Mark your calendars and join us for the first Researchers on the Rise lectures of the academic year featuring two of our talented early-career investigators, Traci Kennedy, PhD and Andrea Weinstein, PhD.
Dr. Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her research involves understanding and mitigating momentary risk for real-world alcohol use and problems, with a focus on inhibitory control and impulsivity among young people with ADHD. Through an NIAAA-supported K23 Award, she is developing and testing a novel mHealth intervention that targets momentary inhibitory control to reduce problematic alcohol use among young adults with ADHD. Clinically, Dr. Kennedy provides cognitive-behavioral therapy to young adults with ADHD.
Dr. Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, graduated from the joint Clinical and Biological Health Psychology program at the University of Pittsburgh, also earning a certificate from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Weinstein's research interests include cognitive aging and cognitive dysfunction in individuals diagnosed with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Her research interests include health behaviors in older adults using cognitive neuroscience techniques. In particular, she is interested in behavioral interventions for cognitive decline and how to identify ways to help people initiate and maintain healthy behaviors.
Lectures will be offered as a hybrid event with the opportunity for a limited number of in-person attendees in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium while the lecture is streamed via Zoom to individuals who wish to attend remotely.
To attend via Zoom, click on this link and enter the following information:
Meeting ID: 978 6795 1318
Passcode: 745189
For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick at patrickfm@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.
