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Daniel Buysse, MD, Receives University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute Marlin Mickle Outstanding Innovator Award

Dr. Daniel Buysse

Congratulations to Daniel Buysse, MD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Clinical and Translational Science, and UPMC Endowed Chair in Sleep Medicine), who has received the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute Marlin Mickle Outstanding Innovator Award, presented to a Pitt faculty member who has demonstrated a sustained commitment to innovation throughout a distinguished career. Dr. Buysse...

Publications by Department of Psychiatry Faculty Rank Among the Top 1% of Cited Works in 2024 

Drs. Thomas Karikari and Victor Villemagne

Congratulations to Thomas Karikari, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Endowed Faculty Fellow in Peripheral Biomarkers for Brain Diseases), and Victor Villemagne, MD (Levidow-Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry), who have been named 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, based on their publications ranking in the top 1% by citations for...

Pitt Psychiatry Investigator Kelly Beck, PhD Receives YourMomCares Research Award

Kelly Beck, PhD Accepts Your Mom Cares Award

Congratulations to Kelly Beck, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has received the 2024 YourMomCares Brilliance in Research Award. YourMomCares is a kids’ mental health nonprofit, founded by the moms of musicians, actors, and athletes, to fund innovations in kids’ mental health and wellbeing. Dr. Beck’s project focuses on the Schools Unified in Neurodiversity (SUN) Project, designing school classrooms and...

Jill Glausier, PhD, Honored by the National Institutes of Health NeuroBioBank

Dr. Jill Glausier

Congratulations to Jill Glausier, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NeuroBioBank, a national resource for investigators using human post-mortem brain tissue and related biospecimens for their research. Dr. Glausier is the inaugural recipient of the NIH NeuroBioBank Award of Excellence, which was presented at the NIH NeuroBioBank Annual...

University of Pittsburgh Awards Tenure to Mary Torregrossa, PhD

Dr. Mary Torregrossa

We are delighted to announce that Mary Torregrossa, PhD, has received conferral of tenure at the rank of associate professor by the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Torregrossa is a leading scholar in the field of addiction neuroscience. Her research focuses on understanding how motivational, cognitive, and learning and memory systems are altered in substance use disorders. Her goal is to identify interventions that...

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