The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes New Faculty Members Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD, and Matthew Geramita, MD, PhD
Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members:
Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)
Dr. Chung earned his MD and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his residency training in psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). Dr. Chung then conducted postdoctoral research training as part of the Department’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Training in Transformative Discovery in Psychiatry T32 training program. Dr. Chung’s research integrates biological and computational studies of neural circuits with the goal of uncovering novel cortical circuit abnormalities in schizophrenia. He also provides clinical care as an attending physician in WPH’s Psychiatric Emergency Intake Services.
Matthew Geramita, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)
Dr. Geramita earned his MD and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh completed his residency training in psychiatry in the Psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). He then conducted postdoctoral research training as part of the Department’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Training in Transformative Discovery in Psychiatry T32 training program. Dr. Geramita’s research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying anxiety and compulsive behaviors using translatable mouse behavioral tasks, computational modeling, optogenetics, and in vivo electrophysiology. He also provides clinical care as an attending physician in WPH’s Center for Interventional Psychiatry.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Chung and Dr. Geramita!