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Annual Investigators Meeting


2024 Annual Investigators Meeting | 2023 | 2022

June 13, 2024, Reception
7:30 – 10:30 PM
Reception (Including Appetizers, Carving, Pasta, and Dessert Stations)
June 14, 2024, Annual Meeting
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks

Linda Brady, PhD; Director, Division Neuroscience & Basic Behavioral Science
Shelli Avenevoli, PhD; Deputy Director of the National Institute of Mental Health

9:15 – 10:30 AM
Session 1: AMP SCZ Early Finding: Baseline Data

Nora Penzel, PhD; MGH, Harvard Medical School
The impact of cannabis legalization on the association between cannabis use and attenuated psychotic symptoms – results from the worldwide AMP SCZ study.
Andrew (Jin Soo) Byun, PhD (candidate); BIDMC, Harvard Medical School
Exploring digital phenotyping data in AMP SCZ: baseline behavioral features and clustering results.
Josh Nguyen, PhD (candidate); Orygen, The University of Melbourne
Suicide prediction in a clinical high risk cohort using machine learning.

10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 AM
Keynote Speaker

Lars Lau Raket, PhD; Eli Lilly
Biomarker profiles for Alzheimer’s disease: applications and pitfalls.

11:45 – 1:30 PM
Lunch and Coffee
1:30 – 2:45 PM
Session 2: AMP SCZ Early Findings: Baseline Data

Dylan Hughes, PhD (candidate); UCLA
Differentiating gender expansivity from psychosis risk in AMP SCZ: the mediating role of discrimination.
Luis Alameda, MD, PhD; Lausanne, University Hospital
Exploring the clinical and functional correlates of childhood trauma in Clinical High Risk for psychosis patients: results from the AMP SCZ study.
Justin T. Baker, MD, PhD; McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Linking digital measures to conventional clinical ratings in AMP SCZ

2:45 – 3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Session 3: Outreach and Lived Experience

Brandon Staglin, Co-founder Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer, One Mind
Carlos A. Larrauri, JD, MPA, MSN, National Alliance on Mental Illness
Best practices & insights from lived experience in AMP SCZ
Tina Kapur, PhD, BWH, Harvard Medical School
Results from the first “AMP SCZ Days” pre-meeting hackathon

Pre-Meeting Hackathon: Will begin on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 2 p.m. and will conclude on Thursday, June 13, 2024 by 3 p.m.


Last Reviewed on June 6, 2024