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WPIC Adolescent Acute Partial Hospitalization Program Selectedfor Beckwith Institute Innovation Award The Beckwith Institute?s Frontline Innovation Program has awarded funding to Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic's (WPIC) Adolescent Acute Partial Hospitalization Program (AAPHP) to support their Virtual School Consultation initiative. The Virtual School Consultation initiative aims to improve the transition...

Mark Your Calendars! Join us at the University Club in Oakland on Thursday, June 18, 2015 when the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry hosts the Fifteenth Annual Research Day. This full-day event showcases the research accomplishments of our Department and provides plenty of opportunities to networking and sharing your interests. Research Day features a number of activities including a poster session...

Anne Penner, MD Selected for George Ginsberg Fellowship Award by the American Association for Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training Dr. Anne Penner has been selected as a winner of the 2015 George Ginsberg MD Fellowship by the American Association for Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT). Selection for the fellowship is highly competitive. The Fellowship acknowledges the excellence and the...

ACGME Selects Cristin McDermott, MD for Membership on the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has appointed Cristin McDermott, MD as a Resident Member of the organization?s Review Committee for Psychiatry. Dr. McDermott is a PGY3 resident in the Triple Board Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC) and a member of the...

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC) has been selected to receive the Innovation Award from the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania. This is the third achievement award presented to WPIC by the Association for its innovative programs. Judges selected WPIC as the winner of the Innovation Award from 100 entries received by the Association for its initiative to increase Patient and...

WPIC Ranked in the Top 10 Nationally for Psychiatric Care and Residency Training U.S. News & World Report has listed Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC) as one of the Top 10 hospitals in the country in terms of the quality of its clinical services and of its psychiatric residency training program. In its most recent Best Hospitals Honor Roll, U.S. News & World Report ranked WPIC among the Top 10...