I apologize for the somewhat "LinkedIn Inspirational Post" title - but I do anticipate some personal and professional issues/stress as well as positive events this year. My lecture series are both pushed back this year - not sure if that will mean I post more or less on the site. I am continuing to work on a couple of projects but I'm not 100% sure which one will become next academic year's grand rounds topic. In the meantime, I'm trying out having my talks on a separate page - may end up causing issues with my Dropbox account, but for…

Updated the website. Pros include: not looking like a professional site from the 1990s. Floating shapes? More functional? Cons: still kind of boring. Still tweaking settings.  

The agenda for the 2025 American Neuropsychiatric Association Annual Meeting is Toronto has been released: https://anpaonline.org/ Interesting change for this year is that there are two talks going on at once for Thursday / Friday.

I'm having some Wordpress woes, but this is hopefully working - a PPT of my recent talk: I typically try to have most of the information I say somewhere on the slides - always a delicate balance between a boring "reading from the slides but useful reference slides" vs. more flavorful "more minimal slides but then the slides are useless, but I feel like I'm pretty decent at it usually - but this topic had a lot more sidenotes / anecdotes during the actual presentation, so I also tried to put some of them on a notes PDF:

https://www.anpaonline.org/event-5759081 ANPA is in Montreal this year!March 12-15, 2015Le Westin Montreal I've already been practicing some [very basic] French in Duolingo.

Completed my 2024 grand rounds - I have some mixed feelings about it overall, to be honest. I initially wanted to do a broad topic to "get back into it" and re-debut in my department after being on grand rounds haitus for almost 5 years, but that meant it ended up being less polished, slightly rushed, and much material. My original plan to "build sexuality and gender from the ground-up" didn't have enough nuance and either wasn't enough material or was not "clinical" enough, so instead I approached it from a historic perspective of labels. It felt more like a…

In anticipation for the upcoming talk, here is the official Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1yR33FNMH7wAVCRdsqFBsB?si=5b851c381e9e444d 2024 Grand Rounds Playlist The talk itself is a less polished than I typically like for my grand rounds, and definitely too broad of a topic - but hopefully will still be useful.

Title screen of "With" & "As": History & The Conceptualization of Sexuality & Gender I haven't posted much recently - this is a perennial issue, but to my credit I have some excuses this time- (1) focusing on some family things (2) being "off-season" in terms of lectures (3) new computer (4) website woes (5) spending too much time reading and working on a grand rounds. I used to do a grand rounds or similar talk about once / year, but paused in 2018 due to some family changes and tried to restart in 2019 with an "easy one" on…

A great conference this year, with great topics and events! I wish that I had taken more pictures - the only one that I have is this random picture of the prosecco that was at the poster session, which makes the event seem way more formal and bougie than it was. The speakers were great, the bazaar was fun, and the people, as always, were down-to-earth and friendly. The anti-amyloid treatment discussion was one of the most energetic debates I've seen at ANPA; the AI talks were interesting, though simultaneously made me feel like I need to look further into…

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