The Department of Psychiatry provides Psychiatry Grand Rounds and Behavioral Health/Psychology Grand Rounds with the latest updates in clinical treatments and scientific research. Our lectures feature NYU Langone faculty and thought leaders in the most important areas of mental healthcare and research.

Accreditation

NYU Grossman School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians.

We also offer continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists. NYU Langone Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine are recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of CE for licensed psychologists, #PSY-0085.

Psychiatry Grand Rounds Spring 2026 Schedule

Our Psychiatry Grand Rounds are held weekly on Thursdays at 11:00AM via Zoom. These virtual lectures are eligible for continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education (CE) credit for psychologists.

March 5

Treatment Trials in Schizophrenia

René S. Kahn, MD, PhD
Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health System
Mount Sinai Hospital

March 12

Conflicts in Compassion: Psychiatric Treatment Over Objection

Christine DeCaire, MD
NYU Langone Forensic Psychiatry Fellow
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Gerald Jones, MD
NYU Langone Forensic Psychiatry Fellow
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Kate Morant, MD
NYU Langone Forensic Psychiatry Fellow
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Jinal Patel, MD
NYU Langone Forensic Psychiatry Fellow
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Robert “Clayton” Thomas, MD
NYU Langone Forensic Psychiatry Fellow
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Discussant: Raina Aggarwal, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Program Director, Brooklyn-Based Family Health Centers, NYU Langone Psychiatry Residency Program

March 19

Contingency Management: Understanding a Treatment and Why It’s Underutilized

George Danias, MD
Psychiatry Resident PGY-3
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Discussant: Simon A. Sidelnik, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director, Addiction Consultation–Liaison Service

March 26

Alan F. Schatzberg Lecture in Mood Disorders: Why Understanding the Opioid Effects of Ketamine Is Important

Alan F. Schatzberg, MD
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine

April 2

Eric J. Simon Lecture in Translational Neuroscience: To be announced

Dayu Lin, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
NYU Grossman School of Medicine 

April 9

Passover—No Grand Rounds

April 16

Recent Advances in Pediatric Psychopharmacology  

Robert Findling, MD 
Interim Medical Director, VTCC
Chair, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Chair, Department of Psychiatry 
Virginia Treatment Center for Children 

April 23

Marvin Stern Lecture in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry—Hate in the Countertransference as It Applies to Medical Aid in Dying

Philip R. Muskin, MD, MA DLFAPA, LFACLP
Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Consultant in C-L Psychiatry
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

April 30

To be announced

Maurizio Fava, MD
Psychiatrist-In-Chief, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Division of Clinical Research, Mass General Research Institute
Executive Director, Clinical Trials Network and Institute
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

May 7

To be announced

Francis Lee, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

May 14

Complex Case of Seriously Mentally Ill

Kathryn A. Keegan, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

May 21

American Psychological Association Week—No Grand Rounds

May 28

Update on ADHA and SUD

Brooke S. Molina, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science, Pediatrics, and Psychology
University of Pittsburgh

June 4

Overview of the Department

Charles R. Marmar, MD
Peter H. Schub Professor and Chair
Director, Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD
Department of Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine