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AACAP Presents Faith Rowland, MD with Educational Outreach Program Award The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has selected Faith Rowland, MD, to receive an Educational Outreach Program Award. The award provides the opportunity for child and adolescent psychiatry residents to receive a formal overview to the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, establish child and adolescent...

Residents Awarded PROCAP Grants Nasuh Malas, MD, MPH Heather Liebherr, DO The Pittsburgh Regional Organization for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (PROCAP) has selected Nasuh Malas, MD, MPH and Heather Liebherr, DO as the recipients of two grants from the organization. As part of their awards, they will attend the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Orlando, FL in...

U.S News & World Report Ranks WPIC in Top 10 Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC) has once again been named one of the top 10 psychiatry programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. In its 2013-2014 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, U.S. News & World Report ranked WPIC at #8 on the list of top psychiatry programs in the country -up from ninth place on the previous year's Honor Roll. WPIC and the...

Joseph Tasosa, MD, MBA Awarded APA/SAMHSA Fellowship Dr. Joseph Tasosa, a PGY-3 resident at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at UPMC, has been selected for the American Psychiatric Association/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Minority Fellowship Program. Dr. Tasosa earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and an MBA and a Master...

Register now for the Second Annual Clinician Educator Showcase, scheduled for Thursday, October 17, 2013. The showcase is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC). Join us for an afternoon of learning, sharing and networking. This important annual event takes place in the auditorium and classrooms located on the second floor of...

WPIC Homeless Continuum Team Selected for HAP Award Congratulations to the Homeless Continuum Team of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC) on the selection of the Housing First! program by the Hospital & Healthcare Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for the 2013 Community Benefits Achievement Award. This Housing First! Program was selected from a total of 131 entries submitted for consideration...