Melissa P. DelBello, MD, MS

AACAP Annual Meeting 2026

October 26–31, 2026 · Atlanta, GA · Full program

• SymposiumEmerging AI and Imaging Techniques for Diagnosis and Risk Stratification in Pediatric Mood Disorders

  October 28, 2026

  Symposium on AI-assisted and neuroimaging approaches to diagnosing and risk-stratifying pediatric mood disorders, with pediatric bipolar researchers Boris Birmaher, Melissa DelBello, and Manpreet Singh.

  Bipolar DisorderChild & AdolescentDigital Psychiatry & AINeuroscience & Mechanisms

• LectureNeural Response to Social Reward in Youth With Familial Risk for Bipolar Disorder: Markers of Mood Episodes

  October 28, 2026, 14:30–16:30

  Neuroimaging of social reward processing in youth at familial risk for bipolar disorder as a marker of mood episodes.

  Bipolar DisorderChild & AdolescentNeuroscience & Mechanisms

• LectureNeuroimaging Predictors of Placebo Response in Depressed or Anxious Youth With a Family History of Bipolar Disorder

  October 28, 2026, 14:30–16:30

  Anxiety DisordersChild & AdolescentDepressionNeuroscience & Mechanisms

• CourseResearch Institute: Cardiometabolic Connections With Mind, Medication, and Models of Care in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  October 29, 2026

  Research institute on the two-way links between psychiatric illness and cardiometabolic health in youth — including medication-related weight gain, insulin resistance, and dyslipidemia — and how that science should inform treatment planning.

  Antipsychotic PrescribingChild & AdolescentGLP-1 & Metabolic Psychiatry

• LectureMetformin for Overweight and Obese Children With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Treated With Second-Generation Antipsychotics: A Large Pragmatic Study

  October 29, 2026, 08:00–10:00

  Presents a large pragmatic study of metformin for weight gain in children with bipolar spectrum disorders on second-generation antipsychotics.

  Antipsychotic PrescribingBipolar DisorderChild & AdolescentGLP-1 & Metabolic Psychiatry

• PosterPredicting Outpatient Aggression in Adolescents: Comparative Validity of Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents vs School Safety Scale

  October 29, 2026, 10:30–12:30

  Compares two rating tools for how well they predict aggression in adolescents treated in outpatient settings.

  Child & AdolescentEmergency & Acute PsychiatryMeasurement-Based Care & Diagnosis