Monday, May 15, 9:00am - 6:00pm
(8:00am-9:00am - Breakfast and Registration)
The Kaye Playhouse
Hunter College of the City University of New York
MORNING SPEAKERS
Special Speaker: Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD
Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
What is the Role of Chronic Stress in Minority Health and Health Disparities?
Keynote Speaker: Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience
Director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression
Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Science
A Convergent Stress Vulnerability Pathway Encoded by Emergent Spatiotemporal Dynamics
Allyson K. Friedman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Activating Resilience Mechanisms: A Novel Approach to Treating Depression
Conor Liston, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine
Prefrontal Cortical Network Dynamics in Chronic Stress and Hyperexcitable Brain States
AFTERNOON SPEAKERS
Regina Sullivan, PhD
Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
Maternal Control of the Infant Brain: Lessons from an Animal Model
Nim Tottenham, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University
Early Experiences and Cortical-Subcortical Brain Development in Humans
Tanja Jovanovic, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Resilience in the Aftermath of Civilian Trauma: Is Activation of Inhibitory Brain Circuits Protective?
George A Bonanno, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Loss, Trauma and Resilience: From Heterogeneity to Flexibility
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Francis Lee, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry, Professor in the Department of Pharmacology
and Attending Psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Pre-register by WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017 (includes free light lunch).
On-site registration will be available (does not include lunch).
POSTER SESSION WITH CASH AWARDS and NEW THIS YEAR IS OUR DATA BLITZ!
Submit a poster or Data Blitz presentation slide by THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 for consideration.
This event is FREE and open to the public
Please click HERE to register and submit an abstract.
SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS
Hunter College, CUNY; Hunter College Center for Translational and Basic Research (CTBR); Clinical & Translational Science Center (CTSC), Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM);
including its Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing; Cornell University Cooperative Extension in NYC; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Hospital for Special Surgery
This symposium is supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant #8 G12 MD007599) and the Weill Cornell Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) (Grant #2UL1TR000457) of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the NIH
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