Faculty

Please join us in congratulating Abigail Schlesinger, MD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), Charles Kahn, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Elizabeth Kistler, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who have received 2024 UPMC Physician Excellence Awards. Honorees will be celebrated during the Dr. Loren Roth Quality and Patient Safety Awards later this month. Dr. Schlesinger received a...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Varad Deshmukh, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Deshmukh received his MD from the University of Queensland School of Medicine – Ochsner Clinical School (Australia). At Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, he completed residency training in psychiatry, serving as chief resident of the adult psychiatry residency training...

Congratulations to Morgan Faeder, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology), who has received an Association for Academic Psychiatry Early Career Development Award, which recognizes the achievements and academic promise early-career faculty in psychiatry. Dr. Faeder is an attending psychiatrist with UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH)’s consultation-liaison service, providing clinical care for...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Shinnyi (Cindy) Chou, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Chou earned her MD and a PhD in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She completed her residency training in psychiatry and a child and adolescent psychiatry clinical fellowship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). Dr. Chou then conducted...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new clinical faculty members: Patrick Frailey, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Frailey received his MD From Saint Louis University School of Medicine, then completed psychiatry residency training at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) in the Academic Administrator Clinician Educator track, and served as chief resident for inpatient services. He undertook...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new clinical faculty members: Mark Beuger, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Beuger received his MD from Erasmus University Medical Center at the school of medicine of Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He completed an internship in medicine and psychiatry, and residency training in psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), followed...