November 14, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Reimagining Psychiatric Services: Building Systems That Work

Wesley Sowers, MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Public Service Psychiatry, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

Mark Beuger, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

We hope you will join Drs. Wesley Sowers and Mark Beuger on November 14, 2025 for our next Clinical Grand Rounds which focuses on Reimagining Psychiatric Services: Building Systems That Work.

Wesley Sowers, MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and an expert in addiction medicine. He serves as the Director of the Center for Public Service Psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. In collaboration with state-wide participants of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Leadership Council, the Center is a proponent of recovery-oriented systems of care and the ideals of whole-person health.

Mark Beuger, MD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and is a member of the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital's Community Treatment Team, which offers outreach and community-based mental health services to individuals with serious and persistent mental illnesses.

Join us in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital auditorium or via Zoom using the following information:

Zoom Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98715499221
Passcode: 187997

For More Information. Please contact Shardai Key Ward at keysj4@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 Credits^TM. 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.