News

January 19, 2021

Faculty

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes Elisabeth Salisbury, PhD, to the Faculty

Department Welcomes Elisabeth Salisbury, PhD

Please join us in welcoming Elisabeth Salisbury, PhD, to the Pitt Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Salisbury earned her PhD in biological psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and completed postdoctoral research through a National Institutes of Health training fellowship in respiratory biology, as well as a Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation Fellowship, at the Harvard...

January 15, 2021

Publications

The American Journal of Psychiatry: Diagnosis- and Cell Type-Specific Mitochondrial Functional Pathway Signatures in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share genetic and environmental risk factors, and in some cases, certain clinical features such as cognitive impairments and psychosis. Mitochondrial dysfunction is proposed to contribute to the functional, morphological, and molecular brain alterations that may underlie the common features of these disorders. However, mitochondria are critical for multiple biological processes...

January 11, 2021

Faculty

Psychiatry Faculty Members Selected for UPMC Physician Leadership Essentials

Hippocampal Circuit Dynamics Supporting Episodic Memory

Congratulations to Nolan Hughes, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Vernon Nathaniel, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who have been selected to participate in the UPMC Physician Leadership Essentials program, part of a multi-year comprehensive approach to physician leadership development focusing on multiple interventions to address the development needs of the entire physician employment life...

January 8, 2021

Department

Publications by Department of Psychiatry Faculty Rank Among the Top 1% of Cited Works in 2020

We are pleased to share that three Pitt Psychiatry faculty members have been named 2020 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, based on their publications ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. Congratulations to David Lewis, MD (Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry); Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab) (Pittsburgh Foundation-Emmerling Endowed Chair in Psychotic Disorders...

January 6, 2021

Faculty

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes Akiko Mizuno, PhD, to the Faculty

Dr. Akiko Mizuno Joins Pitt Psychiatry Faculty

Please join us in welcoming Akiko Mizuno, PhD, to the Pitt Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Mizuno earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She joined the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral scholar in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Clinical and Translational Research Training in Geriatric Mental Health T32 program, under the mentorship of Howard Aizenstein, MD...

January 5, 2021

Department

The COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives at Pitt Psychiatry

In late December 2020, UPMC implemented a roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine for its health care workers and staff. At UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), as at other UPMC institutions, patient-facing staff and physicians comprise the first group to receive the vaccine, with nearly 400 doses administered at WPH last week. During this first week in January, an additional 590 individuals are scheduled to receive...