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We are pleased to announce that Tina Goldstein, PhD, has been promoted to Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Goldstein earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, having completed her predoctoral clinical internship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). She joined the Pitt Department of Psychiatry as a postdoctoral scholar conducting research in pediatric mood disorders, then was recruited to the Pitt Psychiatry faculty. At WPH, Dr. Goldstein is director of psychotherapy and pediatric mood disorders, and co-director of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Spectrum Services (CABS) clinic. In addition, she co-directs the Services for Teens at Risk (STAR) center, and serves as co-director of the Clinical Psychology Internship Program.

Dr. Goldstein is a leader in research on the clinical care of youth with or at risk for early-onset mood disorders. Her work focuses on risk factors for adverse mood and suicidal outcomes; intervention development and testing, including preventative interventions often based on her studies of risk; and interventions to improve uptake and adherence to evidence-based treatments. She is an expert in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and published the first study to show improvements in youth suicidality with this treatment. 

She currently leads a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 grant focused on the role of sleep health in proximal suicide risk among ultra-high-risk adolescents. Dr. Goldstein is principal investigator (PI) of a second NIMH R01 testing an evidence-based treatment that helps stabilize sleep/circadian patterns for youth at high risk for the development of bipolar disorder due to family history with the illness. She is additionally PI of an R34 study that will enable her to establish interventions that target poor sleep as a risk factor for suicidal behavior in a diverse population of adolescents, with a specific focus on Black youth.

Dr. Goldstein has published her research in top scientific journals, and is a past recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She is a scientific advisor for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a board member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and serves on the board of medical advisors of the Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation. Dr. Goldstein also serves on the International Society for Bipolar Disorders task force on suicide.

Dr. Goldstein is an outstanding educator, and she has been recognized with a Department of Psychiatry Emerging Mentor Award, as well as a University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association Postdoctoral Mentor Award. She co-directs two NIMH-funded T32 postdoctoral training programs, Clinical Research Training for Psychologists, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research. She has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students, psychiatry residents, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career faculty members.

“Dr. Goldstein is a nationally and internationally renowned thought leader in early onset mood disorders and suicidality. Her pioneering research has generated important contributions to our understanding of treatment for bipolar disorder and suicidality in children and adolescents,” said David Lewis, MD (Chair, Department of Psychiatry). “She is also a generous and accomplished mentor, having shaped the Department’s future generation of clinicians and researchers through leadership roles of the Clinical Psychology Internship and two T32 postdoctoral programs. And she has substantial leadership responsibilities at two clinics, where she provides the highest quality of care to challenging and vulnerable populations.”

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Goldstein!