Faculty

This month, the most recent class of early-career clinician-educator faculty graduated from the Clinician-Educator Faculty Development Program (CEFDP), a professional development opportunity for Department of Psychiatry early-career clinician-educators, specially designed to enhance clinical and academic skills, and to foster peer network connections. Because the transition to a faculty position in an academic...

We are delighted to congratulate Colleen McClung, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science), who has received a 2021 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Colvin Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research. Dr. McClung was honored at the recent International Mental Health Research Virtual Symposium, where she delivered a presentation on the relationship between...

We are delighted to announce that David Brent, MD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Science and Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies), has received the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) 2021 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression or Suicide. The award recognizes Dr. Brent’s 2020 article “Brief...

Congratulations to Shelly Kucherer, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has received the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society 2021 Early Career Psychiatrist Award! Dr. Kucherer joined the Pitt Psychiatry faculty in 2019, having completed her psychiatry residency training and a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. She is currently Associate Medical Director, Center for...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to three new faculty members who have joined our Department at the rank of assistant professor: Elizabeth Hale, MD Dr. Hale earned her MD from the University of Toledo College of Medicine, and completed her general psychiatry residency at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), serving as chief resident for ambulatory services. Following residency, Dr. Hale completed a...

We are delighted to announce that Alexandre Dombrovski, MD, has been appointed Tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh. An expert in geriatric psychiatry and suicide, decision science, functional neuroimaging, and computational psychiatry, Dr. Dombrovski studies the neuropsychological basis for how and why a person makes the decision to end their life. Dr. Dombrovski currently...