Psychiatric Disorders: From Genome to Phenome

Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Summarize progress in identifying the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders; 2. Discuss examples of how the integration of genomic and neuroimaging data can provide insights into the biological basis of psychiatric disorders; 3. Discuss how “big data” approaches, enabled by biobanking and electronic health records, may accelerate discovery and clinical applications in psychiatric research.

• Dr Jordan Smoller, MGH Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He is Associate Chief for Research in the MGH Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the MGH Center for Genomic Medicine. Dr. Smoller is a Tepper Family MGH Research Scholar and also serves as Director of the Omics Unit of the MGH Division of Clinical Research and co-Director of the Partners HealthCare Biobank at MGH