Yale-NAMI Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health

The annual Yale-NAMI Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health will be held Saturday morning, May 9, at The Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar St., New Haven.

The 2026 Yale Department of Psychiatry Mental Health Advocacy Award will be presented to Steven E. Hyman, MD, core institute member and director of the Program in Brain Health at the Broad Institute. Dr. Hyman served as director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute from 2012 to 2024, and was provost at Harvard University from 2001 to 2011. From 1996 to 2001 he was director of the U.S National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he invested in neuroscience and emerging genomic technologies and initiated a series of large clinical effectiveness trials to inform practice.

The Yale-NAMI conference, held each Spring since 1992, provides an opportunity for community members, patients and their families, and providers to come together and hear about new advances in the care for mental illness from Yale experts.

The event is sponsored by the Yale Department of Psychiatry, the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), and Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health.

Speakers:

Vinod Srihari, MD:“Learning Health Systems for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders”

Kristen Brennand, PhD:“Uncovering the Interplay Between Nature and Nurture in Psychiatric Disorders”

Scott Woods, MD:“Toward the Prevention of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses: The Clinical High Risk Syndrome”

Chyrell Bellamy, PhD & Rev. Robyn Anderson:“We’ve Come this Far by Faith/Choice: The Imani Breakthrough Faithbased Recovery Program”