Scientific Program Lecturers

Daniel Castellanos, M.D., has spent his career in academic medicine dedicated to the education and training of students, residents and fellows in Psychiatry. He is Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics and Founding Chair of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health at the Florida International University (FIU) Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Since 2015, he has also served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Medicate Education. Dr Castellanos is the Associate Program Director for the Citrus Health Network-FIU Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program.

Jose C. Clemente, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and the Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Seville (Spain), and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japan). During his Ph.D., he developed novel methods to perform comparative analysis of metabolic pathways. He then took a postdoctoral position at the laboratory of Dr. Takashi Gojobori at the National Institute of Genetics (Japan).

Patrick H. Conway, M.D., was the President and CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina from 2017-2019. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Dr. Conway was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014, and he was a White House Fellow and RWJ Clinical Scholar. He completed his pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital Boston and graduated with high honors from Baylor College of Medicine.

Edwin Cook, M.D., is the Director of the Program for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Director of Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Illinois. He has been engaged in clinical service, teaching, and research in autism for over three decades. Dr. Cook is one of the early autism genetics researchers. Co-authors reflect many of the clinicians and researchers he trained and mentored. Throughout his career, he has cared for numerous children, adults, and families affected by autism and intellectual disability and has inspired clinicians to advocate for this underserved population.

Cheryl Corcoran, M.D., is Associate Professor and Program Leader in Psychosis Risk at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is the Director of "Coping with Unique Experiences" (CUE), the psychosis risk program at Mount Sinai. Dr. Corcoran has conducted longitudinal studies of teens and young adults at clinical high risk for psychosis, who have attenuated psychotic symptoms. Dr. Corcoran collaborates with computer scientists to study subtle speech and language features that precede and predict psychosis.

Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., Deputy Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Faculty Member at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Downey has conducted research on sexual orientation, Turner syndrome, and mental health effects of infertility in women. With Dr. Friedman she is the author of Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Anita Everett, M.D., currently serves as the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services in the US, Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. There she oversees the administration of grants that aim to increase access to high quality treatment for persons with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Dr. Everett served as president of the American Psychiatric Association from 2016 to 2017 and has received commendation for her work in national healthcare reform.

Xioaduo Fan, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is Director of the China Mental Health Program and Director of the Psychotic Disorders Clinical and Research Program at UMass. Prior to joining UMass, Dr. Fan was a staff psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School for seven years. Dr. Fan received his medical degree from Peking University in China and MPH degree from Harvard University. In addition, Dr. Fan obtained a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Rosalind Franklin University.

Maurizio Fava, M.D., is Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Director, Division of Clinical Research of the MGH Research Institute, and Executive Director of the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI), and associate dean for clinical and translational research and Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fava is a world leader in the field of depression. He has edited eight books and authored or co-authored more than 800 original articles cited more than 70,000 times in the literature, with an h index of over 130.

Nanette Gartrell, M.D., is Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, and Guest Appointee, University of Amsterdam. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, she completed a psychiatry residency and fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and UCSF. In the 1980s-90s, she led a series of investigations into sexual misconduct by physicians. She is the principal investigator of the ongoing U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, now in its 34th year with a 92% retention rate to date.

Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., received his degrees at the University of California, San Francisco, and completed his psychiatry residency at Columbia University. He joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. He became the director of the National Institute of Mental Health in September, 2016. Dr. Gordon's research focuses on the analysis of neural activity in mice carrying mutations of relevance to psychiatric disease. He employs a range of systems neuroscience techniques, including in vivo anesthetized and awake behaving recordings and optogenetics, the use of light to control neural activity.

John F. Greden, M.D., is the Rachel Upjohn Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Founder and Executive Director of the University of Michigan Depression Center, Founding Chair, National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC), and Research Professor in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan. He served as Chair of Psychiatry at Michigan from 1985 until 2007. Dr. Greden's academic priorities have been the search for biomarkers of Major Depressive Disorders (MDD) and bipolar illnesses, and developing precision health approaches for depressions.

Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D., serves as the inaugural Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, where she is also a professor of Reproductive Biology, Pediatrics, and Law. Prior to this, for seven years, she and her family worked overseas in New Zealand. Dr. Friedman has served as vice-President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), and as Chair of the Law and Psychiatry committee at the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). She has served as editor of Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate, along with the GAP committee.

Billy E. Jones, M.D., M.S., is a senior psychiatrist who has served as President/CEO, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, and as Commissioner, NYC Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services. Previously, he was Medical Director, Lincoln Hospital, and Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, NYMC. Dr. Jones is the author/editor of numerous publications on African American mental health and LGBTQ issues Including the recently published, "BLACK MENTAL HEALTH, Patients, Providers, and Systems."

Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Kernberg is a Past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the author of 13 books and co-author of 12 others.

Kamran Khodakhah, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, as well as a professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the Chair of the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, the Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and holds the Florence and Irving Rubinstein Chair in Neuroscience.

George F. Koob, Ph.D., is currently Director of the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Koob is an authority on drug addiction and stress, he has contributed to our understanding of the neurocircuitry associated with the acute reinforcing effects of drugs of abuse and the neuroadaptations of the reward and stress circuits associated with the transition to addiction.

Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D., is the Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and Head of the Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases at The Rockefeller University, and Senior Physician of The Rockefeller University Hospital. From 1973 until 2008 Dr. Kreek held a Senior Research Scientist Award from NIH-NIDA (K05-00049). From 1987 until 2013, Dr. Kreek was the Principal Investigator and Research Director of an NIH-NIDA P60 Center grant (DA-05130), "Treatment of Addictions: Biological Correlates." She has also held grants from NIAAA, NIDA, and NIMH.

Thomas Lee, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer of Press Ganey, and an internist and cardiologist, who practices at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is a Professor of Medicine, part time, at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining Press Ganey, he served as Network President for Partners Healthcare System and CEO for Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., the integrated delivery system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Sheila LoboPrabhu, M.D., is a staff psychiatrist with expertise in Geriatric Psychiatry at Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She serves on the Texas Medical Association Physician Wellness Committee Regional Education Team. Her work includes numerous articles on physician wellness, caregiving, loneliness, and end-of-life issues. Her books include Supporting the Caregiver in Dementia: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals and Combating Physician Burnout: A Guide for Psychiatrists.

Dolores Malaspina, M.D., M.S., M.S.P.H., is professor pf Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Genetics & Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System, where she directs the "Critical Connections" psychosis research program. She previously was the Anita & Joseph Steckler Chairman and Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Center where she established the Institute of Social and Psychiatric Initiatives (InSPIRES), a multidisciplinary program for research and training, in the Bellevue Hospital Center.

Stephen McLeod-Bryant, M.D., received his BA and MD at the University of Rochester, and completed his residency in psychiatry at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in 1988. He has served on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Medical University of South Carolina, Meharry Medical College, and now at the University of Miami. He has been a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), President of the South Carolina Psychiatric Association, and served as the APA Caucus of Black Psychiatrists' Representative to the APA Assembly for 13 years.

Alice Medalia, M.D., is a Professor and Director of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Univ Irving Medical Center and Clinical Director of Cognitive Health Services for the New York State Office of Mental Health. She is also a member of the Columbia Univ Academy of Clinical Excellence, and the founding director of the Lieber Recovery and Rehabilitation Clinic, a comprehensive psychiatric rehabilitation program for individuals with persistent mental illness.

Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., Ph.D., is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications. He is author of the recent best-selling book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland. Dr. Metzl's other books include The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, and Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality.

Adrienne Mishkin, M.D., M.P.H., completed her MD/MPH at Tulane University, trained in psychiatry at St. Luke's-Roosevelt and specialized in consult-liaison psychiatry at Montefiore hospital before joining the Columbia faculty. She has particular interest in treating patients with co-occurring medical concerns and is the psychiatric liaison to the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. She is also currently enrolled in a Bioethics Master's program through the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics.

H. Steven Moffic, M.D., is an award-winning psychiatrist for his clinical, educational, administrative, and ethical endeavors. In 2016, he received the Administrative Psychiatry Award from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Association of Administrative Psychiatrists. In 2002, he received the one-time Hero of Public Psychiatry recognition from the Speaker of the APA Assembly. Most recently he served on the APA Board of Trustees Work Group on Psychiatrist Wellbeing and Burnout from its inception.

Philip R. Muskin, M.D., M.A., is professor of psychiatry and senior consultant in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is past secretary of the APA.

Carol North, M.D., serves as Medical Director of the Altshuler Center for Education & Research at Metrocare Services in Dallas, Texas. A board-certified, tenured Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, she is Director of the Division of Trauma and Disaster, holding The Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Chair in Crisis Psychiatry. Dr. North has been an international leader in shaping the science of disaster mental health, continuously conducting federally funded research for more than a 3 decades with 3,500 survivors of 15 disasters.

Ananda K. Pandurangi, M.D., M.B.B.S., is Professor of Psychiatry & Adjunct Professor of Radiology @ Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He graduated from JIPMER, Pondicherry, India (MBBS) and did psychiatry residency (MD) at NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. He then completed another psychiatry residency at SUNY, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, and fellowship in schizophrenia research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute & Columbia University, NY. Dr Pandurangi has trained >350 psychiatry residents and has 200+ publications.

Maryland Pao, M.D., is Clinical Director and Deputy Scientific Director of the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. She is board certified in Pediatrics (1994, 2001), General Psychiatry (1994), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1994) and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (2008, 2018). She studies distress and its correlates including suicidal thoughts and behaviors in medically ill patients across the lifespan.

John Peteet, M.D., received his M.D. from Columbia University, completed residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston. For over 40 years he has been a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he has taught and published extensively in the areas of psychosocial oncology, addiction, and the interface between spirituality and medicine.

Kevin Sevarino, M.D., trained in psychiatry in the dual clinical/basic research tract at the Yale School of Medicine. For six years he performed molecular biology studies of cocaine actions and then transitioned to a clinician-educator. He was a Medical Director in the CT VA Healthcare System 2004-2017. He is consulting psychiatrist to Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, CT. and Assoc. Clinical Prof., Yale School of Medicine. He is subspecialty certified in Psychosomatic Medicine (ABPM) and Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and will be President for the Amer. Acad. of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) beginning 01/2020.

Mark Solms, Ph.D., is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and his pioneering use of psychoanalytic methods and theories in contemporary neuroscience. His most recent work has focused on the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. Born in Lüderitz in 1961, he was educated at Pretoria Boys’ School and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He moved to London in 1988, where he worked at University College (Lecturer in Psychology) and the Royal London Hospital (Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery) while he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Geetha Subramaniam, M.D., is the Deputy Director of the Center for Clinical Trials Network at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She is ABPN certified in General, Child and Adolescent and Addiction Psychiatry.

Donna Sudak, M.D., is Professor, Vice Chair for Education, and Director of Psychotherapy Training in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University. She is the Immediate Past-President of AADPRT. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at Drexel University College of Medicine, Dr. Sudak is an adjunct faculty member at the Beck Institute. She is the Past President of The Academy of Cognitive Therapy, the former Editor of the PIPE examination and has served on the Board of Regents of the American College of Psychiatrists.

Ann Marie Sullivan, M.D., is currently Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health. She has focused on early prevention, integration of mental and physical health, reducing disparities and providing access to care for all, and preventing the criminalization of the mentally ill. She held senior leadership roles in the NY City public hospital system, published and presented on critical issues in community psychiatry and is Clinical Professor, Mt Sinai School of Medicine. She has served on the APA Board of Trustees and as Assembly Speaker,and is a Fellow of the NY Academy of Medicine.

Paul Summergrad, M.D., is the Dr. Frances S. Arkin professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and psychiatrist-in-chief at Tufts Medical Center. In 2014-15, Dr. Summergrad served as the 141st president of the American Psychiatric Association, and is a past president of the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry. An international leader in medical psychiatric disorders and care, Dr. Summergrad's research focuses on mood disorders, medical-psychiatric co-morbidity, and health system design.

Richard F. Summers, M.D., is Senior Residency Advisor and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a nationally recognized educator, author and clinician. He is Trustee-at-Large at the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the ACGME Psychiatry Residency Review Committee and a Past President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT). He is currently Chair of the APA Committee on Psychiatrist Wellbeing and Burnout and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA.

Bharat Vatwani, M.D., and his wife Dr. Smitha, both psychiatrists, founded the NGO Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation in 1988 to provide absolutely free service of rescue, sheltered care, psychiatric treatment & rehabilitation for the wandering mentally ill roadside destitutes of India. Currently Shraddha has its own Rehabilitation Center in Karjat, near Mumbai, where 120+ mentally ill destitute are treated and rehabilitated. In last 31 years, Shraddha has reunited 8000+ patients post their recovery with their families spread across India. Dr. Bharat Vatwani received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2018

Nora Volkow, M.D., is currently Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH. Over the past 30 years, she has published more than 770 peer-reviewed articles, more than 95 book chapters, edited four books on brain imaging and addiction and co-edited an Encyclopedia on Neuroscience. She has received many prestigious awards for her work as a researcher and as a leader in the addiction field. Her efforts have been instrumental in transforming the paradigm of drug addiction from that of a behavioral choice to that of a treatable brain disease.

Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2017-2019). Dr. Wagner is an internationally recognized expert in the pharmacological treatment of childhood mood disorders. Her work has contributed to the development of evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents with major depression and bipolar disorder.

Milton L. Wainberg, M.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and the Founding Chair of the Caucus of Global Mental Health and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association. Through federally-funded sources, Dr. Wainberg has expanded the reach of his innovative implementation science efforts bringing research to practice within public mental health systems of care in resource-poor areas of the US and numerous low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. He is training the next generation of mental health clinicians and researchers.

Kirsten Wilkins, M.D., is Associate Professor and Clerkship Director in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She also serves as Executive Director of the Yale Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience. As Chief of the Integrated Care Firm at the West Haven VA, Dr. Wilkins works in outpatient primary care-mental health integration and geriatric psychiatry. She is board-certified in General Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with subspecialty certification in both Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.

Kimberly Yonkers, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry (Primary), Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine. She is Director of the Center for the Wellbeing of Women and Mothers, and Division Director for the Psychological Medicine Service. She has conducted numerous NIMH/NIDA/NICHD studies exploring optimal ways to identify, engage and treat mood disorders and substance use disorders in pregnant and postpartum women.