Conferences

Be sure to mark you calendars for Monday, August 12, 2019 and join us for a special conference focusing on "Becoming a Trans Knowledgeable Provider.” The conference will take place in the Connolly Ballroom of Alumni Hall on the University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus. This full-day conference is being organized by the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital’s LGBT Committee. The conference is intended for all behavioral health providers. Continuing education credits will be provided.

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We hope you will join us for the Third Child and Adolescent Bipolar Spectrum Services (CABS) Conference on early identification, risk assessment, and management of bipolar spectrum disorders in youth. The conference will take place on October 3, 2019 at the University Club on the Oakland campus.

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to host MindScapes 2019 on the evening of October 4, 2019. MindScapes blends science and art into one unique event. 

For more information regarding this event, please visit the MindScapes website at www.mindscapespgh.com or email Emily Parker at mindscapespgh@gmail.com or parkerem2@upmc.edu.

On October 10, 2019 the Department of Psychiatry and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital will host the 8th Annual Clinician Educator Showcase. The Showcase provides an important venue for highlighting the many clinical innovations implemented by our faculty and staff and sharing information and strategies on career development and quality improvement initiatives.

Registration is now open for the Alternatives for Families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) Training Program. Participants will receive expert training in an evidence-based, family-centered, trauma-focused treatment and learn about ways to address family conflict, coercion, hostility, aggression, child physical abuse as well as a structured way to teach individual & family skills. 

Register today for the “Stronger Together… Healing the Divide: A Social and Psychological Response to the Tree of Life Shooting” event on November 5, 2019 at the Rodef Shalom Congregation.