Danella M Hafeman, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Current Appointments

  • Director, Psychiatry Research Pathway

Areas of Expertise

  • Children & Adolescents
  • Mood Disorders
  • Anxiety, OCD & Trauma Disorders
Danella M Hafeman, MD, PhD
Expertise & Interests Selected Publications Education & Credentials Related News

Expertise & Interests

Research Interests

Bipolar disorders; Neuroimaging; Mindfulness

Clinical Interests

Bipolar disorders; Pediatric mood disorders; Transition-age youth

Education Interests

Research mentorship; Postdoctoral career development; Resident research mentorship

Selected Publications

  1. Hafeman DM, Feldman J, Mak J, Merranko J, Goldstein TR, Gratton C, Phillips ML, Birmaher B. Longitudinal stability of mood-related resting-state networks in youth with symptomatic bipolar-I/II disorder. Translational psychiatry. 15(1):187. 2025.
  2. Hafeman DM, Uher R, Merranko J, Zwicker A, Goldstein B, Goldstein TR, Axelson D, Monk K, Sakolsky D, Iyengar S, et al. Person-level contributions of bipolar polygenic risk score to the prediction of new-onset bipolar disorder in at-risk offspring. Journal of Affective Disorders. 368:359365. 2025.
  3. Hafeman DM, Ostroff N, Feldman J, Hickey MB, Phillips ML, Creswell D, Birmaher B, Goldstein TR. Mindfulness-based intervention to decrease mood lability in at-risk youth: Preliminary evidence for changes in resting state functional connectivity. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2020.
  4. Hafeman DM, Merranko J, Goldstein TR, Axelson D, Goldstein BI, Monk K, Hickey MB, Sakolsky D, Diler R, Iyengar S, Brent DA, Kupfer DJ, Kattan MW, Birmaher B. Assessment of a person-level risk calculator to predict new-onset bipolar spectrum disorder in youth at familial risk. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017.
  5. Hafeman DM, Merranko J, Axelson D, Goldstein BI, Goldstein T, Monk K, Hickey MB, Sakolsky D, Diler R, Iyengar S, Brent D, Kupfer D, Birmaher B. Toward the definition of a bipolar prodrome: Dimensional predictors of bipolar spectrum disorders in at-risk youths. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2016;173(7):695-704.
  6. Dickstein DP, Hafeman DM. Bipolar disorder in childhood and adolescence. In: Thapar A, Pine DS, Cortese S, Creswell C, Ford TJ, Leckman JF, Stringaris A, eds. Rutters Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, 7th Edition. Wiley; 2025.
  7. Carlson GA, Singh MK, Hafeman DM, Pataki CS. Early onset bipolar disorder. In: Boland R, Verduin ML, eds. Kaplan and Sadocks Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eleventh Edition. Wolters Kluwer; 2024.
  8. Hafeman DM, Spada M. Assessment, prognosis, and treatment of subthreshold mood symptoms. In: Singh MP, ed. Clinical Handbook for Pediatric Mood Disorders, APA Publishing. 2019.
  9. Hafeman DM, Birmaher B. The bipolar prodrome. In: Soares JC, Walss-Bass C, Brambilla P, eds. Bipolar Disorder Vulnerability: Elsevier; 2018.
  10. Keil MA, Westbrook C, Stephens JJ, Spada M, Hafeman D, Jacobson SL, Travis MJ, Gopalan P. Longitudinal outcomes of a resident academic administrator, clinician educator track. Acad Psychiatry. 2024.

Education & Credentials

Education & Training

Education
MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Education
PhD, Epidemiology, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Residency
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Fellowship
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Postdoctoral
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Selected Honors & Awards

  • Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Depression, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation
  • Outstanding Resident Award, National Institutes of Mental Health

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