Thank you for celebrating with us!
75th Anniversary Events
Our 75th celebrations and activities allowed us to unite as faculty, staff, trainees, alums, department partners, supporters, and community.
We celebrated past accomplishments, reflected on missed opportunities, and imagined what could be possible for the department’s next 25 years.
Neilly Author Series 2022-2023
Dedicated to the Department of Psychiatry in celebration of our 75th Anniversary.
The Network Project
Our social networks influence our well-being in multiple ways (see work of our own Peter Wyman, PhD, using social networks for suicide prevention). Extrapolating on this work, alumni, faculty, and staff participated in a first-of-its-kind departmental social network project!
We constructed visualizations of our departmental network, which were shown at our 75th Anniversary celebration in September 2022.

75th Anniversary Soiree
Sept. 9th
Rochester Museum Science Center

Alumni Breakfast & Tour
Sept. 10tUR School of Medicine
The Past, Present & Future of Biopsychosocial Education, Care, Research and Community Partnerships
How the World Changed UR Psychiatry and UR Psychiatry Changed the World
75th Anniversary Webinar Series

Biopsychosocial 2.0
The Future of Biopsychosocial Care, Discovery, Learning, and Community Partnership

A Conversation with
Harriet A. Washington
January 19, 2022

Using the Biopsychosocial Model to Promote Equitable Care at UR Medicine

Thank you to our 75th Anniversary Committee!
Julie Achtyl, Ann Griepp, Stephanie Bruder, Joanne Cianci, Richard Ciccone, Yeates Conwell, Brenda Geglia, Larry Guttmacher, Colette Hardaway, Jessica Hashim, Laura Inclema, Deborah King, Amanda Lai, Jack McIntyre, Amanda Mihalitsas, Itza Morales, Walid Nassif, Caroline Nestro, EJ Santos, Patrick Seche and Zena Shuber.
Special thanks to URMC Marketing, Public Relations, Advancement, Alumni Relations and the Psych Tech Group.
I am so grateful to have learned the biospychosocial approach from mentors who worked with George Engel and John Romano. I utilize the biopsychosocial approach in every aspect of my care of patients. - EJ Santos, MD, Associate Professor, URMC
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