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We are pleased to announce that Hader Mansour, MD, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Mansour received his medical degree and PhD in psychiatric genetics from Mansoura University in Egypt, then came to the University of Pittsburgh for postdoctoral training. He serves as medical director of the Addiction Medicine Services Dual Diagnosis unit at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), which treats individuals who have a primary mental health diagnosis and a co-occurring severe addictive disorder.

Dr. Mansour is an outstanding clinician, and has been honored with multiple awards for clinical care. As medical director of the Dual Diagnosis unit, he has focused on improving systems of care delivery. Notably, he acquired a grant to develop an award-winning patient safety program that increases education about and the distribution of naloxone to mitigate overdose deaths following hospital discharge. This program is now a part of daily inpatient operations on multiple WPH inpatient units, and he has also created a training, “Embracing Narcan: Implementing a Life-Saving Approach on a Dual Diagnosis Unit,” which reaches individuals across Pennsylvania.

An outstanding teacher, Dr. Mansour has taught and mentored learners including graduate and medical students, as well as more than 450 residents. He is a three-time recipient of the WPH Exemplary Teaching Service Award, and has received the Pitt School of Medicine Outstanding Medical Student Education Award, and the Clerkship Preceptor of the Year Award. In addition, he received the Preceptor of the Year in Behavioral Health Award, from the Pitt Department of Physician Assistant Studies, for supervising physician assistant students completing their clinical rotation at WPH. Medical students working with Dr. Mansour frequently use the phrase “one of the best” to describe his teaching. Dr. Mansour is additionally an outstanding mentor, and has worked with multiple residents, as well as provided research mentorship to undergraduate and graduate students, and visiting scholars. He served as mentor for a medical student Longitudinal Research Project focused on prevention and treatment to reduce fatal opioid overdose.

While Dr. Mansour is a long-time clinician-educator, he contributed to multiple research projects early in his career, working primarily in the area of psychiatric genetics. Among other projects, he served as co-investigator on a National Institute of Mental Health R01 focused on combining genetic and neurobiologic/neuroimaging paradigms enabling detection and localization of genes that modulate susceptibility to schizophrenia and related phenotypes. Dr. Mansour has successfully disseminated his research from these studies, as well as his expertise as a clinician, in multiple peer-reviewed journal articles.

“Dr. Mansour is an exceptionally superb clinician, administrator, and educator, who has appropriately received numerous well-deserved awards recognizing his achievements in these areas,” said David Lewis, MD (Chair, Department of Psychiatry). “Dr. Mansour is also well known for his compassion, commitment, thoughtful guidance, and intellectual curiosity, all of which enhance his outstanding skills as a clinician-educator.”

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Mansour!