Events

The Department of Psychiatry welcomes Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD from the University of California, San Francisco, for a Special Guest Lecture on December 5, 2025.

Sean Piantadosi, PhD, is a K99-funded postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Dr. Michael Bruchas’s lab. His research explores neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying affective behavior and their disruption in psychiatric illness. Trained in the Translational Neuroscience Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Piantadosi develops and applies advanced neurotechnologies to identify and manipulate therapeutic targets, integrating correlative and causal approaches to better understand mood disorders.

The Research Equity and Community Health (REACH) Health Equity Seminar Series welcomes Krithika Prakash, PhD, a T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry, as its featured speaker on December 18, 2025.

We hope you will join us for our next Meet the PI lecture on December 19, 2025 when we welcome Yanhua Huang, PhD as our featured speaker.

We're starting the new year on January 9, 2026 with a Clinical Grand Rounds focusing on the transition of research findings to active treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder.

Join Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Robert Hudak, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for this presentation and a discussion of the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.

The Research Equity and Community Health (REACH) Health Equity Seminar Series welcomes Mary Ganguli, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Neurology, Erin Jacobsen Lewis, MS, Research Operations Coordinator, and Heather Lucas, MPPM, Project Manager, from the University of Pittsburgh Dementia Epidemiology Program as its featured speakers on January 15, 2026.