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NEW! Apply Now for the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Program
| The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology annually selects distinguished young scientists in the field of neuropsychopharmacology for its annual meeting travel award. Application deadline: May 8 at 5pm Central. | | | | |
Faculty Senate Minutes and Snapshot
Adriane dela Cruz, M.D., Ph.D., serves as our department representative on the Faculty Senate. The minutes and snapshot presentation from the February meeting include information about grant funding changes. Each are linked here and on our SharePoint.
NEW! The March snapshot is now linked here and on SharePoint too.
| | | Compliance Training Deadline Next Week Wednesday, April 16 | Completing the mandatory compliance training helps UT Southwestern promote a culture of excellence, safeguard the institution’s reputation, and create a safer workplace. All employees – faculty, staff, and students – should have received an email on March 3 from Taleo Learn with the training link. | | | Fast Approaching! SOAR Intensive R Grant Writers Workshop Application Deadline | The SOAR Intensive R Grant Writers Workshop application deadline is April 29. Sessions begin June 16 and extend to September. The program includes eight virtual sessions and a mock study section, with grant sections reviewed collaboratively by facilitators and peers. | | |
2025 UT System AI Symposium: Call for Abstracts Extended
The deadline has been extended to April 18 for researchers, clinicians, educators, students, and administrators across the UT system to submit abstracts on diverse applications of AI. The symposium will be in Houston May 15-16. Learn more on their website.
| | | NEW! The Texas Standard news show interviewed Betsy Kennard, Psy.D., about the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network Registry study finding that 40% of Texas youth with depression or suicidal thoughts have ‘problematic’ social media use. | | | Alternate Antidepressant Not Effective for Alzheimer’s Agitation: read the News Release on the work of Tarek K. Rajji, M.D., from a phase three clinical trial. | | | "How Do I Get My Kid to Stop Biting Their Nails?" Read four potential solutions offered by Kaylee Davis-Bordovsky, M.D., in the following article. | | | | | |
NEW! Congratulations to psychiatry resident Allyson Davis, M.D. (pictured left), and triple board resident Aisha Julakanti (pictured right) on their selections for the 2025 Excellence in Family-Oriented Care Award by the Association of Family Psychiatrists!
| | | | | NEW! The American Neuropsychiatric Association honored Kathy Niu, M.D. with its prestigious Career Development Award. | | | | | The American Neuropsychiatric Association selected Chadrick Lane, M.D. as Chair of its Education Committee. | | | | | The Parkland Medical Executive Committee has recognized Aaron Van Wright, M.D., as one of Parkland’s Unsung Physician Heroes. | | | | | NEW! At UT Southwestern's Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee event, the Brain-Body Perceptions Team presented posters on the impact of trauma for adolescents with eating disorders, brain reactivity and connectivity for adults with eating disorders, social perceptions in adolescents with eating disorders, measurement of eating disorder symptoms in both adults and adolescents, and the impact of a novel intervention targeting social processing in eating disorders. Team members include five faculty (Carrie McAdams, Jayme Palka, Melanie Sherman, Urszula Kelley, Jasmine Ghannadpour), one psychology graduate student (Natalie Noebel), three psychiatry residents (Kaylee Schrader, Gisela Gonzalez, Vivianne Oyefusi), five medical students (Sarah Gibson, Linh Lieu, Fariah Mahmood, Rohini Kallianpur, Christine Zhang), and two coordinators (Ava Ryan and Sharon Arthur). Those in bold were available for the photo. | | | | | Carmen Cruz, Psy.D., presented a full day CE workshop on Multicultural and Relational Supervision for the post-doctoral residency training faculty at the Community Health Center in Middletown, Connecticut. | | | Neuropsychologists Christian LoBue, Deborah Gonzalez, Emmanuel Rosario Nieves, and clinical fellow William Goette partnered with Metrocrest Services and the Alzheimer’s Association at a community event to provide memory screenings and interactive sessions about how the brain works, memory loss, practical strategies for cognitive wellness, and local dementia resources, in English and Spanish. | | | O'Donnell Brain Institute Research Day | |
Wednesday, April 16, 8am-5pm, T. Boone Pickens Auditorium: NG3.112
Trainees and faculty will present their OBI-funded research including Sprouts Grants and the Visionary Neuroscience, Neural Scientist Training, and Clinical Neuroscience Scholar programs and a poster competition and networking event is included for all attendees.
| | | Promotion Workshop: Clinician-Educator/Clinician Track | |
Wednesday, April 16, 12-1pm
The Promotion and Tenure Committee ensures faculty members understand the academic advancement timeline and criteria for each distinct academic rank and track.
| | | Women's Health Research Initiative Spring Forum | |
Thursday, April 17, 9:30am to 6pm, South Campus: D1.602
This forum will showcase ongoing work in Women’s Health Research and provide opportunities to interact with basic, translational, and clinical researchers around common themes in women’s health.
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2025 Functional Neurological Disorder Virtual Symposium:
FND Across the Lifespan
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Friday, April 18, 2025; 8:00am to 3:30pm via Zoom
This symposium will feature a focus on FND in pediatric populations, Functional Cognitive Disorder, inpatient management of FND, and many other cutting-edge topics. We welcome all faculty, staff, and trainees interested in learning more. View our linked flyer and schedule. Please register to attend (there is no fee). After clicking the following link, you may need to create an account to sign in.
| | | Strategies for Effective Community Engagement and Infrastructure Development | |
Tuesday, April 29, 12-1pm, via Teams
Presenters: Heather Kitzman, Farra Kahalnik, Saundra Pennington
• Understand the principles of community engagement
• Learn how the UTSW community engagement infrastructure was built (e.g., HealthStreet Program, Community Research Registry, North Texas Community Health Coalition).
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Tuesday, May 13, 12-1pm via Zoom.
Krystal S. Tsosie, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Associate Director of the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center at Arizona State University, will present "Reframing Indigenous Health through Genomic Data Sovereignty and Equity."
| | | Join Psychiatry Team Confabulous on Saturday, May 17, at Grandscape to support changing and saving the lives of individuals with mental health conditions and their loved ones. Our department is an event sponsor. | | | |
Friday, June 6, 8:00am to 3:30pm via Zoom
Focus on personal resilience, rejuvenating, and reconnecting with your passion for academic medicine alongside like-minded colleagues. Email the Office of Faculty Wellness for more information.
| | | KL2 Scholar Program Application Deadline | The KL2 Scholar Program application deadline is June 9. Positions start as early as September 15 for Junior Clinical and Translational Science KL2 Faculty Investigators who show great promise toward becoming independently funded clinical and translational science investigators. | | | |
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