SPEAKERS.
(Listed alphabetically)

Huda Akil, PhD
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Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor of Molecular Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
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Day 1 Keynote Speaker, Wednesday, June 9, 9 - 9:50am

Randy P. Auerbach, PhD, ABPP
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Co-Director, Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression, Columbia University
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Director, Translational Research on Affective Disorders and Suicide Laboratory
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Associate Professor at Columbia University
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Day 1, Session 1, Wednesday, June 9, 10 - 11:15am
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Day 2 Opening Remarks, Wednesday, June 16, 8:50 - 9:00am

Lourival Baptista-Neto, MD
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Vice Chair for Clinical Services, Department of Psychiatry

Maura Boldrini, MD
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Medical College
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Director of the Human Neurobiology laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute

Elias Dakwar, MD
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Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Christine Denny, PhD
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Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Robert Gibbons, PhD
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Blum-Riese Professor and a Pritzker Scholar at the University of Chicago
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Director of the Center for Health Statistics, the University of Chicago

David Hellerstein, MD
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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Director of the Depression Evaluation Service, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Amir Levine, MD
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University

Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD
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Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Columbia University Medical Center of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital

J. John Mann, MD
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Co-Director, Columbia Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression
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The Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Columbia University

David C. Mohr, PhD
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Director, Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs)
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Professor of Preventive Medicine (Behavioral Medicine), Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Laura Mufson, PhD
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Professor of medical psychology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Associate Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Co-director of the Office of Clinical Psychology at CUIMC
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Director of Clinical Psychology at New York State Psychiatric Institute

Lauren Peccoralo, MD, MPH
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Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Well-Being and Development
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Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Mary Phillips, MD
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Foundation-Emmerling Endowed Chair in psychotic Disorders
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Professor in Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science in the University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Posner, MD
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Co-Director of the Center for Intergenerational Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)
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Suzanne Crosby Murphy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry/Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Ravi Shah, MD
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Medical Director, Columbia Psychiatry Faculty Practice Organization
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center


Helen Blair Simpson, MD, PhD
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Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center
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Director of Center for Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders at Columbia University Medical Center
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Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute
Barbara H. Stanley, PhD
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Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Director of the Suicide Prevention Training, Implementation and Evaluation for the Center for Practice Innovation and Research Scientist in Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute


Steven Roose, MD
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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University
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Director of the Neuropsychiatry Research Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute​
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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Director of the Depression Evaluation Service, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

M. Elizabeth Sublette, MD, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, in the Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology

Golnaz Tabibnia, PhD
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Assistant Research Faculty, University of California – Irvine

Jeff Thompson, PhD
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Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Detective, Mental Health and Wellness Coordinator, New York City Police Department (NYPD)
Myrna Weissman, PhD
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Professor of epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
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Chief of the Division of Translational Epidemiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute


Jennifer Wild, PhD
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Associate Professor, University of Oxford, UK
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NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Senior Research Fellow
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Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders & Trauma
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Clinical Advisor, The Ambulance Staff Charity, UK

Carlos Zarate Jr, MD
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Chief Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health