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The Department of Psychiatry is delighted to announce results of the 2025 Residency Match for the General Psychiatry, Child, Triple Board, and Family Medicine/Psychiatry tracks. Please welcome the new class of 2025 PGY1 psychiatry residents: GENERAL PSYCHIATRY • Osasumwen Benjamin (Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University) • Sahar Delavari (Tehran University of Medical Sciences) • Sayna Matinrazm...

We are now accepting poster presentation abstracts for our Annual Research Day, which will take place on June 12, 2025 at Soldiers & Sailors Hall in Oakland. The Department’s 2024 Research Day featured 173 poster presentations! Department of Psychiatry faculty, trainees, and staff are encouraged to submit an abstract for consideration for the poster session. Each trainee and staff poster presenter will be visited...

We are pleased to announce that Ashley Parr, PhD, has been promoted to Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Parr received her PhD in neuroscience from Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada), then came to the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry for postdoctoral training in developmental neuroscience. She joined the Psychiatry faculty in 2022...

Congratulations to Thomas Karikari, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Rebecca Thurston, PhD (Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Women's Health and Dementia and Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science, Epidemiology and Psychology), who have each received a University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award! Dr. Karikari, who received an award for distinguished research in...