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Please join us in welcoming our new class of PGY1 residents in General Psychiatry, General and Child, Family Medicine and Psychiatry, and Triple Board tracks! In addition, the Office of Residency Training is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Chief Residents: Chief Resident for Inpatient Services – Eileen Borczon, MD Chief Resident for Ambulatory Services – Helene Altmann, MD Chief Resident for the Child Fellowship...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to new faculty member Kelsey Magee, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry). Dr. Magee earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Case Western Reserve University, having completed her clinical psychology internship at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She then came to Pittsburgh for postdoctoral research training in the Department’s National Institute of...

Pitt Psychiatry investigators have recently published studies in Alzheimer's & Dementia. Below is a summary of recent original research on neural factors underlying cognitive and depressive symptoms in late life, sleep and rest–activity rhythms across different cognitive aging pathways, and the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. Altered Triple Network Model...

Pitt Psychiatry’s 2025 Research Day featured 225 poster presentations from faculty, trainees, and staff. Forty-six pairs of faculty members discussed posters with the presenters. During the plenary session, Top Poster Awards were presented to the following recipients: Postdoctoral Scholars Ligia Antezana, PhD Wasiu Balogun, PhD Rayan Mroué, MD Jacques-Yves Campion, MD Caroline Christian, PhD Guilherme Povala, PhD...