Events

New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10032 Multipurpose Room, #6602

International Scholars Info Session: An Hour for Cocoa and Questions Please join us to mingle with other members of the international scholar community in the Department of Psychiatry and have a chance to learn from members of the Human Resources offices, the International Students and Scholars Office, and the Office of Fairness, Inclusion, and Professional Development about visa processes and related topics. Visa holders employed by RFMH, NYS, and Columbia are welcome! Coffee, cocoa, and pastries will be served. Pardes Building, Multipurpose Room (6602) & Boardroom (6601), 6th Floor

Roy And Diana Vagelos Education Center, 104 Haven Ave., New York, NY 10032 401

2025 MISBIE Symposium Mitochondrial Psychobiology, Stress, and Health The Mitochondrial Stress, Brain Imaging, and Epigenetics (MiSBIE) Study is an NIMH-funded research platform designed to advance interdisciplinary investigations into brain-body processes, mitochondrial diseases, and the connections between energy and health. Featured Topics Looking inside the brain's mitochondria Immune bioenergetics Dynamic health indicators in mitochondrial disease The energetic cost of stressing out We welcome you to come ideate, discuss future analyses, and develop new collaborations. If you wish to attend - in person or on Zoom - please fill out the MiSBIE Symposium Registration Form CUIMC Vagelos Building, 104 Haven Ave, New York, Room 401

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ACE Master Clinician Mentorship Series Perspectives in Medicine - Doctor as Patient Tomoaki Kato, MD, MBA, MPA, FACS Professor of Surgery Edwin C. and Anne K. Weiskopf Professor of Surgical Oncology Executive Director, Columbia Transplant Initiative Clinical Director of Transplant Services at NYP/Columbia Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Moderator: Sara S. Nash, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center Please join the Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE) for the next Master Clinician Mentorship Series (MCMS) session. This discussion provides an exceptional opportunity to hear a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons master clinician reflect on what it means to experience medicine from the other side of the stethoscope—as a patient. This series was created by the membership of the Academy and designed specifically for the needs of clinical faculty to help them thrive and grow at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. If you consider yourself a clinician, future clinician, or a mid-level provider, please join us for this panel discussion, and learn what you can do to further your career, optimize your practice at Columbia, and meet like-minded peers. AMA CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Seminar on Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry Understanding Suicide, Substance Use Mortality, and Emergency Care Failures in U.S. Immigration Detention Stephanie Rolin, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Howard University This presentation will examine suicide deaths, substance-use-related mortality, and emergency care failures in U.S. immigration detention from 2018–2025. Drawing on federal Detainee Death Reviews, the presentation highlights recognizable warning signs and gaps in mental health and medical care. Opportunities to improve safety for individuals in civil immigration custody will be discussed. To register for this online presentation and receive the Zoom link, please send an email with your name and affiliation to Alfa.Garcia@nyspi.columbia.edu.

New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10032 Hellman Auditorium

Department of Psychiatry/NYSPI Town Hall Please join Dr. Joshua Gordon for an update on the reorganization and other key Department/NYSPI initiatives. We strongly encourage in-person attendance, if possible, to support active engagement and discussion. Zoom is available for those unable to join in person. Pardes Building, Hellman Auditorium, 1st Floor

New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10032 Room 6601

C3N Seminar A Domain-General Neural Mechanism for High-Dimensional Social Perception Jon Freeman, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Columbia University People form a rich set of inferences about other people, ranging from social categories (e.g., gender, race), personality traits (e.g., trustworthiness, dominance), and mental states (e.g., afraid, puzzled). Across behavioral and neuroimaging work, we show that social perception is not a passive extraction of visual features onto a fixed set of universal social dimensions, but a constructive and high-dimensional process shaped by conceptual expectations and higher-order social cognition. Even from a brief glimpse of a face, people spontaneously map others onto multidimensional spaces coding for social categories, personality traits, and mental states which we find implicitly encoded through regions involved in domain-general concept activation and more explicitly encoded through larger cortical systems involved in deliberate social representation. Besides bottom-up perceptual cues, top-down social expectations also have an important role in shaping perceptions. We find that expectations derived from social-conceptual associations systematically distort neural representational geometry, influencing how categories, emotions, traits, and even socially-relevant objects are visually perceived. Together, these findings suggest a domain-general mechanism linking multiple forms of social perception to non-social perception, which allows our perceptions of others to be structured yet flexible—both adaptively and maladaptively—to preconceived beliefs about the social world. Pardes Building, Boardroom, 6th Floor, Room 6601, and via Zoom

New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10032 Multipurpose Room, #6602

HIV Center Rounds Rights, Risks, and Justice: Understanding the LGBTQ/HIV Legal Climate Suzanne Goldberg, JD Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law Columbia Law School Director, Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Suzanne Goldberg is one of the country’s foremost experts on gender and sexuality law and a leading advocate and attorney for the LGBTQ+ community. She co-founded the Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and established Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic when she joined the faculty in 2006. She has served in the U.S. Department of State as senior advisor to the under secretary for civilian security, democracy, and human rights; as senior advisor and legal expert to the special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons at the U.S. Department of State; and as deputy assistant secretary for strategic operations and outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (serving as acting assistant secretary) at the U.S. Department of Education. Pardes Building, Multipurpose Room, 6th Floor (#6602) Advance registration is required for this meeting.

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Second Annual Multidisciplinary Care of Autistic Youth Conference This two-day virtual event offers CME and CE credits for professionals and is also open to parents and caregivers, self-advocates, and members of the community. Autistic youth have complex medical needs, which often require the care of a multidisciplinary team of providers from varied health care specialties. Lack of awareness and understanding of these needs, coupled with a lack of knowledge regarding the management of these health care issues, can result in disparities in the provision of health care services for autistic youth. Through participation in this conference, medical and health care providers can better understand the complex needs and management of this patient population, which will help to close the gap related to the provision of medical and behavioral services, as well as promote equity in health care for these individuals. The panel of providers includes specialists from the following disciplines: psychology, child neurology, sleep medicine, genetics, gastroenterology, speech-language therapy, behavioral therapy, nutrition, psychiatry, developmental pediatrics, legal, and family navigation. Providers will present information related to their specialty to provide background information and will discuss indications for referral to their particular specialty for further evaluation and provision of care. The registration deadline for Day 1 will be Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET and the deadline for Day 2 will be Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Early registration is encouraged to ensure timely access to materials and updates. View the conference brochure for more information, including featured speaker bios.