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Pitt Psychiatry at the 2024 Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting

Pitt Psychiatry consultation-liaison (C-L) faculty and trainees attended the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) annual meeting and presented 9 symposia/workshops, 5 posters, and 10 oral papers. 

Awards and Honors

Congratulations to the following individuals: 

  • Morgan Faeder, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology): conferral of ACLP Fellowship;
  • Priyanka Amin, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry): appointed as Emergency Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SIG) co-chair;
  • Patrick Buckley, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry): appointed as Quality and Safety SIG chair;
  • Meredith Spada, MD, MEd (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry): appointed as Women’s Health SIG co-chair;
  • H. Nur Eken, MD (PGY3): ACLP trainee travel awardee.

Presentations

Twenty-four Department of Psychiatry presentations covered a range of topics including innovative approaches in postpartum care; the role of the sports psychiatrist in undergraduate athletics programs; ketamine and esketamine in medical hospital psychiatry; and managing functional neurological disorder in the inpatient medical setting.

Pitt Psychiatry faculty presenters included: 
 
•    Priyanka Amin, MD
•    Patrick Buckley, MD, MBA
•    Mary Amanda Dew, PhD
•    Andrea DiMartini, MD 
•    Eric Golden, MD
•    Priya Gopalan, MD
•    Elizabeth Hale, MD
•    Alex Israel, MD
•    Shelly Kucherer, MD
•    Roberto Leon MD
•    Darcy Moschenross, MD, PhD
•    Ryan Peterson, MD
•    Christopher Plescia, MD
•    Jon Punzi, MD
•    Michael Rudnac, DO
•    Sharvari Shivanekar, MD
•    Meredith Spada, MD, MEd
•    Robin Valpey, MD

 
The following Pitt Psychiatry residents and fellows presented their research:

•    Rachel Brown, MD (PGY2)
•    Erin Driscoll, MD (PGY4)
•    Nur Eken, MD (PGY3)
•    Simran Kaur, MD (PGY1)
•    Richa Lavingia, MD, MPH (PGY4)
•    Alana Peters, MD (C-L Fellow)

Congratulations to all!