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Ryan Wagoner, MD Selected for Rappeport Fellowship The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) has awarded a Rappeport Fellowship to Ryan Wagoner, MD, a PGY 3 Resident. The fellowship honors AAPL's founding president, Jonas R. Rappeport, MD, and provides the opportunity for outstanding residents with interests in psychiatry and the law to develop their knowledge and skills. Rappeport Fellows will receive...

Register Now for the 2012 Clinician-Educator Showcase Mark your calendars and join us on Thursday, September 27, 2012 from 12:00pm-4:00pm when the Department of Psychiatry and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) host the first Clinician-Educator Showcase. This unique event will include a plenary session in the WPIC Auditorium featuring three clinical/quality innovations, followed by a series of...

Postdoc Scholars Honored at 2012 SOBP Meeting Jill Glausier, PhD, Receives Travel Award The SOBP annually selects a group of talented young scientists in the field of biological psychiatry to receive Young Investigator Travel Awards. Dr. Jill Glausier, a post-doctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. David Lewis, was one of the six recipients of the domestic travel award this year. The highly competitive merit-based award...

UPPDA Presents Best Poster Award to Salvatore Insana, PhD Congratulations to Salvatore Insana, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department?s Translational Research Training Program in Sleep Medicine, on his selection for a Best Poster Award by the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association (UPPDA). Dr. Insana was presented with the award for his presentation titled Childhood Maltreatment is Associated with...

2012 Research Day Oral Presentations Highlight Work of Four Investigators Oral presentations for this year?s Annual Research Day will feature the work of four faculty representing a broad range of scientific interests. Cynthia Conklin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is investigating subjective, physiological, and behavioral reactivity to drug-related cues in adult smokers. Her work aims to develop new...

Bernie Devlin, PhD Kathryn Roeder, PhD Three papers recently published in the journal Nature provide new insights into the genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Bernie Devlin, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Human Genetics and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and Kathryn Roeder, PhD, Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, performed...