Psychiatry Advances

Brant P. Hasler,  PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. He is the PI of multiple  NH research grants. These investigate changing adolescent sleep patterns, late bedtimes, early arising and consequent increased risk for substance abuse. Dr. Hasler is both a researcher and a clinician/mentor. Dr. Hasler’s “three-phase”  research investigations involve home/school physiological monitoring, sleep studies as well as clinical interventions to change these patterns.

Dennis Daley PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and former Chief Addiction Medicine Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. For more than 30 years Dr. Daley provided clinical services to persons with SUDs. His teaching and recovery materials are used throughout the US. This Podcast emphasizes that families of persons with SUDs are harmed and in need of psychological assistance because of their loved one’s serious problems. Family assistance strongly  promotes and retains SUD patients in treatment.

Our Guest , Abigail Schlesinger MD. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She is the Chief , Behavioral Science Division. UPMC Children’s Hospital, also the Medical Director of TiPS (Telephonic Psychiatric Services). These expanding ambulatory integrated services are proximately provided within multi-group Pediatrician’s offices,  presently,  with TiPS,  including  27 Pa. counties. Dr Schlesinger has devoted her career to improving how we talk to patients, assist other physicians and patients’  families.

“Resolve” is a governmentally funded free-standing, multi-purpose Crisis Center serving all persons in Allegheny County – The Center clients include the mentally ill and any persons/families under great stress - whatever their pressing concerns. 

My guest is Associate Professor of Psychiatry Jack Rozel MD, President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry.

Dr. Rozel is an expert on gun violence and the Medical Director for “Resolve”.

Maintaining the mental health of perinatal women is of great importance personally and for all of use. In this episode, we speak with Eydie Moses-Kolko, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and  expert in women’s health and perinatal psychiatry. The rationale and approach of partial outpatient intensive treatment for such women is reviewed along with other integrated treatment approaches. Also discussed are core principles of collaboration in program planning.

Gina Perez, MD, is the Associate Chief of the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Behavioral Network. This includes Telepsychiatry not only for UPMC sites, but also for mental and behavioral health centers throughout Western PA including especially rural areas (16 locations/11 counties).

This podcast episode focuses on this rapidly growing treatment modality, not only for individual treatment and evaluation, but also for psychiatric in-patient units and over time emergency rooms. Care standards are being delineated.

Eva Szigethy, MD/PHD is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director of Behavioral Health within the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Medical Home. Dr. Szigethy focuses her clinical and research interests on integrated medical-psychiatric care models for patients with chronic disease including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). She is the PI of a PCORI grant on the specialty medical home, a likely future model of patient care.

Antoine Douaihy, MD, is professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and senior academic director of Addiction Medical Services at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Medical marijuana is now approved for distribution in Pennsylvania, but it’s absent of controlled clinical trials. Marijuana use requires careful monitoring, including marijuana growing, physician recommendations, and distribution. This episode explores controversies about today’s prescription of medical marijuana.

Jordan Karp, MD, is professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Late-life depression may be brain “toxic.” This episode discusses geriatric depression and ongoing multi-site PCORI/NIH geriatric research about a treatment-resistant depression (OPTIMUM/OPTIMUM-Neuro) trial. This comparative effectiveness research includes patients’ cognition and brain imaging. 

Brooke S. G. Molina, PhD, is a professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. She directs clinical research at the ADHD Across the Lifespan Program. This long-time longitudinal clinical research involves youth/adolescents and adult patients. This episode presents information on lifetime course prediction, drug misuse, and primary care-based strategies for the management of ADHD.