Hope Over the Horizon: Improving Depression Outcomes and Reducing Suicide Risk
Presented by Columbia Psychiatry’s Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression and made possible by support from the Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation
Please join us for a symposium aimed at battling stigma, disseminating information about the latest evidence-based care, and helping build interdisciplinary collaboration.
Columbia Psychiatry’s leading experts will share insights into clinical research initiatives with a focus on work related to depression and suicide that are being conducted in the medical center’s own neighborhood of Washington Heights.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Andrew Solomon, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and the arts.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS
Randy P. Auerbach, PhD, ABPP
Professor
Co-Director, Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression
Adrian Jacques H. Ambrose, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Senior Medical Director, ColumbiaDoctors Psychiatry
J. John Mann, MD
Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience (in Psychiatry and in Radiology)
Co-Director, Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression
Christine Denny, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
Depression is a global public health crisis and impacts more than 300 million people worldwide. Youth and adolescents are particularly impacted, with rising rates of mental illness and suicide rising in high school and college students. When left untreated, its impact can be devastating for patients and their families.
The event is free and open to the public.
RSVP by January 22
[email protected] or call 212-304-7222
