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The Emotion Prosthetics Team took second place in Pitt’s first annual Performance Innovation Tournament, designed to stimulate cross-campus collaborations in the area of human performance. As semi-finalists, Greg Siegle, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Kathryn Fantauzzi, CEO and co-founder of the team’s commercial partner Apollo Neuroscience, Inc.; and Psychiatry residents David Rabin, MD, PhD, and Shan Gao...

The UPMC Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) has named Kim Kirchner, C-TAGME, Director, Operations for the Office of Residency Training, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, as the 2018 Outstanding Coordinator of the Year. The chief residents nominate candidates for this award, which was presented at the GMEC Annual Coordinators Symposium held April 5, 2018. Kim was selected from coordinators among 139...

Kristen Eckstrand, MD, PhD, Chief Resident, Psychiatry Research Pathway, has been selected by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to participate in the Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators during the 171st APA Annual Meeting on May 5-9, 2018 in New York, NY. She will participate in the Molecular, Translational, Neuroscience research area and will present her project " Ventral Striatal Reward...

For the fourth year, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) has been recognized as a “Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This organization serves as the education arm of America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC also was named...