Faculty

Drs. James Tew and Alexis Fertig Appointed Leaders of Clinician Educator Faculty Development Program The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce the appointment of James Tew, Jr., MD and Alexis Fertig, MD as the new Director and Co-Director of the Clinician Educator Faculty Development Program. Established in 2011, the Clinician Educator Faculty Development Program is designed to provide newer Department of...

Christopher Kline, PhD Appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has appointed Christopher Kline, PhD as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Kline is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he earned a PhD in Exercise Science from the Arnold School of Public Health. As a trainee in the Chronobiology Laboratory of Dr. Shawn Youngstedt, he led...

Please join us in welcoming Leslie Horton, PhD to the Department of Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Horton earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Kwapil where her research focused on the study of social dysfunction in young adults with schizotypy. She is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology Internship program at Western Psychiatric...

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to welcome Lori Scott, PhD to its faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Scott is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where she earned a Master?s degree (2007) and a doctorate degree (2011) in Clinical Psychology. She first became interested in the study of emotion dysregulation, aggression, and borderline personality disorder as a student at Penn State...

Drs. David Brent and William Klunk Elected to the School of Medicine Executive Committee of the Faculty David Brent, MD The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce that two of its faculty members have been elected as representatives to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Executive Committee of the Faculty. David Brent, MD, Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies and Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics...

Martica Hall, PhD Selected for Strategic Research Award by American Sleep Medicine Foundation The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) has presented Martica Hall, PhD with their Strategic Research Award. This highly competitive program selects only three projects each year to support and is designed to support research aimed at improving quality of health care delivery in the field of sleep medicine. Through...