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Grand Rounds

The UNMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds series provides high-quality professional education for clinical staff, house officers, medical students, and other trainees within the department and for other interested parties on campus. We invite leading local and national experts to speak on relevant subjects, and we are committed to purposefully omitting commercial bias from our grand rounds presentations, ensuring the highest quality and integrity of our education.

The UNMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds series offers high-quality professional education for clinical staff, house officers, medical students, and other trainees within the department, as well as for interested individuals on campus. The department regularly invites leading regional and national experts to speak on pertinent topics in mental health that include complex clinical conditions; psychiatry at the interface of law, safety, and public health; academic medicine, training, and workforce development; interdisciplinary care and environmental/societal impacts; and innovation in therapeutics, media, and modalities.

The goals of grand rounds include disseminating knowledge, enhancing skills, promoting collaboration and discussion, and exposing participants to new perspectives and approaches. We are dedicated to avoiding any commercial bias in our grand rounds presentations and to ensuring the highest standards of quality and integrity in our educational offerings. 

Grand rounds are held bi-monthly at noon, typically on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Most grand rounds are presented live from the fourth floor of Poynter Hall and can be viewed on Zoom, starting 10 minutes before their scheduled start time. 

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) accredits the University of Nebraska Medical Center's continuing medical education programs for physicians. The University of Nebraska Medical Center approves this live activity for Continuing Education, allowing for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should claim credit only for their actual participation.




2026-27 Grand Rounds

Larrilyn Grant, MD, Wright State University

Topic: More Than a Screen Freeze: Catatonia in Intellectual Disability and How to Diagnose and Treat It via Telehealth

Heather Schultz, MD, University of Michigan

Topic: Radically Accepting Chaos and Riding the Wave: A Mindful Approach to Complex Presentations of Borderline Personality Disorder

David Baron, DO, Western University of Health Sciences

Topic: Lifestyle and sports psychiatry 

Morgan Faeder, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Topic: Lessons learned in treating the psychiatric complications of Parkinson's disease

Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, MD

Topic: Forensic Psychiatry as a public health leadership role through health prevention and promotion

Jesse Koskey, MD, UC Davis

Topic: Sketching out the Visual Arts in Education and Practice

 

Rebekah Nash, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic: Mental Health Care for the Organ Failure and Organ Transplant Patient: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Are Trying to Learn

Christina Cruz, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic: Community Mental Health in Asia

Amy Cheung, MD, PhD, Yale University

Topic: Food4Thought

Noshene Ranjbar, MD, University of Arizona

Topic: Integrative Psychiatry

Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Ph.D, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Topic: Promoting scholarship for early career faculty

 

Elizabeth Penner, MD, University of Utah

Topic: Therapeutic Intervention Dog for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Edwin Williamson, MD, Vanderbilt

Topic: TBD

Matthew Hughes, MD, Union Pacific

Topic: The interface of psychiatry and safety in the workplace.  A review of Railroad Operational Occupations and safety sensitive case reviews at UNMC

Joseph Stoklosa, MD, Harvard Medical School

Topic: Open Dialogue

Anne Wildermuth, PhD, PA-C, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Topic: TBD

 

Katherine (KiKi) G Kennedy, MD, Yale

Topic: Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Gregory Scott Brown, MD, University of Houston

Topic: The Media-Savvy Psychiatrist: The Professional Use of Media to Forward Conversations about Mental Health
Arash Javanbakht, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Topic: Augmented reality and telemedicine to develop a method of providing in vivo treatment for anxiety disorders and PTSD
Ashley Walker, MD, OU-Tulsa

Topic: Physician impairment/suicide
Aviva Olsavsky, MD, University of Colorado

Topic: Parental leave for residents