauma-Informed Care
• 11/25/2024 The PARTS Study- Insights from Group-Based Internal Family Systems Research
• 10/2/2024 Ageism Unmasked
• 10/23/2024 Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
• 10/30/2024 Cannabinoids in Older Adults
• 11/6/2024 Morbidity and Mortality Internal Session
• 11/13/2024 Esketamine Therapy: Protocols, Practices, and Patient Outcomes in Treatment Resistant Depression
• 12/4/2024 The Growing Edge of Child Psychiatry Access Programs: MCPAP for Early Childhood Mental Health
• 12/11/2024 Health Care for People with Serious Mental Illness: Targeting Health Disparities
• 1/8/2025 Little Treatments, Big Effects: How to Build Meaningful Moments that Can Transform Your Mental Health
• 1/29/2025 Psychedelics in Psychiatry: Where we Have Been, Where we are, Where we could Go
• 2/05/2025 Capacity and Competence: What is legal? What is ethical? What is moral? What is practical? And what is my role?
• 2/12/2025 Mindfulness Based Medical Group Visits
• 2/26/2025 Exercise Effects on Behavior, Neurochemistry and Brain Functional Connectivity: Therapeutic Potential for Substance Use Disorder and Psychiatric Disorders
• 3/05/2025 Morbidity and Mortality Grand Rounds
• 3/12/2025 Contingency Management: Implementation of a Highly Effective Intervention for the Treatment of Stimulant Use Disorder
• 3/26/2025 Implementing Group Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Within a Primary Care Setting
• 4/02/2025 Sleep Improvement: Offering a CBT-I Class in Primary Care
• 4/09/2025 Considerations for Emotional Eating in Primary Care
• 4/23/2025 Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychosis in Autism
• 4/30/2025 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
• 5/07/2025 Vinfen: Case Example of Community Service Providers’ Capacity and Limitations
• 5/14/2025 Mindfulness for Opioid Use Disorder
• 5/28/2025 Digital Psychiatry
• 6/04/2025 Advancing Research and Treatment of Mental Health and Substance Use in Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
• 6/11/2025 Voices from CHA: Resident Writing through the Ages

• 9/14/2022: CHA Psychiatry: Interim Reflections on Past, Present, Future
• 9/28/2022: The Hearing Voices Movement, Philosophy, and Spirit
• 10/5/2022: Eating Disorders and Sociocultural Diversity
• 10/12/2022: Psychosis Spectrum Care Models and Peer Specialist Rate
• 11/2/2022: #TikTokTherapist: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Mental Health
• 11/9/2022: Perinatal Trauma: Promoting Health Equity & Trauma Informed Care
• 11/30/2022: Social (In)justice and Mental Health
• 12/7/2022: How a Practice Gets to be Evidence-based
• 12/14/2022: Child and Adolescent Threat Assessment - Triaging, Problem Solving, and Intervening to Prevent Violence
• 1/4/2023: Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing the Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Epidemics amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 1/11/2023: Improving Suicide Prevention in Primary Care for Differing Levels of Behavioral Health Integration
• 1/25/2023: Climate Change and Child Mental Health
• 2/1/2023: PTSD and Perinatal Health
• 2/8/2023: MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD: An Introduction for Mental Health Professionals
• 2/22/2023: Dementia Diagnosis, Care and Support Through a Health Care Inequities Lens
• 3/1/2023: Harnessing the Clinical Promise of Measurement-Based Care: How the “Collect, Share, Act” Framework Can Lead the Way
• 3/8/2023: Preparing for Population Health Psychiatry: Developing Integrated Care Training Opportunities for All Residents
• 3/23/2023: Toward a Cohesive Neuropsychological Framework of Trauma and Recovery
• 3/29/2023: Prospects for Precision Psychiatry
• 4/5/2023: 2022 CHA Regional Wellbeing Report: A Community Health Needs Assessment
• 4/12/2023: Abu Dhabi’s Mental Health Strategy - Highlights & Achievements
• 4/26/2023: Traumatic Experiences of Frontline Nurses and Implications for Psychiatric Care of the COVID-19 Healthcare Workforce
• 5/3/2023: Nowhere to Go: Advancing Structural Solutions to Homelessness
• 5/10/2023: Grief Matters: Mourning and Melancholia in Older Adults
• 6/7/2023: Senior-On-Call (SOC) Orientation Manual: A Quality Improvement Initiative
• 6/14/2023: Challenges of Agitation in Dementia: A Plea for Early Discussion
• 9/13/2023 CHA Psychiatry: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, Where We’re Going
• 9/27/2023 Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder – Update in Use of Buprenorphine
• 10/4/2023 Linkages Between Problem Gambling and Self-Harm: Meta-analytic Insights
• 10/11/2023 Expanding Access & Scaling Up Mental Health Care
• 10/25/2023 Group Therapy for the Treatment of PTSD in Primary Care
• 11/1/2023 Research: The PARTS Study: IFS Groups for PTSD
• 11/8/2023 Recovery Philosophy and Approach in Behavioral Health Care
• 11/29/2023 Navigating Behavioral Health Equity in Boston as the First Chief Behavioral Health Officer
• 12/6/23 Working with Medical Interpreters: Shifting from Standards of Practice to Intersubjectivity in the Clinical Space
• 12/13/23 Gender Affirmation Among Black and Latine Gender Expansive Youth
• 1/24/24 Ethical Issues in the Use of Psychedelics in Psychiatry
• 1/31/24 The Vermont Child Psychiatry Access Program: Improving Rapid Access to Mental Health Care in a Rural State
• 2/14/24 Early Relational Health: An Approach to Improve Caregiver Mental Health
• 2/28/24 Recognizing the Less Obvious Presentations of Autism
• 3/6/24 Five Weeks of Boarding in the Emergency Room: Placement Challenges for Patients with Psychiatric and Developmental Needs
• 3/27/24 Muslim American Perinatal Mental Health Experiences in the US: A Qualitative Examination
• 4/3/24 Clinician Perspectives of Measurement-Based Care: Facilitators, Barriers, and How-To's
• 4/10/24 The Inattention Evaluation: Reconceptualizing the Adult ADHD Evaluation in Primary Care
• 4/24/24 Non-stimulant Approaches for the Management of Adult ADHD
• 4/30/24 Cannabis: Good vs Evil. A Dialogue between Primary Care Providers and Mental Health Practitioners
• 5/1/24 Perinatal Mental Health: Diagnosis & Treatment Trends 2008-2020
• 5/8/24 Addressing the Enigma of Youth Suicide at CHA
• 5/22/24 Lessons Learned from Implementing Telehealth Groups
• 5/29/24 Caregivers of People Living With Dementia
• 6/5/24 Leveraging the Electronic Health Record to Characterize Health Care Utilization and Stressors Before a Suicide Attempt Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients
• 6/12/24 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Depression Among Women with Disabilities