The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry an Autism Center of Excellence (P50) grant to fund “Mental Health in Autistic Adults: An RDoC Approach.” The University of Pittsburgh Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) will be led by Carla Mazefsky, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Clinical and Translational Science). The University of Pittsburgh...

We are delighted to announce that Priya Gopalan, MD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology), has received the 2022 Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) Roberts Award for Mentorship, which recognizes psychiatric educators who have supported medical students, residents, and early-career psychiatry faculty in their development as educators and who have, by their...

We are delighted to announce that Jessica Stephens, DO (PGY4) has received the 2022 Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) Resident Psychiatric Educator Award, and has been selected to serve a two-year term as the John E. Showalter, MD, Resident Member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Council. Dr. Stephens earned her DO at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. In...

Please join us in welcoming the 2022-2023 Clinical Psychology Intern Class! The American Psychological Association-accredited program is co-led by Tina Goldstein, PhD, and Michele Levine, PhD. This yearlong experience adheres to a clinical science model of training and professional development, emphasizing research and clinical training integration, as well as a commitment to empirically informed approaches to...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry a Program Project Grant (PPG) renewal for “The role of astrogliosis in aging and the pathological and clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease.” The Alzheimer’s PPG will be led by a multiple principal investigator team including Ann Cohen, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), Howard Aizenstein, MD, PhD...

We are delighted to announce that Meredith Spada, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), has received the 2022 Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) Early Career Development Award, which recognizes promising early-career faculty and provides them with resources to further their academic teaching careers. Dr. Spada earned her MD from Penn State University. She completed residency training in adult psychiatry at...

An international consortium of scientists from fields including psychiatry, genetics, genomics, pediatrics, and statistics have published a study in Nature Genetics reporting the discovery of 185 genes significantly associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and more than 300 genes associated with autism or other types of developmental delay. The consortium evaluated genetic data from a cohort of more than 63...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded Pitt Psychiatry a Center of Excellence (P50) grant renewal for Enhancing Triage and Utilization for Depression and Emergent Suicidality (ETUDES), led by David Brent, MD (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Science, and Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies). The Center is co-led by Bruce Rollman, MD...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Piper Carroll, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Carroll earned her MD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2017. After completing general psychiatry residency training at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), Dr. Carroll undertook fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry and community psychiatry at WPH. During residency...

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members: Laurie Compère, PhD (Research Instructor in Psychiatry) Dr. Compère earned her PhD in Psychology and completed two years of postdoctoral research training at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. In 2018, she joined the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral scholar under the mentorship of Kymberly Young, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry)...