Faculty

The Department of Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to the physicians below, who join our clinician-educator faculty at the rank of assistant professor. Alex Israel, MD Dr. Israel received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and following a residency in general psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) in the Academic-Administrator, Clinician-Educator Track, he...

We are thrilled to announce that Vanessa Brown, PhD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Brown earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech and completed her psychology internship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, followed by the Department of Psychiatry’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Clinical and Translational Research Training in Geriatric...

Please join us in welcoming Yao Wang, PhD, to the Pitt Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Wang received his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Science in Technology of China. He then joined the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral associate under the mentorship of Yanhua Huang, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry) and Yan Dong, PhD (Professor of Neuroscience). His research with Dr. Huang focuses on the...

We are delighted to announce that César Escobar-Viera, MD, PhD, MPH, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Escobar-Viera received his MD from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción School of Medical Sciences in Paraguay. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, and held academic appointments at the Universidad del Pacífico and the...

We are proud to announce that Jason Rosenstock, MD (Professor of Psychiatry), has been appointed Associate Dean for Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Since 2005, Dr. Rosenstock has served as Director, Medical Student Education in the Department of Psychiatry. An outstanding educator in the Department, Dr. Rosenstock has won multiple teaching excellence awards including the...

We are delighted to announce that Cecile Ladouceur, PhD, has been appointed Tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Ladouceur has developed a highly collaborative research program focused on investigating the development of neural systems underlying cognitive, emotional, and social processes in childhood and adolescence, with the goal of potentially informing novel...