Events

The Department of Psychiatry is honored to welcome Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to Pittsburgh as our featured speaker for the Distinguished Scientist Lecture series.

Rene Hen, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Pharmacology, Columbia University will present a Distinguished Scientist Lecture on April 5, 2019 as part of the Department of Psychiatry Lecture Series. Dr. Hen directs the Division of Integrative Neuroscience at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and is a core investigator at Columbia University's Kavli Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Hen’s research examines the contribution of serotonin (5-HT) receptors to pathological states such as depression and anxiety.

The North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (NASSPD) will host its annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA on April 11-13, 2019. The organization is devoted to research concerning personality disorders. 

Please join us for our Meet the PI lecture featuring the research of Howard Aizenstein, MD, PhD on April 12th. Dr. Aizenstein directs the Geriatric Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory and is an expert on the cognitive and affective neuroscience of aging and geriatric brain disorders.

We invite you to join us for the April EBrain Journal Club meeting!

Journal club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in this topic, regardless of discipline or expertise, and we hope to stimulate multidisciplinary discussion and collaboration.

This month, the eBRAIN group and Koldamova lab will take part in the discussion of the following article: 

The Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) program is pleased to announce that the Spring 2019 Comprehenstive Didactic/Experiential Training Program will take place April 30, 2019 through May 2, 2019.