The 2026 Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Annual Meeting will take place in person on June 4th-6th, 2026 at the Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus.
Professor Dost Öngür will be our keynote speaker. He is the William P. and Henry B. Test Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. His research focuses on clinical course and neuropathology of psychotic disorders. He is also the chairperson of the structure and dimensions subcommittee of the future DSM strategic committee.
The Research and Publication Board has also organized an Invited Address by Dr. Wilson M. Compton, MD, MPE, who serves as the Deputy Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health – the world’s largest funder of research on health aspects of drug use and addiction. His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion.
The program will feature four symposia focused on the HiTOP across the lifespan, missing pieces in the model, further elucidation of the externalizing spectrum, and suicidal behavior. Two roundtable discussions will target both the future of HiTOP measurement and inclusion criteria for psychopathology features in the model. In addition, there will be a range of individual and poster presentations tackling important topics of foundations and model revisions, measurement, genetics and other mechanisms, youth-related issues, and clinical utility and implementation.
There will be networking and mentoring events available at the conference, including a mentor-mentee breakfast, empowerment lunch, and trainee social event.
We also want to make sure that you are all aware that we will be offering CEcredits for the conference, including if you can only attend virtually. Thus, even if you were unable to submit an abstract this year, we still encourage you to consider attending.
We hope you can join us!
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the Chair of the HiTOP Conference Committee, Martin Sellbom (martin.sellbom@monash.edu).
Questions?
If you have any questions about the registration, please contact the Treasurer, Len Simms (ljsimms@buffalo.edu) or the Chair of the Membership Committee, Holly Leven-Aspenson (holly.levin-aspenson@unt.edu).
2026 HiTOP CONFERENCE: PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Thursday June 4th to Saturday June 6th
Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 9:45
Opening Plenary
9:45 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00
Workgroups and Research and Publications Board Updates
11:15 - 12:15
Keynote Address: The Future DSM - an Updateon Current Debates
Dost Öngür (Harvard Medical School)
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:45
Paper Session: Measurement of the HiTOP Model
14:50 - 15:50
Roundtable Group Discussion: Future Directions for the Measurement of the HiTOP model
15:50 - 16:05
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:45
Flash Talk Session #1
16:50 - 18:00
Symposium: Externalizing Psychopathology: Measurement, Structure, and Behavioral Expression
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast and Registration / Mentor-Mentee Breakfast (by invitation)
9:00 - 10:10
Symposium: What’s Missing from HiTOP?
10:10 - 10:25
Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:25
Paper Session: Foundations and Revisions of the HiTOP Model
11:30 - 12:30
Roundtable Discussion: Debating HiTOP's inclusion criteria for psychopathology features
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 15:15
Paper Session: Genetics, Biology, and Mechanisims
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:10
Flash Talk Session #2
16:25 - 17:55
Poster Session
19:00 -
Trainee Social
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
8:45 - 9:55
Symposium: Rethinking Risk: HiTOP and the Heterogeneity of Suicidal Behavior
9:55 - 10:10
Coffee Break
10:10 - 11:10
Research and Publications Board Invited Address and Panel
From Categories to Dimensions: Implications for the Classification of Substance Use Disorders Wilson Compton (National Institute of Drug Abuse)
11:15 - 12:25
Symposium: Toward a hierarchical taxonomy across the lifespan: Integrating neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive dimensions
12:25 - 13:45
Lunch / Empowerment Lunch (by RSVP)
13:45 - 15:15
Paper Session: Adapting HiTOP for Youth
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00
Paper Session: Clinical Utility, Translation, and Implementation
17:05 - 17:30
Trainee Award Ceremony and Closing of Conference
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the Chair of the HiTOP Conference Committee, Martin Sellbom (martin.sellbom@monash.edu).
HiTOP 2026 Conference Hotel Guide
To help make attendance more financially accessible, trainees including post-baccs, graduate students, interns, and postdocs are invited to use the following Google Sheet to coordinate housing.
If you are interested in finding roommates, please feel free to add your information here and connect directly with others who may be a good fit.
