The Department is pleased to welcome Kristine Wilckens, PhD as our first speaker in our Meet the PI lecture series this academic year on September 13, 2024.
Dr. Wilckens is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, and completed postdoctoral research training in the Department’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Clinical and Translational Research Training in Geriatric Mental Health T32 program. Dr. Wilckens’s research incorporates her expertise in both sleep health and geriatric psychiatry. She employs a combination of observational and experimental methods, including cutting-edge imaging techniques, to examine the relationships between sleep, cognitive aging, and brain health, particularly executive function. She has found that more continuous and deeper sleep, characterized by slow-wave activity, promotes memory processing and executive function. She has also related sleep changes to functional imaging markers of executive function and Alzheimer’s disease, including studies using positron emission tomography. Dr. Wilckens has published her research in top journals, and has been invited to present her research at numerous meetings including the National Institute on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Centers Fall Meeting. In addition, she is highly involved in service activities with the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, the Sleep Research Society, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation, and the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment.
Join us in person in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium or attend virtually using the following Zoom information:
Zoom Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94418795598
Passcode: 512160
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.
