Faculty

Congratulations to Jody Glance, MD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), who has been accepted to the Association of American Medical Colleges Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar. The Mid-Career Seminar is designed for women physicians and scientists in academic institutions with demonstrated leadership ability. Dr. Glance holds multiple clinical and educational leadership positions at UPMC and...

We are delighted to announce that Andrea Goldschmidt, PhD, has received conferral of tenure at the rank of associate professor by the University of Pittsburgh. An expert in eating disorders and obesity research, Dr. Goldschmidt focuses on understanding eating behaviors that predict adverse weight-related outcomes, particularly in children and adolescents with elevated weight status. Among Dr. Goldschmidt’s key...

We are delighted to announce that Kymberly Young, PhD, has received conferral of tenure at the rank of associate professor by the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Young is an expert in the neural mechanisms of depression, and her work focuses on altered autobiographical memory in the illness, the translation of mechanistic findings from those findings to neurofeedback strategies, and the development of scalable, cost...

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce that two faculty members, Beatriz Luna, PhD, and Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab), have been elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to...

Please join us in congratulating Abigail Schlesinger, MD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), Charles Kahn, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Elizabeth Kistler, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who have received 2024 UPMC Physician Excellence Awards. Honorees will be celebrated during the Dr. Loren Roth Quality and Patient Safety Awards later this month. Dr. Schlesinger received a...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Varad Deshmukh, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Deshmukh received his MD from the University of Queensland School of Medicine – Ochsner Clinical School (Australia). At Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, he completed residency training in psychiatry, serving as chief resident of the adult psychiatry residency training...