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The Department of Psychiatry is delighted to announce results of the 2021 Residency Match for the General Psychiatry, Child, Triple Board, and Family Medicine/Psychiatry tracks. “We are so proud to welcome this group of new doctors into our awesome work family, and want to thank everyone who interviewed candidates or helped in any way during this virtual recruitment season,” said Michael Travis, MD (Senior Director...

Congratulations to Antoine Douaihy, MD (Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine); Neeta Shenai, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry); Daniel Bender, DO (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry); Morgan Faeder, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology); and Kristen Eckstrand, MD, PhD (postdoctoral scholar), who have been honored for excellence in education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine...

“A common approach to health disparities research is to take a sample of Black women, and a sample of white women, and compare them,” said Alison Hipwell, PhD, of a recent National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded R01 focused on the association between perinatal stress and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Black women, which she co-leads with Michele Levine, PhD. “But the current crisis in maternal health and...

Psychiatry residents at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital have the opportunity to serve their communities through elective outpatient clinic rotations in the Pittsburgh area. The Birmingham Free Care Clinic provides primary and acute medical care and other services for patients without health insurance. We spoke with Camille Tastenhoye, MD (PGY3), Daniel Salahuddin, MD, MPH (PGY4), and Jamie Farquhar, MD (PGY3)...

We are exceedingly fortunate that Jeannette South-Paul, MD (Professor and Chair Emeritus, Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine), will join us as the plenary speaker for the Department of Psychiatry Clinician Educator Showcase on March 25, 2021. As Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, Dr. South-Paul oversaw the educational, research, and clinical activities of the undergraduate and...