Join us on September 26, 2025 for our first Meet the PI series lecture featuring the research of Adriane Soehner, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Trained as a clinical psychologist and affective neuroscientist, Dr. Soehner’s research integrates neurodevelopment, sleep, and mood disorders. She uses novel methodological, statistical, and experimental methodologies to answer critical questions about the role of sleep-circadian process in emotion regulation and dysfunction in youth and young adults, with the goal of elucidating treatment targets for sleep and circadian health during sensitive developmental periods. Dr. Soehner was the first to demonstrate that actigraphy-assessed sleep was associated with brain maturation, and she has shown that that brain-sleep relationships differ with age. She has also employed advanced statistical methods to examine dimensional sleep health. She is the principal investigator (PI) for multiple awards from the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) and the contact PI for a multi-site NIMH U01 award focused on applying computational methods to identify sleep signatures predictive of mental health outcomes among youth in pediatric primary care.
Join us in person in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium or via Zoom using the following information:
Zoom Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91529641057
Passcode: 937319
For More Information. Please contact Shardai Key Ward at keysj4@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.
