Gretchen L Haas, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Email haasgl@upmc.edu
Education & Training
PhD
Clinical Psychology, Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
MA
Psychology, Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Clinical Psychology (Child), Children's Hospital of Michigan
Clinical Psychology (Adult), VA Medical Center, Allen Park
Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health
Professional Affiliations
Chair, Scientific Council, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Member, American Psychological Association
Member, Society for Biological Psychiatry
Member, Society for Neuroscience
Member, International Early Psychosis Association
Selected Honors & Awards
Research Award for Schizophrenia Research, Levy Foundation Research Award for Schizophrenia Research
Research Interests
Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders; Prodromal indicators of risk for psychosis; Etiology & risk for suicide in psychosis
Selected Research Publications & Products- Pless LL, Mitchell-Miland C, Seo YJ, Bennett CB, Freyberg Z, Haas GL. Psychiatric factors predict type 2 diabetes mellitus in US Veterans. Nature: Schizophrenia, 2025 Apr 17;11(1):63. https://doi: 10.1038/s41537-025-00616-y. PMID: 40240769, PMCID: PMC12003899
- Haudrich EA, Burns EK, Gupta T, Haas GL, Horton LE. The day-to-day influence of trauma exposure and sleep dysfunction on everyday stress in youth at familial high-risk for psychotic disorders. Schizophr Res, 2024 Dec:274:535-544. https://doi: 0.1016/j.schres.2024.10.024. PMID:39586206 PMCID: PMC11803678
- Hill SY, Jones BL, Haas GL. Suicidal ideation and aggression in childhood, genetic variation and young adult depression. J Affect Disord. 2020 Jul 24;276:954-962. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.049. PMID: 32745832
- Horton, LE, Bridgwater, MA, & Haas, GL. Emotion recognition and social skills in child and adolescent offspring of parents with schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2017 22(3), 175185. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2017.1297223
- Haas GL, Garratt LS, Sweeney JA: Delay to first antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: Impact on symptomatology and clinical course of illness. J Psychiatr Res May-Aug 1998, 32(3-4):151-9. PMID: 9793868.
Clinical Interests
Schizophrenia & psychotic disorders; Premorbid & prodromal indicators of risk; Suicidal behavior in schizophrenia
Selected Clinical Publications & Products- Rubin LH, Haas GL, Keshavan MS, Sweeney JA, Maki PM. Sex difference in cognitive response to antipsychotic treatment in frist-episode schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharm, 33(2):290-7, 2008 Jan. PMID: 17392734; PMCID: PMC4394734; NIHMSID: NIHMS478562
- Haas GL, Glick ID, Clarkin JF, Spencer JH, Lewis AB: Gender and schizophrenia outcome: A clinical trial of an inpatient family intervention. Schizophr Bull 1990, 16(2):277-92. PMID: 2197716
- SorecaI, Boudreaux-KellyM, Y, HaasGL.The impact of the global pandemic on Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI): Healthcare utilization and mortality. Behav Sci (Basel), 2024 Apr 24;14(5):356. https://doi: 10.3390/bs14050356. PMID: 38785847 PMCID: PMC11117568
- Inpatient family intervention: a randomized clinical trial. II. Results at hospital discharge. Arch Gen Psychiatry Mar 1988, 45(3):217-24. PMID: 3277578.
- Miranda O, Qi X, Brannock MD, Whitworth R, Kosten T, Ryan ND, Haas GL, Kirisci L, Wang L. Emulating a randomized clinical trial with real-world data to evaluate the effect of antidepressant use in PTSD patients with high suicide risk. Front Psychiatry. 2025 Jan 28;15:1526488. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1526488. PMID: 39935628; PMCID: PMC11811752.
Education Interests
Research mentorship; Medical student/resident education; Psychology internship training
Selected Education Publications & Products- Haas, GL. Suicide. Comprehensive Review of Psychiatry (Psychiatry Board Review) Oakstone Publishing/CME, video lecture series. 2024.
- Kasckow, J., Appelt, C., Haas, G., Huegel, S., Fox, L., Gurklis, J. & Daley, D. Development of a recovery manual for suicidal patients with schizophrenia. Community Ment Health J. 2012 Oct;48(5):564-7. doi: 10.1007/s10597-011-9477-7. Epub 2011 Dec 21. PMID: 22187086 PMCID: PMC3535324 DOI: 10.1007/s10597-011-9477-7
- Haas, GL: Psychotherapeutic interventions for recent-onset schizophrenia: A review and guidelines. Prim Care Companion to J Clin Psychiatry Dec 2000, 7(12):63-8.
- Longenecker JM, Haas GL, Salisbury DF. Hierarchical Symptom Components in Early Psychosis. Schizophr Bull. 2022 Jun 21;48(4):893-901. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbac048. PMID: 35639737; PMCID: PMC9212103.
- Mann JJ, Ellis SP, Waternaux CM, Liu X, Oquendo MA, Malone KM, Brodsky BS, Haas GL, Currier D. Classification trees distinguish suicide attempters in major psychiatric disorders: a model of clinical decision making. J Clin Psychiatry. 2008 Jan;69(1):23-31. doi: 10.4088/jcp.v69n0104. PMID: 18312034; PMCID: PMC3773877.
