Past DeWitt Wallace Institute Events

Review past events at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry.

2023

Geoff Dyer

Genre, Non-Genre, and the Imagination

November 15, 2023
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Geoff Dyer, acclaimed writer of "The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings," in conversation with Dr. George J. Makari

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Geoff Dyer

"Genre, Non-Genre, and the Imagination"

November 15, 2023
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Geoff Dyer, acclaimed writer of "The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings," in conversation with Dr. George J. Makari

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Youth Suicide Prevention

September 21, 2023
3:15pm

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Join expert clinicians from Weill Cornell Medicine for a panel discussion on suicide prevention for children and adolescents. Gain valuable insights and strategies to support our youth, tailored for school administrators, counselors and teachers.

Featured Panelists

  • Lauren Antler, M.D.

    Dr. Lauren Antler supervises fellows in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Department, providing guidance on psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions. She draws on her unique background as an educator, and work with children and families in educational, recreational and medical settings, to provide compassionate, holistic treatment for a wide range of conditions.     

  • Alexandra Huttle, M.D.

    Dr. Alexandra Huttle provides care for children throughout various stages of their development and support to families to help optimize health and overall well-being. She has been involved in development and implementation of a suicide prevention curriculum for pediatric trainees. She is also currently a Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellow where she will continue to focus her efforts on suicide prevention in the primary care setting.

  • Stephanie Rohrig, Ph.D.

    Dr. Stephanie Rohrig has expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation, ADHD and related conditions in youth, adolescents, and young adults. Her specific research interests include anxiety and school avoidance in youth and emotion dysregulation in parents.

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Dylan Blau Edelstein

"Asylum is God": Maura Lopes Cançado, Brazilian Modernism, and the Permeability of the Asylum Walls

September 20, 2023
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Dylan Blau Edelstein Ph.D. candidate Princeton University

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"Asylum is God": Maura Lopes Cançado, Brazilian Modernism, and the Permeability of the Asylum Walls

September 20, 2023
1:15pm to 1:45pm

Dylan Blau Edelstein, Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University

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Suicide Prevention in Diverse Communities

September 18, 2023
12:00pm | Zoom

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Join the Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Office of Staff Diversity and Inclusion for a panel discussion on suicide prevention in diverse communities. Throughout the conversation we aim to learn how different communities approach the topic of suicide prevention and how they can best find support and support each other.

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Suicide Prevention in Health Care

September 14, 2023
12:00pm | Zoom

suicide prevention for healthcare workers

Join your peers for a panel discussion on suicide prevention specifically tailored to the unique challenges faced by health care workers. Gain valuable insights and practical guidance to promote well-being within the healthcare community.

Featured Panelists

  • Jonathan Avery, M.D.

    Dr. Avery’s primary academic focus is on examining and developing interventions to improve clinicians’ attitudes towards patients with substance use disorders. He focuses on educating all physicians on how to treat individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness. 

  • Sam Boas, M.D.

    Dr. Boas' primary academic and clinical interests are in the improvement of psychiatric education and physician well-being.

  • Michelle H. Loy, M.D.

    Dr. Loy is passionate about listening to and partnering with her patients to better understand the specific physical, psychological, social, environmental, and spiritual influences on their health. She curates a personalized prevention or treatment plan tailored to each individual’s needs, circumstances, philosophy, and season of life.

  • Randy Martin, Ph.D.

    Dr. Randy Martin is a licensed psychologist, behavioral health executive, positive psychologist, human resources/management consultant, Employee Assistance Program manager, thought leader and teaching/training specialist with 36 years of experience impacting the performance, productivity and profitability of Fortune 1000 companies, educational institution, and non-profit organizations.

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Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D.

Jewish Women Psychoanalysts: Between Poland, the Nazis, and the United States

September 6, 2023
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D. Fordham University

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Understanding Mental Health & Resilience

May 18, 2023
12:00pm | Zoom

In recognition of Mental Health Month in May, the Department of Psychiatry is offering a free, virtual event to the Weill Cornell Medicine community on maintaining mental health and cultivating resilience.

Learn the basics of mental health and resilience along with coping strategies and mindfulness practices that can be useful when processing pain, burnout, or everyday stress.

Featured Speaker:

Suza Scalora, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry

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Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., Ph.D.

Psychiatry Grand Rounds - The Carlson Award Lecture

May 17, 2023
11:00am to 12:30pm | A-950 Auditorium

Lecture Title: "Protest Psychosis: What the Race-Based Overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in the 1960s Reveals About Today’s CRT Wars" Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., Ph.D. Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society, Director, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

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