Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Trainee Presentations

Please join us in person @ BHP 1233, via Zoom, or via streaming link. These presentations do not qualify for CME credit.

More Than Time Off: Parental Leave, Culture, and the Future of Psychiatry Training 

Cameron Crosse, DO
PGY-4 Psychiatry Resident 

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the current landscape of parental leave policies and summarize the evidence linking parental leave to trainee well-being. 
• Discuss the rationale and structure of creating a psychiatry elective within medical education. 
• Describe the created parental leave elective in its’ current iteration. 

Metabolic Psychiatry: Insulin Signaling, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Glymphatic Clearance in Mood Disorders

Syed Mustafa Hassan, MD
PGY-4 Psychiatry Resident

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the proposed role of brain insulin signaling and metabolic dysfunction in the pathophysiology of mood disorders.
• Describe the role of brain insulin signaling and metabolic dysfunction in the pathophysiology of mood and bipolar disorders.
• Explain how mitochondrial bioenergetic impairment may contribute to stress vulnerability and psychiatric symptom expression.
• Discuss emerging evidence linking glymphatic clearance and aquaporin-4 dysfunction to neuroinflammation and mood pathology.

THESE PRESENTATIONS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

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