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Robert Hudak, MD, primarily works with adults with obsessive compulsive disorder at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), but during the last four years he has also treated patients through WPH’s telepsychiatry program, which averages 10,000 visits annually. Recently, Dr. Hudak traveled to the rural outpatient clinic that serves the patients he treats via telepsychiatry. The trip provided Dr. Hudak with the...

This summer marks the 10th year of the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, funded by the NIMH Conte Center for Translational Mental Health Research. The competitive 10-week summer program provides undergraduate students studying neuroscience, biology and psychology, among other fields, the opportunity to conduct hands-on, cutting-edge neuroscience research under the mentorship of clinical and basic...

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce a new, interdisciplinary predoctoral training program, supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. The Bioengineering in Psychiatry Training Program will prepare students with backgrounds in engineering and other quantitative sciences for careers in mental health research. The program, which capitalizes on existing University of Pittsburgh research...

Dr. Rameshwari V. Tumuluru, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, is Medical Director of the Adolescent Acute Partial Hospitalization Program (AAPHP) at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), as well as the afterschool Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). She has devoted her career to community-based care for children and adolescents. In 2017, Dr. Tumuluru received a grant from The Beckwith Institute to create an on...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new podcast, Psychiatry Advances, from UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). WPH is a national leader in the innovative treatment of mental health and addictive disorders. Psychiatry Advances presents original research and patient-centered programs at the cutting edge of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. Host Loren Roth, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor Emeritus...

The Department of Psychiatry and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) extend a warm welcome to the newest members of our Psychiatry Residency Program. The new residents will enter one of our four residency tracks: General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Triple Board and Family Medicine/Psychiatry. Our program has a longstanding reputation for excellence, and those who matched with us are superb...