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The Department of Psychiatry is now accepting abstracts for consideration for poster presentations for its Annual Research Day. If you would like to submit an abstract, click here to access the Call for Abstracts and Abstract Submission Form. The deadline for submission is April 15, 2022. Research Day will take place on Thursday, June 9, 2022, on the Oakland campus. This full-day event is an excellent opportunity...

Congratulations to Alex Israel, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry); Antoine Douaihy, MD (Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine); Julie Kmiec, DO (Associate Professor of Psychiatry); and Jessica Kettel, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who have been honored for excellence in education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Curriculum Colloquium. Each year, the Pitt School of Medicine...

The Department of Psychiatry Office of Residency Training (ORT)’s Respect, Responsibility and Equity in Medicine (RREM) Residency Curriculum is a required, four-year curriculum designed to educate Pitt Psychiatry residents on the social constructs of race and bias, how to serve as allies and advocates, and how to apply these skills and knowledge in the clinical and academic settings. The development of the RREM...

The Department of Psychiatry and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) invite you to attend the 2022 Clinician-Educator Showcase. This virtual event will take place on March 24, 2022, from 12:00-4:30 p.m. This annual event highlights the outstanding work of our clinician-educators, and offers faculty, staff, and trainees the opportunity to learn about promising clinical innovations and the latest quality...

The WoodNext Foundation has committed $6.2 million to fund two research projects related to the association between genetics and sleep disruptions, led by Colleen McClung, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science, and Director, Center for Adolescent Reward, Rhythms and Sleep), and Stephen Chan, MD, PhD, FAHA (Professor of Medicine, and Director, Vascular Medicine Institute). Project 1...

Over the course of three days in early November, the Center for Sleep and Circadian Science hosted the Fall 2021 SWIM (Sleep and Circadian Workshop on Indispensable Methods) Workshop and the Center’s 6th Annual Sleep and Circadian Science Research Day. SWIM is an intensive training program on state-of-the-art sleep and circadian science research methodologies. Twenty-nine trainees from across the US participated in...