Faculty

University Promotes William Klunk, MD, PhD to the Rank of Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Congratulations to William Klunk, MD, PhD on his promotion to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Conferral of distinguished professorship status constitutes the highest honor that the University of Pittsburgh can accord a member of the faculty. Dr. Klunk...

Department of Psychiatry Welcomes New Faculty The Department of Psychiatry-Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) is pleased to welcome the following physicians to the faculty: Christopher R. Doebbelstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. After earning his MD at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Dr. Doebbelstein completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry...

Translational Neuroscience Program Welcomes New Faculty The Department of Psychiatry Translational Neuroscience Program is pleased to welcome John F. Enwright III, PhD, Colleen McClung, PhD and Christopher Verrico, PhD to the faculty. Dr. Enwright, Instructor in Psychiatry, is interested in the mechanisms by which gene expression is altered in psychiatric disorders. In addition to conducting experiments in...

Martin J. Lubetsky, MD Honored as Volunteer of the Year Martin J. Lubetsky, MD. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been selected by the Jewish Residential Services as its 2011 Volunteer of the Year. Jewish Residential Services provides residential and rehabilitative services to people who need support in their everyday lives because of psychiatric or developmental disabilities, through a Clubhouse, recovery...

Department Welcomes Ann D. Cohen, PhD to Faculty Please join us in welcoming Ann D. Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, to the Department. Dr. Cohen earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in 2011. Her primary research interests focus on amyloid deposition in normal elderly and...

Wall Street Journal Features Interviews with Two of the Department?s Prominent Sleep Medicine Researchers The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on gender differences in sleep that featured two of the Department?s prominent sleep medicine researchers, Dr. Daniel Buysse, Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science, and Dr. Wendy Troxel, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and...