Introducing New Faculty Members Dr. Ball, Dr. Hensler, and Dr. McCathern
The Department of Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to three new clinical faculty members who join Pitt Psychiatry at the rank of assistant professor:
Morgan Ball, MD
Dr. Ball received her MD from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed psychiatry residency training at Marshall University. She then returned to South Carolina for a clinical fellowship in forensic psychiatry.
She comes to UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) with a specific interest in caring for adults with severe mood and psychotic disorders, and serves as an inpatient adult attending psychiatrist at WPH.
Christopher Hensler, MD
Dr. Hensler earned their MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and conducted research on neuroepigenetics of schizophrenia and molecular neurobiology of aging in the Pitt Physician-Scientist Training Program. Dr. Hensler completed residency training in general psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where they developed the first resident clinic in street psychiatry in the city of Chicago.
Dr. Hensler’s clinical focus is treatment for adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders, and homeless mental healthcare. They provide clinical care in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders (CADD) adult inpatient unit, as well as with the street psychiatry team.
Alexis McCathern, MD
Alexis McCathern earned her MD from Baylor College of Medicine, and completed psychiatry residency training in the combined general and child/adolescent track at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). Dr. McCathern participated in the Academic Administrator Clinician Educator Pathway, and completed the Department’s Concentration in Interventional Psychiatry.
Dr. McCathern’s clinical interests include child and adolescent psychiatry and transitional age youth. At WPH, she provides clinical care to young people through two child and adolescent intensive outpatient programs and through consults with UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. In addition, Dr. McCathern works with WPH’s adult outpatient clinic.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ball, Dr. Hensler, and Dr. McCathern to the faculty!