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ZOOM EVENT

The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy

Moiya McTier, Ph.D.

Astrophysicist, folklorist, science communicator, and author

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Ph.D.

Assistant professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire

Sep 12 2022
GRAND ROUNDS + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

GRAND ROUNDS: Reinventing the Mental Health System: Where to Repair and Where to Build

Thomas Insel, MD

Co-founder, Mindstrong Health, and founder, Humanest Care. Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2002-2015.

Rhonda Robinson Beale, MD

Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mental Health Services, UnitedHealth Group

David Schreiber, MD

CEO and co-founder, Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual

May 20 2022
BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

Thomas Insel, MD

Co-founder, Mindstrong Health, and founder, Humanest Care. Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2002-2015.

David Schreiber, MD

CEO and co-founder, Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual

May 19 2022

Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities

Susie Wise, Ph.D.

Designer, author, and educator at the d.school at Stanford University

Morgan Vien, MA

Founder and CEO of Design for Emergence

May 12 2022

Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children

Luma Mufleh

Founder of Fugees Family, Inc.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Tony-nominated producer, and author of the bestseller Dear America.

May 9 2022

Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Theresa Brown, Ph.D., BSN, RN

Nurse and bestselling author

Danielle Ofri, MD, Ph.D.

Physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at New York University

May 5 2022

The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

Todd Kashdan, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology, George Mason University, and bestselling author

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D.

Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author

May 4 2022

Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise

Dana Suskind, M.D.

Pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago

Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.

Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Apr 28 2022

The Power of the Downstate: Recharge Your Life Using Your Body’s Own Restorative Systems

Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Lab

Karen Dobkins, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego and the director of the Human Experience and Awareness Lab (HeaLab)

Apr 25 2022

Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving

Christine Porath, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business

Douglas R. Conant

Founder and CEO of ConantLeadership

Apr 21 2022