Faculty

Please join us in congratulating Abigail Schlesinger, MD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), Charles Kahn, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Elizabeth Kistler, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who have received 2024 UPMC Physician Excellence Awards. Honorees will be celebrated during the Dr. Loren Roth Quality and Patient Safety Awards later this month. Dr. Schlesinger received a...

The annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference, now in its 40th year, presented the latest clinical and research findings to an audience of 338 psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, service coordinators, researchers, and mental health policy administrators, as well as to patients and families. K.N. Roy Chengappa, MD (Professor of Psychiatry) serves as course director for the conference and leads...

Pitt Psychiatry consultation-liaison (C-L) faculty and trainees attended the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) annual meeting and presented 9 symposia/workshops, 11 posters, and 5 oral papers. Travel Award Congratulations to Isaiah Crum, MD (PGY3) who received an ACLP trainee travel award. Presentations Twenty-five Department of Psychiatry presentations covered a range of topics including trauma...

Congratulations to the most recent graduates of the Clinician-Educator Faculty Development Program (CEFDP)! The CEFDP is a Department of Psychiatry professional development opportunity for early-career clinician-educators, specially designed to enhance clinical and academic skills and to foster peer network connections. Because the transition to a faculty position in an academic medical center can be challenging...

The Department of Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to the physicians below, who join our clinician-educator faculty at the rank of assistant professor. Alex Israel, MD Dr. Israel received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and following a residency in general psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) in the Academic-Administrator, Clinician-Educator Track, he...