Faculty

David Brent, MD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Science and Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies), has received the Lifetime Achievement Research Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). This award honors suicide prevention researchers whose career and body of work have had a significant and broad impact on the field of suicide...

We are delighted to announce that Daniel Buysse, MD, Beatriz Luna, PhD, and Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab ), have each been appointed Distinguished Professor by the University of Pittsburgh. A distinguished professorship constitutes the highest honor that the University can accord a member of the professoriate. Daniel Buysse, MD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and UPMC Endowed Chair in Sleep Medicine) Dr...

Congratulations to James Latronica, DO (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has been named to Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED)’s 2022 Top Physicians Under 40 List, which recognizes the commonwealth’s most talented early-career physicians. Dr. Latronica joined the Pitt Psychiatry faculty in 2021, having completed his family medicine residency at Clarion Hospital (Clarion, PA), followed by an addiction...

We are delighted to announce that Alison Hipwell, PhD, PsyD, has been appointed Tenured Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology by the University of Pittsburgh. A nationally and internationally recognized pioneer in the study of mental health of mothers and children, Dr. Hipwell’s research focuses on transgenerational influences on postpartum psychopathology and early parenting, as well as developmental origins and...

We are pleased to announce that Alfredo Sklar, MD, PhD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Sklar received his MD and PhD at the University of Florida. He completed his residency at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital in the Psychiatry Research Pathway, where he served as chief resident from 2019-2020. He then completed his postdoctoral training at Pitt in the National Institute of Mental...

Congratulations to Zach Freyberg, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has been elected a member of The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)! Founded in 1908, the ASCI is one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit honor societies of physician-scientists. The Society is dedicated to the advancement of research that extends our understanding and improves the treatment of diseases of all...