CMHC News Archive

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and Yale Latino Recovery Colectivo have launched the third year of their Disability Lived Experience Action Network grant.

Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry; and Sina Nikayin, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are featured in the first episode of a four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression from the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) has launched the new National Institutes of Health-funded Recovery Finance Project. The project aims to address the financial well-being of justice-involved people, including those who have been incarcerated with mental health challenges. Organizers, including Annie Harper, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, launched the project April 30 at a press conference on the New Haven Green.

Ezra Griffith, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry, is featured in a new exhibit in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Foundation's Melvin Sabshin, M.D. Library & Archives honoring the contributions that Black psychiatrists have made to APA's history.

Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, writes in Education Next about social and emotional learning, which aims to teach students life skills like emotion and attention regulation, interpersonal conflict resolution, and responsible decision-making.

Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center, of neuroscience and of pharmacology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A professorship has been established at Yale to honor and commemorate the contributions of the late Steven M. Southwick, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on psychological trauma and human resilience. The Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core within Women’s Health Research at Yale Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry.

Alejandra Pulido Saavedra, MD, a postdoctoral associate, was selected to receive a travel award to attend and present her work at the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry (ASHP) annual meeting in New York on May 3 and 4, 2024.

A new Yale study explains why only 65% of patients treated with ketamine respond to therapy.