As part of the 2024 Annual Meeting, the NAM hosted a scientific symposium titled, “Bridging Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Mental Health” on October 21, 2024. The event was held both virtually and in person at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC.
Scientific Symposium (Monday, October 21) Program Features:
Keynote address — 10:20 – 10:50 am
Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA
U.S. Surgeon General
Panel 1: Key Social Drivers Affecting Mental Health and Substance Use — 10:50 am – 12:05 pm
Moderator: Margarita Alegria, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Departments of Medicine & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Panelists:
Tami Benton, MD
Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Anne Case, PhD, MPA
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University
Douglas A. Gentile, PhD
Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Ward Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Director, Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai
Panel 2: Emerging Science and Innovation for Therapies — 1:30 – 2:55 pm
Moderator: Kaf Dzirasa, MD, PhD
A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Panelists:
Huda Akil, PhD
Gardner Distinguished University Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, The Michigan Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD
Redleaf Endowed Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain; Professor, Institute of Child Development, College of Education and Human and Development; and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, University of Minnesota
John Krystal, MD
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Helen S. Mayberg, MD
Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics and Director, Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine
Matthew State, MD, PhD
Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Fransisco
Panel 3: Delivery of Service and Access to Equitable Mental Health Care — 3:10 – 4:25 pm
Moderator: Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Panelists:
Richard Frank, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard University
Dakotah Lane, MD
Health Director, Lumni Nation
Ann Marie T. Sullivan, MD
Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health
Kenneth Wells, MD, MPH
David Weil Endowed Professor, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, David Geffen School of Medicine; Staff Psychiatrist Greater Los Angeles VA
President’s Forum: Transformative Solutions in Mental Health: Forging a Future of Access and Equity — 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Moderator: Victor J. Dzau, MD
President, National Academy of Medicine
Panelists:
Donald S. Beyer Jr
Congressman, 8th District of Virginia
Anita Everett, MD, DFAPA
Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Ann Garland, PhD
Professor Emerita (in process), Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego
Daniel H. Gillison, Jr
CEO, National Alliance on Mental Illness
K. Ranga Krishnan, MBBS
Chairman, National Medical Research Council Singapore; and Retired, CEO Rush University System for Health
Kathleen Sebelius, MPA
President and CEO, Sebelius Resources LLC
Additional panelists to be announced
Introductions and Awards
In addition to the scientific program, the 2024 NAM Annual Meeting will welcome the 2023 class of NAM members, as well as the 2024 class of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows, NAM Fellows, NAM Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence, Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence, Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars, Inaugural State Health Policy Fellows, and the 2024 International Health Policy Fellow. The Annual Meeting will also feature the presentation of the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for Advancement of Health Care, the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, the David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine, the NAM Member Awards, and the NAM Cecil Awards.
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