Faculty

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members who have joined our Department: Jihui Lee, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Lee earned her PhD in biostatistics at Columbia University, and completed postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (Department of Healthcare Policy and Research). Dr. Lee’s research focuses on the analysis of...

We are pleased to announce that Jessie Northrup, PhD, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Northrup earned her PhD in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, and conducted her clinical psychology internship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Her research focuses on emotion regulation in individuals with...

We are delighted to announce that Victor Villemagne, MD (Professor of Psychiatry), has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Aging Mind Foundation Award for his project on in vivo assessment of neuroimmune response to Alzheimer’s disease pathology and neurodegeneration. The highly competitive, annually awarded grant is given to a scientific research study that seeks to elucidate the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and...

We are delighted to announce that Marta Peciña, MD, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Peciña earned her MD, and her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Navarra in Spain. She completed her psychiatry residency at the University of Navarra Medical Center, and postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at the University of Michigan. In...

Congratulations to Ryan Peterson, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who will assume the role of Director of the Psychiatry Clerkship for medical students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine on July 1, 2022. Dr. Peterson will succeed Neeta Shenai, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has served as clerkship director for three years. The Clerkship provides third- and fourth-year medical...

We are delighted to announce that Robert Sweet, MD (UPMC Endowed Professor in Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology and Clinical and Translational Science), has received the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Research Mentorship Award. This prestigious award honors an academic psychiatrist who has fostered the pursuit of student research through direct mentorship of individual students or by the...