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“Thoughtful, Considerate, Extremely Effective” – Samantha Stilson Receives UPMC Award for Commitment to Excellence in Service (ACES)

Samantha Stilson Receives UPMC ACE Award

Please join us in congratulating Samantha (Sam) Stilson (Grants Specialist III), who has received a 2025 UPMC Award for Commitment to Excellence in Service (ACES) for her outstanding work in the Department of Psychiatry’s Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC). The prestigious ACES award, received by less than 1% of UPMC staff annually, honors individuals who routinely go above and beyond. Sam’s nomination included...

Pitt Psychiatry Hosts Third Annual Interventional Psychiatry Showcase

Montage of 2026 Interventional Psychiatry Showcase Panelists

The 2026 Department of Psychiatry Interventional Psychiatry Showcase, attended by faculty, staff, and trainees, focused on the use of ketamine and the use of ketosis in psychiatric treatment. Through lively lunchtime roundtables, followed by afternoon presentations and panel discussions, attendees learned about new research using each of these methods, and about their applications for treating a range of...

The Department of Psychiatry Announces the 2026 Psychiatry Residency Match Result

Collage of 2026 - 2027 Pitt Psychiatry PGY1 Residents

The Department of Psychiatry is delighted to announce the results of the 2026 Residency Match for the General Psychiatry, Child, Triple Board, and Family Medicine/Psychiatry tracks. Please welcome the new incoming PGY1 psychiatry residents: GENERAL PSYCHIATRY Katherine Abraham (Baylor College of Medicine) Brianna Brooks (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) Chinemeh Eyiba (University of Pittsburgh School of...

Department of Psychiatry Annual Research Day Abstracts Due April 17

Collage of Research Day Participants

We are now accepting poster presentation abstracts for our Annual Research Day, which will take place on June 11, 2026 at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland. The Department’s 2025 Research Day featured 225 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...

Cutting-Edge, Specialized Psychiatric Treatment at the Center for Interventional Psychiatry

Center for Interventional Psychiatry Photo Mosaic

The UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) Center for Interventional Psychiatry (CIP) outpatient clinic has long provided cutting-edge, specialized treatment for individuals whose psychiatric disorders have not responded to first-line treatment such as psychotherapy and medication. Patients with conditions including treatment-resistant depression, catatonia, persistent mania, difficult-to-treat schizophrenia, and...

The University of Pittsburgh NeuroBioBank Brain and Tissue Repository Renewed by NIH for $10M

The University of Pittsburgh NeuroBioBank (NBB) Brain and Tissue Repository was recently renewed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a five-year, $10M contract. Due to the generosity of donor families, the Pitt NBB is an invaluable resource for investigators using postmortem human brain tissue for research. It is led by director David Lewis, MD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience...

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