Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) resident housestaff held their annual Kickball Classic fundraiser on May 19 at Sheraden Park. This year’s theme was “Don’t Stop Ball-ieving,” and the residents raised more than $1,000 to benefit Peoples Oakland, a recovery and wellness center for people living with serious mental illness and co-occurring disorders. The event, organized by resident social action chair...

Wesley Sowers, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, is this year’s recipient of POWER’s Seeds of Hope Award. Dr. Sowers, Director, Center for Public Service Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, will receive the award at POWER Promises – A Night of Hope on June 13 at the Westin Convention Center Hotel. POWER is a nonprofit agency offering trauma-sensitive treatment and support services to women...

Congratulations to Traci M. Kennedy, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow working with Department of Psychiatry faculty mentors Brooke Molina, PhD, and Sarah Pederson, PhD, on receiving a Best Poster Award from the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association (UPPDA). Dr. Kennedy was presented with the award for her presentation “ Does Monitoring ADHD Symptoms Improve Them? A Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary...

Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, recently received a 2018 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, which honors the exceptional contributions that psychiatrists make to improve the lives of people living with mental health conditions. Dr. Rozel has worked in emergency mental health for more than 20 years and is Medical Director of resolve Crisis Network at UPMC...

Prior to the debut of Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why on May 18, an international coalition headed by SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education) developed the online 13 Reasons Why Toolkit to address concerns regarding how the show’s first season portrayed suicide, sexual health, bullying, and other sensitive topics facing today’s youth. Sansea Jacobson, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Child and...

Adriane Soehner, PhD, Assistant Professor, has been selected to receive a Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Depression. The highly competitive awards are given to outstanding postdoctoral researchers or junior faculty in the United States who have demonstrated independent research ability potential and who are planning a career in research related to child and adolescent...

The Emotion Prosthetics Team took second place in Pitt’s first annual Performance Innovation Tournament, designed to stimulate cross-campus collaborations in the area of human performance. As semi-finalists, Greg Siegle, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Kathryn Fantauzzi, CEO and co-founder of the team’s commercial partner Apollo Neuroscience, Inc.; and Psychiatry residents David Rabin, MD, PhD, and Shan Gao...

Congratulations to Tina R. Goldstein, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, on her receipt of the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association (UPPDA) Postdoctoral Mentor Award, which recognizes a faculty member who has engaged in exceptional mentoring of postdoctoral scholars. At Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Dr. Goldstein directs the NIMH-funded Clinical Research Training for Psychologists...