Events

We are kicking off our Pitt Psychiatry Lecture Series with a Special Guest Lecture by Keri Martinowich, PhD. Dr. Martinowich is a Lead Investigator at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Martinowich received a B.A. in International Relations from the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The Brain, Behavior, and Cancer Seminar Series kicks off the academic year with a presentation by Galen E. Switzer, PhD on September 14, 2022 at noon via Zoom.

We are honored to welcome Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, MA, PhD to the Department on September 16, 2022 as our special guest speaker for the Irene Jakab Memorial Lecture. This virtual lecture will be streamed via Zoom.

The Department hosts its first Clinical Grand Rounds of the academic year on September 30th at noon. Join experts from the Pitt School of Medicine and UPMC for a discussion of the impact of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision on perinatal mental health and reproductive risk.

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.

Registration is now open for the 12th Annual Behavioral Health and Aging Conference, “Improving Quality of Life," which will take place on October 13, 2022. There are options to attend either virtually via Zoom or in-person at the Cumberland Woods Village Conference Center in Allison Park, PA.