Please join us for a Distinguished Scientist Lecture by Cynthia Rogers, MD, the Blanche F Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine, on April 17, 2026.
Dr. Rogers' program of research focuses on improving the psychiatric outcomes of at-risk infants through understanding the underlying neural mechanisms of social-emotional development and psychopathology and the impact of adverse exposures and resilience factors on these mechanisms. She serves as the co-director of the multidisciplinary Washington University Neonatal Development Research group which conducts multi-modal neonatal neuroimaging and longitudinal follow-up studies with high retention rates of sociodemographically-diverse cohorts with elevated rates of exposure to adversity. Dr. Rogers' work also involves studying the role of prenatal exposures to poverty, stress, and drugs of misuse as well as preterm birth on neonatal brain development and subsequent child developmental outcomes.
Join us in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital auditorium for this in-person event.
For more information. Please contact Shardai Key-Ward at wardsj4@upmc.edu.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS. The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours. In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference. WPH is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPH maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist. These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal. For more information, call (412) 204-9085.
