2026 Summer Brown Bag Series
2026 Summer Brown Bag Series
Community Conversations
The series aims to increase understanding, reduce stigma, encourage meaningful conversations, and provide participants with knowledge and tools that support wellbeing, and promote healthier communities.
For Department of Psychiatry employees, the sessions can be used to fulfill one or more of your five annual requirements. CEU and CME credits are available.
2026 Schedule
Video recordings will be posted the week after the presentations.
JUL 8
The Breaking Balance Project Community-Based Approaches to Mental Health, Resilience, and Community Well-Being
Speaker: Devin Coleman, CEO, Balanced Hope
JUL 15
Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors from Different Perspectives
Speakers:
Brandon Johnson, MHS, MCHES, Donte Boyd, PhD, MSW, Patrice Robinson,MSM, Alia Henton-Williams and Danielle Harrell, PhD, LCSW
JUL 22
Including Family Members in the
Treatment Plan
Speakers:
Amy C. Baker, MA and Deborah Aylward, BSN, RN
AUG 5
MAID (Medical Aid in Dying) in New York: Understanding the Law, the Clinical Process, and Professional Roles
Moderator: Telva Olivares, MD
Speakers: Robert Horowitz, MD, George Nasra, MD, Yeates Conwell, MD and Michael Scharf, MD
AUG 12
Civic Canopy: Reimagining Trees as Mental Health and Community Infrastructure
Speaker: Andrea Gluckman, MTS
AUG 19
12PM-1PM
Constructive Dialogue Practices
Speakers: Adrienne Morgan, PhD and Cara Wood Harris, MS
Video will be posted soon.