Events

The Department hosts its first Clinical Grand Rounds of the academic year on September 30th at noon. Join experts from the Pitt School of Medicine and UPMC for a discussion of the impact of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision on perinatal mental health and reproductive risk.

Join us for the first Meet the PI lecture of the academic year featuring the research of Matthew MacDonald, PhD. Dr. Matthew MacDonald earned his PhD in pharmacology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Training in Transformative Discovery in Psychiatry T32 program. His research program uses mass spectrometry to analyze protein networks in human post-mortem brain tissue. Dr.

Registration is now open for the 12th Annual Behavioral Health and Aging Conference, “Improving Quality of Life," which will take place on October 13, 2022. There are options to attend either virtually via Zoom or in-person at the Cumberland Woods Village Conference Center in Allison Park, PA.

Mark your calendars and join us for the first Researchers on the Rise lectures of the academic year featuring two of our talented early-career investigators, Traci Kennedy, PhD and Andrea Weinstein, PhD.

The Department welcomes Leanne Williams, PhD as part of its Distinguished Scientist lecture series on October 21st. Dr. Williams completed her PhD in 1996 with a British Council scholarship for study at Oxford University. Prior to joining the Stanford University faculty in 2013 she served as a Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Sydney Medical School and Director of the interdisciplinary Sydney Brain Dynamics Center. Dr.

Our Clinical Grand Rounds series continues on October 28th at noon featuring Ran Li, MD, Oommen Mammen, MD, Stephanie Stepp, PhD, and Tiffany Painter, LCSW. Join us to learn more about how mental health professionals are using Dialectical Pharmacotherapy (DPT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to effectively treat Borderline Personality Disorder