Faculty

Hector Colon Rivera, MD, has been named President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Hispanic Caucus. This position represents an unparalleled window of opportunities to support mental health treatment, growth, and development of proactive policies in today’s challenging health system for Hispanic and Latinos patients, first responders, and physicians. Dr. Colon Rivera is an attending telemedicine...

Rameshwari Tumuluru, MD was instrumental in developing and is Medical Director of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic’s (WPIC’s) Adolescent Acute Partial Hospitalization Program (AAPHP), as well as the program’s Afterschool Intensive Outpatient Program. She pioneered the Virtual School Consultation Initiative, which facilitates maintaining contact with patients’ schools during treatment. Dr. Tumuluru also is...

Gale A. Richardson, PhD focuses her research on the developmental effects of prenatal substance use, specifically focusing on prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) and its long-term effects on offspring. She began this work more than 25 years ago with R29 and R01 funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and has continued to follow the study’s diverse cohort of women, whose offspring are now in their mid...

Anne Germain, PhD is an internationally recognized pioneer and leader in clinical and translational sleep research in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her research focuses on the pathophysiology, consequences, and treatments of sleep disturbances comorbid with chronic stress-related psychiatric disorders with a specific emphasis on PTSD in military populations. Dr. Germain’s work has led to improvements in the...

Following 44 years of distinguished service to the Department of Psychiatry and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Loren Roth, MD, MPH was recognized and awarded emeritus status at a special reception following the Department’s Annual Research Day held June 7. Dr. Roth is Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Clinic Policy and Planning, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Emeritus Distinguished...

Dean Salisbury, PhD is an international expert in the field of pathology and pathophysiology in early psychosis. His primary research focus is understanding the neurophysiological and MRI structural and functional measures of impaired sensation, perception, and basic memory function in psychosis to facilitate early identification of the disorder. He helped to change the conceptualization of schizophrenia as a...