Department of Psychiatry
You are Invited to the:
2nd Annual Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium:
Advances in Understanding Resilience and Treating Traumatic Stress
We hope you can join us at the 2nd Annual Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium, held in Goldwurm Auditorium at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Friday, February 7, 2014. The program, entitled Advances in Understanding Resilience and Treating Traumatic Stress, will feature presentations from leading experts including Steven M. Southwick, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Child Study Center; Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Bruce S. McEwen, PhD, Professor at The Rockefeller University; Roger K. Pitman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Yair Bar-Haim, PhD, Professor, School of Psychological Sciences and School of Neurosciences at Tel-Aviv University as well as other distinguished experts from Mount Sinai.
The symposium is part of a broader Departmental and Medical Center initiative to bring to bear basic discoveries in neuroscience, better understand the causes of major psychiatric disorders, and develop innovative treatments. This year’s event is made possible by a generous grant from the Deborah Elkins Foundation, which supports endeavors in medicine and education. The Department of Psychiatry would like to thank the Deborah Elkins Foundation for sponsoring the symposium and Ahron Friedberg, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, for organizing the event.
The Department encourages participants to register beforehand for the Symposium. The fees are as follows:
$125 – Physicians and Health Professionals
$50 – Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) Affiliates
No fee – MSHS Residents and Fellows in Training
No fee – MSHS Full-time and Voluntary Faculty and Staff
Register online at www.mssm.edu/cme/courses. For more information, please email the Office of CME at cme@mssm.edu or call 212-731-7950.
The event will take place at:
Goldwurm Auditorium
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai Health System
1425 Madison Avenue (98th Street & Madison Avenue)
New York, NY 10029
Schedule of Events
Friday, February 7, 2014
8:30-8:45 am
Opening remarks: Wayne K. Goodman, MD
8:45–9:30 am
Keynote address: Steven M. Southwick, MD
9:30–9:45 am
Break
9:45-11:15 am
Panel 1: Translational research in PTSD
Moderator: Roger K. Pitman, MD
Participants: Scott Russo, PhD; Yair Bar-Haim, PhD; Daniela Schiller, PhD
11:15–12:00 pm
Presenter: Bruce McEwen, PhD
Topic: “Remodeling of Brain Architecture: Resilience and Vulnerability to Stressful
Experiences”
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00–1:45 pm
Presenter: Rachel Yehuda, PhD
Topic: “Convergence of human and animal data in relation to resilience”
1:45–2:00 pm
Break
2:00-4:00 pm
Panel 2: Novel treatments for PTSD
Moderator: Dan V. Iosifescu, MD
Participants: James Murrough, MD; Roger K. Pitman, MD; Adriana Feder, MD;
Brian M. Iacoviello, PhD.
4:00-4:30 pm
Concluding remarks and Q/A: Wayne K. Goodman, MD
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Symposium Faculty
Planning Committee/Course Directors
Wayne K. Goodman, MD, Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair of Psychiatry; Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ahron Friedberg, MD, Associate Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Guest Faculty
Yair Bar-Haim, PhD, Professor, School of Psychological Sciences and School of Neurosciences; Head, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University
Bruce S. McEwen, PhD, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor; Head, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University
Roger K. Pitman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Steven M. Southwick, MD, Glenn H. Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry, PTSD and Resilience, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Child Study Center; National Center for PTSD; VA CT Healthcare System
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Faculty
Adriana Feder, MD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry; Associate Director for Research, World Trade Center Mental Health Program
Brian M. Iacoviello, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry; Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
Dan V. Iosifescu, MD, Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program; Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Associate Professor, Neuroscience
James Murrough, MD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry; Assistant Professor, Neuroscience; Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
Scott J. Russo, PhD, Assistant Professor in Neuroscience
Daniela Schiller, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Director, Traumatic Stress Studies Division, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director, PTSD Clinical Research Program and Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology Laboratory; Mental Health Patient Care Center Director, James J. Peters VA Medical Center
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Department of Psychiatry
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