Events

Mark your calendars and join us for the first Researchers on the Rise lectures of the academic year featuring two of our talented early-career investigators, Traci Kennedy, PhD and Andrea Weinstein, PhD.

The Department welcomes Leanne Williams, PhD as part of its Distinguished Scientist lecture series on October 21st. Dr. Williams completed her PhD in 1996 with a British Council scholarship for study at Oxford University. Prior to joining the Stanford University faculty in 2013 she served as a Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Sydney Medical School and Director of the interdisciplinary Sydney Brain Dynamics Center. Dr.

Our Clinical Grand Rounds series continues on October 28th at noon featuring Ran Li, MD, Oommen Mammen, MD, Stephanie Stepp, PhD, and Tiffany Painter, LCSW. Join us to learn more about how mental health professionals are using Dialectical Pharmacotherapy (DPT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to effectively treat Borderline Personality Disorder

We hope you will join us for our next Distinguished Scientist lecture featuring Jonathan Javitch, MD, PhD. 

Our Meet the PI lecture series continues on November 11th when we will feature the research of Zachary Freyberg, MD, PhD. Dr. Freyberg’s research focuses on improving our understanding of how the mechanisms of dopaminergic neurotransmission are associated with disorders such as addiction, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s disease.

We hope you will join us on November 18, 2022 for the 39th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference. This virtual conference will take place via Zoom. Zoom links, instructions, and information will be sent out a day prior to the event.