Faculty

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new clinical faculty members: Samantha Sahi, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Sahi earned her MD from the University of San Francisco School of Medicine, and completed psychiatry residency training at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, where she served as chief resident for ambulatory services. Dr. Sahi's clinical interests include collaborative care, autism...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to three new clinical faculty members: Patrick Buckley, MD, MBA (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Buckley received his MD and MBA from the University of Virginia in 2018, then came to Pittsburgh for psychiatry residency training at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) in the Academic Administrator Clinician Educator (AACE) Track. He served as Chief Resident of...

Please join us in congratulating Benjamin Handen, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry), who has received the 2023 American Psychological Association (APA) Division 33 Edgar A. Doll Award. Division 33 of the APA is dedicated to advancing psychological research, professional education, and clinical services that increase quality of life in individuals with intellectual & developmental disabilities/autism spectrum disorder...

Please join us in congratulating Danella Hafeman, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), who has received the 2023 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Gerald R. Klerman Award. The Klerman award honors outstanding clinical research achievement by a BBRF young investigator. Dr. Hafeman is a clinical expert in pediatric mood disorders and her research focuses on the prediction of bipolar disorder in...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Feng Li, MD, PhD (Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Li received his MD in clinical medicine from Shandong First Medical University (2001) and his PhD in endocrinology and metabolism from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine in China (2012). He completed residency training at Shanghai Xin-Hua Hospital in the Shanghai...

We are delighted to announce that Layla Banihashemi, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Banihashemi earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh. She then joined the Department of Psychiatry as a postdoctoral scholar in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute T32 training program in cardiovascular behavioral...