Tips for Avoiding Common Mistakes When Prescribing and Delivering Psychiatric Medications
Gina Perez, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Tanya Fabian, PhD, PharmD Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
Angeleki Zecopoulos, PharmD PGY2, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
We will be kicking off the Pitt Psychiatry lecture series on September 11, 2026 with the first presentation in our Clinical Psychopharmacology Lecture Series hosted by Gina Perez, MD and her colleagues, Angeleki Zecopoulos, PharmD and Tanya Fabian, PhD, PharmD.
This presentation will focus on how to avoid common mistakes when prescribing and delivering psychiatric medications. Details regarding this grand rounds will be posted to this webpage as planning progresses.
Questions: Please contact Shardai Key Ward at keysj4@upmc.edu.
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