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!