Faculty

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to three new faculty members: David Bortz, PhD (Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Bortz received his PhD in behavioral neuroscience from The Ohio State University, then joined the Pitt Department of Neuroscience as a postdoctoral scholar funded by a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. Under the...

We are delighted to announce that Priya Gopalan, MD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology), has received the 2022 Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) Roberts Award for Mentorship, which recognizes psychiatric educators who have supported medical students, residents, and early-career psychiatry faculty in their development as educators and who have, by their...

We are delighted to announce that Meredith Spada, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), has received the 2022 Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) Early Career Development Award, which recognizes promising early-career faculty and provides them with resources to further their academic teaching careers. Dr. Spada earned her MD from Penn State University. She completed residency training in adult psychiatry at...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Piper Carroll, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Carroll earned her MD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2017. After completing general psychiatry residency training at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), Dr. Carroll undertook fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry and community psychiatry at WPH. During residency...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Laurie Compère, PhD (Research Instructor in Psychiatry) Dr. Compère earned her PhD in Psychology and completed two years of postdoctoral research training at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. In 2018, she joined the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral scholar under the mentorship of Kymberly Young, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry)...

We are thrilled to announce that Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), has been awarded an inaugural Pitt Health Sciences Ascending Star Award, which recognizes highly productive, creative, mid-career faculty members from across the Health Sciences. Dr. Ahmari is an expert in the identification of the molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms underlying obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...