Review past events at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry.
2026

Memoir and the Imagination
February 4, 2026
1:15pm to 2:45pmDeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: Richardson Seminar "Memoir and the Imagination" Vivian Gornick, essayist, memoirist, and literary critic

Psychiatry Grand Rounds - Faculty Council
February 4, 2026
11:00am to 12:00pmLecture Title: "How Psychiatrists and Psychoanalysts work with the United Nations" Sargam Mona Jain, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Alexander Kalogerakis, MD, FABP Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Vice-Chair, American Board of Psychoanalysis Vivian B. Pender MD, DLFAPA Clinical Professor Emerita of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds
January 28, 2026
11:00am to 12:00pm | Uris AuditoriumLecture Title: "Beyond the Psychiatric Diagnosis: Identifying Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Inpatient Psychiatry" Amandeep Jutla, MD Associate Research Scientist Translational Insights for Autism Lab Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute S. Daniella Kevelson, MD Chief of Medical Services, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medicine New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Behavioral Health Center

Second Annual Multidisciplinary Care of Autistic Youth Conference - Day 2
January 23, 2026
8:30am to 4:15pmAutistic youth have complex medical needs, which often require the care of a multidisciplinary team of providers from varied health care specialties. Lack of awareness and understanding of these needs, coupled with a lack of knowledge regarding the management of these health care issues, can result in disparities in the provision of health care services for autistic youth. Through participation in this conference, medical and health care providers can better understand the complex needs and management of this patient population, which will help to close the gap related to the provision of medical and behavioral services, as well as promote equity in health care for these individuals. The panel of providers includes specialists from the following disciplines: psychology, child neurology, sleep medicine, genetics, gastroenterology, speech-language therapy, behavioral therapy, nutrition, psychiatry, developmental pediatrics and family navigators. Providers will present information related to their specialty to provide background information and will discuss indications for referral to their particular specialty for further evaluation and provision of care.

Second Annual Multidisciplinary Care of Autistic Youth Conference - Day 1
January 22, 2026
8:30am to 4:30pmAutistic youth have complex medical needs, which often require the care of a multidisciplinary team of providers from varied health care specialties. Lack of awareness and understanding of these needs, coupled with a lack of knowledge regarding the management of these health care issues, can result in disparities in the provision of health care services for autistic youth. Through participation in this conference, medical and health care providers can better understand the complex needs and management of this patient population, which will help to close the gap related to the provision of medical and behavioral services, as well as promote equity in health care for these individuals. The panel of providers includes specialists from the following disciplines: psychology, child neurology, sleep medicine, genetics, gastroenterology, speech-language therapy, behavioral therapy, nutrition, psychiatry, developmental pediatrics and family navigators. Providers will present information related to their specialty to provide background information and will discuss indications for referral to their particular specialty for further evaluation and provision of care.

Thomas Salmon, Public Health Psychiatrist
January 21, 2026
1:15pm to 2:45pm"Thomas Salmon, Public Health Psychiatrist" Wendy Moffat, Ph.D. Dickinson College Please Register: https://weillcornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/XpvDLKMLRUSlG7V06BEZow

Psychiatry Grand Rounds
January 21, 2026
11:00am to 12:00pmLecture Title: "Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice" Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Psychiatry Grand Rounds
January 14, 2026
11:00am to 12:00pmLecture Title: "Updates in Nicotine and Tobacco Use and Treatments" Jill M. Williams, MD Professor of Psychiatry Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry Rutgers- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, New Jersey

Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement
January 7, 2026
1:15pm to 2:45pmDeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: Richardson Seminar "Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement" Judith Weisenfeld, Ph.D. Princeton University

Psychiatry Grand Rounds
January 7, 2026
11:00am to 12:00pmLecture Title: "Behavioral addiction in the digital age" Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center, and of Neuroscience Yale School of Medicine

