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. MacDonald is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in his field, creating an essential liaison between synaptic proteomics and psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia, by studying the proteome of the human brain and developing tools to characterize it. He is currently the principal investigator of an NIMH-funded R01 examining synaptic protein networks, genetic risk, and spine loss in schizophrenia and has also collaborated on a variety of federally funded grants within the Department of Psychiatry and across other departments at Pitt, including work on Alzheimer’s research.
This lecture will be a hybrid event.
You may attend Dr. MacDonald's lecture in the auditorium on the second floor of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital wearing a mask or participate via Zoom. To attend via Zoom, click on this link and enter the following information:
Meeting ID: 971 2843 0163
Passcode: 332398
For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick at patrickfm@upmc.edu.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS. The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours. In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference. WPH is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPH maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist. These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal. For more information, call (412) 204-9085.
