Faculty

Heather M Joseph

Heather M Joseph, DO

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email
Website
Youth and Family Research Program

Education & Training

DO
Medicine, Ohio University, College of Osteopathic Medicine
Psychiatry, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Specialty Certifications

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

Professional Affiliations

Member, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Member, American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders

Selected Honors & Awards

Junior Investigator Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Klingenstein Third Generation Fellowship in ADHD,

Research Interests

Infant and toddler attention; Early risk signals; neurodevelopmental disorders
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Joseph HM, Kennedy TM, Gnagy EM, Perlman SB, Pelham WE & Molina BS. (2019) Fathers with childhood ADHD, parenting, and their young children's behavior: Offspring of the Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study (PALS). Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 50(1), 35-44.
  2. Joseph HM, Farmer C, Kipp H, Kolko D, Aman M, McGinley J, ... & Molina BS (2019) Attendance and engagement in parent training predict child behavioral outcomes in children pharmacologically treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and severe aggression. Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, 29(2), 90-99.
  3. Molina BS, Kipp HL, Joseph HM, Engster SA, Harty SC, Dawkins M, ... & Bangalore SS (2019) Stimulant diversion risk among college students treated for ADHD: Primary care provider prevention training. Academic Pediatrics, S1876-2859(18)30551-5.

Education Interests

Research mentorship; Resident & postdoctoral education
Selected Education Publications & Products
  1. Gopalan P, Glance J, Valpey R, Joseph H & Shenai N. (2018) Development of a women's mental health curriculum and evolution to a Women's Mental Health Area of Concentration in a psychiatry residency program. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 21(1), 113-116.

Pitt Psychiatry Investigators Receive YourMomCares Research Awards

Pitt Faculty Presented with YourMomCares Award

Congratulations to Heather Joseph, DO (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), who received the inaugural YourMomCares Brilliance in Research Award. YourMomCares is a kids’ mental health nonprofit, founded by the moms of musicians, actors and athletes, to fund innovations in kids’ mental health and wellbeing. Candice Biernesser, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Rachel Vaughn-Coaxum, PhD...

Pitt Psychiatry Faculty Members & Residents Recognized at American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting

Pitt Psychiatry Faculty Members & Residents AACAP Collage

The 70th annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), held in October 2023 highlighted and honored the innovative clinical and research achievements of Pitt Psychiatry faculty and trainees. AACAP Distinguished Fellows Heather Joseph, DO (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), and Justin Schreiber, DO, MPH (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics) were named...

M-PIRE: The Psychiatry Maternal Perinatal Infant Research Collaborative

Drs. Rachel Kolko Conlon and Heather Joseph

Two years ago, Rachel Kolko Conlon, PhD (Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Heather Joseph, DO (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), were looking for opportunities to merge their mutual research interests in perinatal and infant mental health. They formed the Psychiatry Maternal Perinatal Infant Research Collaborative, which brings together faculty and trainees with both research and...

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: Mother–Child Neural Synchronization Is Time Linked to Mother–Child Positive Affective State Matching

Researcher and Child with Headsets On

In the first years of life, affective state matching, in which mothers and children imitate and elaborate on each other’s positive emotional expressions—through shared smiling, mutual eye gaze, back-and-forth vocalizations, and joint play—is a hallmark of early mother-child interactions. In addition, positive affective state matching also appears to promote child emotional self-regulation through the process in...

The Interaction Between Infant Negative Emotionality and Cognition Predicts ADHD-Related Behaviors in Toddlerhood

Heather Joseph, DO

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder. Children with ADHD followed to adulthood have been found to have lifelong impairments in educational, occupational, and interpersonal domains even if symptoms subside. ADHD is commonly identified in childhood, and affective and cognitive characteristics that are identifiable in infancy could be signals of risk for...