Faculty

January 19, 2018

Faculty

Working for Kids: Building Skills Team Emanates from Innovation Institute

Working for Kids: Building Skills TM, led by Judy Cameron, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry was one of 29 companies to emanate from the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute in 2017. The team is now offering this educational program, which educates communities about child brain development and interventions needed to help children succeed later in life, through Working for Kids: Building Skills LLC. Initially...

January 10, 2018

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Dana Rofey, PhD Appointed Associate Professor by Pitt School of Medicine

Dana Rofey, PhD, has spent her career studying the relations between cognitive, structural, and functional brain status and response to and provision of weight management programs. She has developed an impressive body of interrelated clinical work and programming and scientific studies related to eating, gender identity, and adolescent/early adult health behavior. Her research has been consistently funded by the...

January 1, 2018

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Jessica Levenson, PhD Promoted to Assistant Professor

Jessica Levenson, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist treating adolescents and adults for mood and sleep disorders. Her research interests are designing and evaluating interventions for adolescents that enhance sleep health specifically to promote mental and physical health broadly. She uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to develop stakeholder-informed interventions that are likely to be effective...

December 14, 2017

Faculty

Dr. Rebecca Thurston’s Research Featured in the Journal Menopause and in Forbes Magazine

Dr. Rebecca Thurston’s Research featured in Menopause and Forbes Magazine

Findings by Dr. Rebecca Thurston indicate that traumatic experiences such as being in a serious accident or natural disaster, witnessing a shooting, or experiencing sexual assault or harassment could affect the cardiovascular system. The results of this study were presented by Dr. Thurston at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA and appear in the December issue of the...

December 8, 2017

Faculty

Sansea Jacobson, MD Elected Co-Chair of AACAP Training and Education Committee

Congratulations to Sansea Jacobson, MD on her election as Co-Chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Training and Education Committee. This committee of 13 national leaders, in collaboration with the AACAP Alliance for Learning and Innovation (AALI), is charged with the task of creating and promoting high-quality, innovative educational resources and initiatives to support learners...

December 6, 2017

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Faculty Members Awarded BRAINS Grants from the National Institute of Mental Health

Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD; Judith Morgan, PhD; and Rebecca Price, PhD each received a Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. This year, 17 researchers from around the country received these prestigious awards at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference. The awards support the research and career development of outstanding...