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The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Class of 2018 has selected Dr. Priyanka Amin as a recipient of the Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching / "Little Apple" Award. She is a second-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry's General Psychiatry Residency Training Program and is one of only six residents selected from approximately 1,700 residents and fellows in ACGME-accredited...

Developmental pruning of excitatory synaptic inputs to parvalbumin interneurons in monkey prefrontal cortex Chung DW, Wills ZP, Fish KN and Lewis DA Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017, 114:E629-E637 Working memory requires efficient excitatory drive to parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons in the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Developmental...

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Reynolds, III on his election to the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Dr. Reynolds (left), seen here with Dr. Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was recognized in a special ceremony at the Association’s annual meeting in Chicago, IL on April 22, 2017. Dr...

The Department of Psychiatry will feature the work of Dr. Katalin Szanto, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, as part of it's Meet the PI lecture series on May 5th at noon in Room S120 of the Starzl Biomedical Science Tower. Dr. Szanto will present on the topic of " Thinking Differently about Suicidal Behavior: Decision Processes, Cognitive Deficits, and Social Reasoning." Dr. Szanto's research focuses on the...

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Pierre Azzam as Associate Program Director for the Psychiatry Residency Program. Dr. Azzam is a graduate of Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) of UPMC and fellowship training in psychosomatic medicine at the Massachusetts General...

Sarah T. Stahl, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, has been presented with the 2017 Barry Lebowitz Early Career Scientist Award by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP). The award is presented by the AAGP to an early career scientist who demonstrates an outstanding academic track record in the field of geriatric mental health. Dr. Stahl?s research focuses on developing and testing lifestyle...