The Interventional Psychiatry Workgroup invites you to register today for the 2025 Interventional Psychiatry Showcase, an event highlighting the cutting-edge research by Department investigators on a range of novel interventions in Psychiatry. This year’s Showcase will focus on two techniques - Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS), and how these therapeutic interventions are being used to increase our understanding and effectively treat a range of psychiatric disorders. The Showcase offers plenty of opportunities for networking and to engage in the discussion with Department experts.

View the program schedule here.

~  Sign up for one of the four lunchtime roundtable discussions facilitated by Department of Psychiatry experts to learn about new research directions in interventional psychiatry and to share your own interests and ideas.

~  Presentations on the latest cutting-edge research by experts in the field and early career researchers including:

• Meryl Butters, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Henry Chase, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Brian Coffman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Ahmadreza Keihani, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of California/San Francisco
• Mary Phillips, MD, MD (CANTAB), Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science, and Bioengineering, and Pittsburgh Foundation-Emmerling Endowed Chair in Psychotic Disorders, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Douglas Teixeira Leffa, MD, PhD, Psychiatry Research Pathway Resident, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

~ Panel Discussions and Q&A Sessions moderated by Deepak Sarpal, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Erika Forbes, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Registration is required to attend the Interventional Psychiatry Showcase. Registrants received an email on February 27th confirming their attendance and roundtable assignment if they requested one. 

For more information. Please contact Jeanie Knox at knoxjv@upmc.edu.