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Grand Rounds

UNMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds provides high-quality professional education for clinical staff, house officers, medical students, trainees, and interested members of the campus community. The series features leading regional and national experts presenting key topics in mental health, including complex clinical conditions, public health and policy, workforce development, interdisciplinary care, and emerging therapies.

Grand Rounds aims to advance knowledge, enhance skills, foster collaboration, and introduce new perspectives while maintaining the highest standards of educational quality and freedom from commercial bias. Sessions are held twice monthly at noon, typically on the second and fourth Wednesdays, and are available both in person at Poynter Hall and via Zoom.

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 up to 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; opportunities to improve quality of life for athletes on and off the field

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 Public Health Leadership: Prevention, Policy and Practice

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: Where Care Is Scarce: Building Global Child Mental Health Systems in Darjeeling, Manila, and Back Home

Margaret Chisolm, MD, John Hopkins

Topic: Permission to Wonder: Using Museum-based Teaching to Activate Transformational Learning

Amy Cheung, MD, PhD, Yale University

Topic: Food4Thought

Noshene Ranjbar, MD, University of Arizona

Topic: Integrative Psychiatry: Mechanisms, Applications, & Opportunities

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

Topic: More than Good Intentions: Mentorship and the Reality of Scholarly Activity

 

Elizabeth Penner, MD, University of Utah

Topic: Four Paws, One Therapeutic Alliance: Integrating a Facility Dog into Psychiatric Care

Edwin Williamson, MD, Vanderbilt

Topic: What have we learned from 15 Years of Cannabis Legalization

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