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July 6

Mapping Black Adolescents’ Experiences of Stress and Its Relation to Marijuana Use in Activity Spaces Using Ecological Momentary Assessment with Mobile Technology

Jaime Booth, MSW, PhD Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh
July 13

Modeling Mechanisms of Psychosis Risk: Effects of Maternal Immune Activation on Primate Brain Development

Cameron Carter, MD Distinguished Professor & C. Bryan Cameron Presidential Chair in Neuroscience, University of California, Davis
September 9

Molecular and Cellular Adaptations in Disease in Postmortem Tissue and Animal Models

Keri Martinowich, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behaviorial Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
October 7

Investigating Protein State and Location in Schizophrenia

Matthew MacDonald, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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primary faculty members. Of the 18 new faculty members hired in 2021, 22% are individuals who are under-represented in medicine.

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Our residency training program is ranked sixth in the nation for research output by Doximity.

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million awarded in research funding in university fiscal year 2020-2021.

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