Faculty

Pitt Promotes Dustin Pardini, PhD to Associate Professor of Psychiatry Congratulations to Dustin Pardini, PhD on his appointment to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Dr. Pardini earned his PhD in Child Clinical Psychology in 2003 and completed his clinical psychology internship at the University of Washington in...

The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) Fellowship and Awards Committee has appointed Roberto Ortiz-Aguayo, MD as a Fellow. Status as a Fellow by the organization recognizes the individuals by their peers of their abilities, talents and contributions to the mental health profession. Dr. Ortiz-Aguayo is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and completed the Triple Board Residency...

Congratulations to Dr. Abigail Schlesinger, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and her colleagues on their receipt of the 2014 Silver Award from the American Psychiatric Association. The Psychiatric Services Achievement Awards Committee chose the Children's Community Pediatrics Behavioral Health Services in the Pediatric Medical Home initiative as winner of this...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has appointed Peter Bachman, PhD as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Bachman received his PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2007 from UCLA. As a postdoctoral fellow there, he studied physiological markers of the stress response in people with schizophrenia, and later served as a member of the UCLA faculty and Co-Director of the institution?s Adolescent Brain &...

David Volk, MD, PhD Promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry Congratulations to David Volk, MD, PhD on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. After receiving both his PhD in neuroscience (2002) and his medical degree (2004) from the University of Pittsburgh through its Medical Scientist Training Program, Dr. Volk completed residency...

Dr. David Lewis Receives the 2014 American Psychiatric Association Award for Research in Psychiatry The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has awarded Dr. David Lewis with its most significant research award: The APA Award for Research in Psychiatry. Since 1949, this prize has been awarded annually by the association in recognition of a single distinguished contribution, a body of work, or a lifetime...