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Pitt Psychiatry’s 2026 Research Day featured 221 poster presentations from faculty, trainees, and staff. Seventy-seven faculty members served as discussants for the poster presenters. (Click here to read Part I of our Research Day recap.)

During the plenary session, Top Poster Awards were presented to the following recipients:

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS

Dakota Brockway, PhD
Amy Chan, PhD
Ana Paula Costa, PhD
Victor Crentsil, MD
Raphael de Luca e Tuma, MD, PhD
Alvaro de Oliveira Franco, MD
Soo Youn Kim, PhD
Andreia Rocha, PhD
Taylor Ashley Stowe, PhD
 
 

SCIENCE TRAINEES (GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS)

Alexis Bamfo, BS
Rebecca Cole, BA
Victoria Dionisos, BS
Rowan Hunt, MS
Riley Jouppi, MS
Grace Kollman, BS
Matthew Maier, BS
Pramodh Pappu
Akshita Raghuraman
Morgan Ruliffson, BS
Trevor Staab, BPhil, BS
Katelyn Tran 
Joleen Wong
Destiny Wright, BS

MEDICAL TRAINEES (RESIDENTS AND MEDICAL STUDENTS)

Alexandre Pain Diaz, MD, PhD
Douglas Teixeira Leffa, MD, PhD
Hannah Kline, MD, PhD
 
 

RESEARCH STAFF

Jackie Adedokun, BS
Sophia Arruda da Costa E Silva
Michelle Berry, MPS
Rebecca Cohen, BS
Marian Herboso, BSEd 
Sabine Janssen, BS
Jack Kavanagh, MPhil
Maya Lewis, MS
Robert Raeder, MSc, MA
Emily Russell, BS
Keeley Scullin, BS
Karoline Shellhause, BS

Congrats to all!