Pittsburgh Chapter
For more information regarding the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society, please call 866-659-8629, or send an email message to pittpsych@papsych.org. Our Executive Director is Jennifer Redmond.
Upcoming Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society Events
All Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society members are invited and welcome to attend the events listed below. Please register through the "online registration" links provided, or call 1-866-659-8629 or 717-558-7750 with any questions.
Registration is now open!
Come join us as Ann Thomas from the APA presents, “Surviving Maintenance of Certification.” The meeting will be held in the Wales Conference Room on the main floor of the hotel.
Overview:
This program will provide an overview of current maintenance of certification requirements for psychiatrists, as well as information about how APA members can keep up with these requirements.
Objectives:
Parking:
There is free parking in the parking lot behind the hotel. There also are parking lots across the street from the Cambria Hotel and at the PPG Paints Arena parking garage.
Come join us as Ann Thomas from the APA presents, “Surviving Maintenance of Certification.” The meeting will be held in the Wales Conference Room on the main floor of the hotel.
Overview:
This program will provide an overview of current maintenance of certification requirements for psychiatrists, as well as information about how APA members can keep up with these requirements.
Objectives:
- Describe the current requirements of MOC for the ABPN, along with the ABPN’s relationship to ABMS and APA
- Identify available activities that meet MOC requirements for psychiatrists
Parking:
There is free parking in the parking lot behind the hotel. There also are parking lots across the street from the Cambria Hotel and at the PPG Paints Arena parking garage.
Exhibitor registration is now available!
This casual evening is spent with members from Pittsburgh and Western, PA. Residents, Medical Students, and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners present their research posters while other attendees mingle with exhibitors and colleagues. Join us for this annual meeting to spend an evening with our membership.
This casual evening is spent with members from Pittsburgh and Western, PA. Residents, Medical Students, and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners present their research posters while other attendees mingle with exhibitors and colleagues. Join us for this annual meeting to spend an evening with our membership.
Poster Competition Information
All residents, medical students, and nurse practitioner students are invited to participate.
Posters may address basic or clinical research, interesting clinical cases, novel educational programs, or any other topic that might be of interest to your colleagues.
An abstract of no more than 300 words is required. The deadline for registration is August 3, 2018.
Questions: Contact Judy Clapp, Meeting Manager, at 866-659-8629 or pittpsych@papsych.org.
All residents, medical students, and nurse practitioner students are invited to participate.
Posters may address basic or clinical research, interesting clinical cases, novel educational programs, or any other topic that might be of interest to your colleagues.
An abstract of no more than 300 words is required. The deadline for registration is August 3, 2018.
Questions: Contact Judy Clapp, Meeting Manager, at 866-659-8629 or pittpsych@papsych.org.
Past Meetings
Annual Business Meeting
PPS held its annual business meeting on June 18, 2018. Amit Chopra, MD, FAPA was formally installed as Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society's President. Pictured below standing in for Immediate Past President Dan M. Udrea, MD is Marc E. Garfinkel, MD, DLFAPA for the official passing of the gavel to Dr. Chopra.
PPS held its annual business meeting on June 18, 2018. Amit Chopra, MD, FAPA was formally installed as Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society's President. Pictured below standing in for Immediate Past President Dan M. Udrea, MD is Marc E. Garfinkel, MD, DLFAPA for the official passing of the gavel to Dr. Chopra.
Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society
2018-2019 Executive Committee and Officers
President
Amit Chopra, MD, FAPA
President-Elect and Delegate to the PaPS Council
Maher O. Ayyash, MD, FAPA, FAPM
Treasurer
Amita D. Mehta, MD
Secretary
Mark A. Matta, DO
Chapter Councilors
Melina Spyridaki-Dodd, MD (Delegate to PaPS Council)
Manuel David Reich, DO
Immediate Past President
Dan M. Udrea, MD
Resident Representatives
VACANT
2018-2019 Executive Committee and Officers
President
Amit Chopra, MD, FAPA
President-Elect and Delegate to the PaPS Council
Maher O. Ayyash, MD, FAPA, FAPM
Treasurer
Amita D. Mehta, MD
Secretary
Mark A. Matta, DO
Chapter Councilors
Melina Spyridaki-Dodd, MD (Delegate to PaPS Council)
Manuel David Reich, DO
Immediate Past President
Dan M. Udrea, MD
Resident Representatives
VACANT
Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society Benefits of Membership
For more information on becoming a member of the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, please send an email to pittpsych@papsych.org or call 1-800-422-2900.
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society members practicing in the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area have dues-free access to the additional benefits of the Pittsburgh chapter, which provides:
For more information on becoming a member of the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, please send an email to pittpsych@papsych.org or call 1-800-422-2900.
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society members practicing in the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area have dues-free access to the additional benefits of the Pittsburgh chapter, which provides:
- Dinner meetings on a wide variety of psychiatric issues.
- Governing council meetings.
- Social and other meetings.
- An opportunity to work with committees.
- Opportunities for psychiatric residents, including representation on the Society's Council, invitations to all CME dinner meetings, and a Residents' Night program.
- Opportunities to socialize and interact with colleagues.
- A chapter page in the Pennsylvania Psychiatrist with information about members, local psychiatric issues, and chapter activities.
- Representation of local issues through its representatives to the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society's governing council.
