Faculty

Please join us in congratulating Andrea DiMartini, MD on her promotion to Professor of Psychiatry and Surgery. Following her residency at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC), Dr. DiMartini was appointed to the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry faculty in 1991. She was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and also holds secondary faculty appointments in the Department of...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant of up to $14 million to a research team co-led by Dr. Alison Hipwell to study the preconception effects of stress on childhood development. The grant is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) initiative, which has awarded $157 million in NIH grants to support dozens of longitudinal, cohort studies...

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce the promotion of Carol M. Greco, PhD to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Greco is an accomplished clinical scientist and educator who has a national and international reputation in the area of mindfulness. She held positions at the University of Virginia Medical Center before embarking on her...

Three members of the Department of Psychiatry faculty have been selected from a large pool of applicants to participate in the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Medical Education Certificate (MERC) Program. The MERC program aims to help medical education leaders to learn research skills that will enhance their ability to develop and implement medical education research projects. Priya Gopalan, MD has...

The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) has selected an article by Ariel Gildengers, MD as one of the best papers published in the journal Bipolar Disorders in 2015. Dr. Gildengers is an active member of the Department of Psychiatry's Geriatric Psychiatry Research program and has published extensively on late-life mood disorders. Dr. Gildengers' paper was one of only three articles selected by a...

Congratulations to Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, PhD on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Dr. Gonzalez-Burgos received his PhD in Neuroscience in 1995, and began his career at the University of Pittsburgh later that year. As a postdoc in the Department of Neuroscience, he studied...