Faculty

We are pleased to announce that Helmet Karim, PhD, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Karim’s research focuses on the predictive role of the acute neural changes associated with treatment response in major depressive disorder (MDD). He is principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded K01 career development award,...

We are delighted to announce that Erika Forbes, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Psychology and Clinical and Translational Science), and Fabio Ferrarelli MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), have been selected to receive a Laurel E. Zaks Memorial Research Fund award for a collaborative research project focused on treating depression in young people. The Laurel Zaks Fund, established in March 2019...

We are delighted to announce that Gina Perez, MD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Perez is Associate Chief, Behavioral Health Network and Telepsychiatry. As associate chief, she oversees the behavioral health services at UPMC’s 40 network hospitals and community affiliates, which comprise approximately 200 acute psychiatric beds. A...

We are thrilled to announce that Rebecca Price, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), has received a 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award. The award is in the Junior Scholar category, which honors Dr. Price’s great potential by virtue of her high-quality, early-career research contributions, as well as recognition of her national and international prominence as a scholar. Dr. Price’s research focuses...

Please join us in welcoming Elisabeth Salisbury, PhD, to the Pitt Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Salisbury earned her PhD in biological psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and completed postdoctoral research through a National Institutes of Health training fellowship in respiratory biology, as well as a Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation Fellowship, at the Harvard...

Congratulations to Nolan Hughes, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Vernon Nathaniel, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who have been selected to participate in the UPMC Physician Leadership Essentials program, part of a multi-year comprehensive approach to physician leadership development focusing on multiple interventions to address the development needs of the entire physician employment life...