Department of Psychiatry

26^th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference

The "26^th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference”, scheduled to take place Friday, November 13, 2009 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the nation’s longest running scientific meeting devoted to exploring the latest research findings related to schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.  Each year, internationally recognized experts provide comprehensive reviews of advances in their areas and emphasize the clinical relevance of the research.  This year’s meeting will cover a range of topics, including electrical activity and oscillations in the brain and brain imaging research.  Furthermore, ways to get back decades of life lost in persons with schizophrenia using approaches to reduce medical co-morbidity such as reducing body weight will also be reviewed.  A patient and family perspective regarding patient centered medicine as it applies to people with severe mental illness will be discussed in a panel format. Presentations by the faculty awarded the 2009 Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference Award and the Gerard Hogarty Research Excellence Prize will also take place during the meeting.  For more information, please click here.