Faculty

Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD

Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email
Website
Chung Research Website

Education & Training

MD
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
PhD
Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
General Adult Psychiatry, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Neurophotonics, University of Pittsburgh

Selected Honors & Awards

Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association
Outstanding Resident Award, National Institute of Mental Health
Danny Hurley Schizophrenia Research Award, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

Research Interests

Schizophrenia; Expansion microscopy; Computational modeling
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Chung Y, Dienel SJ, Belch MJ, Fish KN, Ermentrout GB, Lewis DA, Chung DW. Altered Rbfox1-Vamp1 pathway and prefrontal cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia. Molecular psychiatry 2024; 29(5): 1382-1391.
  2. Chung DW, Geramita MA, Lewis DA. Synaptic variability and cortical gamma oscillation power in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2022;179:277-287.
  3. Chung DW, Chung Y, Bazmi HH, Lewis DA. Altered ErbB4 splicing and cortical parvalbumin interneuron dysfunction in schizophrenia and mood disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018;43(12):2478-2486
  4. Chung DW, Wills ZP, Fish KN, Lewis DA. Developmental pruning of excitatory synaptic inputs to parvalbumin interneurons in monkey prefrontal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114:E629-E637.
  5. Chung DW, Fish KN, Lewis DA. Pathological Basis for Deficient Excitatory Drive to Cortical Parvalbumin Interneurons in Schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2016;173:1131-1139.

Clinical Interests

Emergency and crisis services; Psychotic disorders