Our Meet the PI lecture series continues on January 21, 2022 with Lori Scott, PhD as our featured speaker. Dr. Scott is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Scott’s research focuses on interpersonal and affective processes that confer risk for mood-dependent behaviors such as self-harm and aggression. The goal of her work is to develop improved assessment tools, identify novel points of intervention, and develop personalized just-in-time interventions to improve mental health outcomes. She uses multiple methods in her research to measure interpersonal and affective processes, including experience sampling, laboratory paradigms, psychophysiology, salivary biomarkers, and timeline follow-back interviews. Dr. Scott has particularly extensive training and expertise in the use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and in advanced methods for analysis of the resulting intensive longitudinal data. In addition, Dr. Scott’s research has increasingly focused on the use of innovative technology and analytic techniques for predicting suicide risk in real time (e.g., passive mobile sensing, ambulatory physiological assessment using wearable sensors, analysis of voice samples). These methods have the potential to shed light on objective warning signs in the suicidal process and inform the development of novel just-in-time personalized interventions to prevent suicide attempts.

Our lectures will take place via Zoom due to current COVID19 safety guidelines. 

Participate via Zoom. Click on this Zoom Link; Meeting ID:  936 8164 5805; Passcode:  393689

For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick at patrickfm@upmc.edu. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS. The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours. In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference. WPH is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPH maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist. These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal. For more information, call (412) 204-9085.