Western Psychiatric Institute News

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• School police officer stays in touch with students - Tribune-Review
  posted on December 27, 2012 at 02:04:05 am
  School police officer stays in touch with studentsTribune-ReviewFor instance, when two people were killed at UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute in Oakland ...
• Pennsylvania in 2012: Sandusky, Sandy and shale - Yorkdispatch.com
  posted on December 25, 2012 at 04:25:41 pm
  Pennsylvania in 2012: Sandusky, Sandy and shaleYorkdispatch.comAuthorities said a mentally ill man, 30-year-old John Shick, opened fire shortly after entering the ...
• VIDEO: How to Survive an Active Shooter Event - Patch.com
  posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:06:13 am
  VIDEO: How to Survive an Active Shooter EventPatch.comWith active-shooter events like this past week's tragedy in Newtown, CT, and March's Western ...
• Should Lawmakers Re-examine Gun Laws in Wake of Connecticut Shooting? - Patch.com
  posted on December 18, 2012 at 11:18:08 am
  Should Lawmakers Re-examine Gun Laws in Wake of Connecticut Shooting?Patch.comLocally, two people died and seven people were injured in March after John Shick went on a ...
• tragedy reopens wounds in W.Pa. - Tribune-Review
  posted on December 17, 2012 at 05:05:39 am
  tragedy reopens wounds in W.Pa.Tribune-Review?I could feel their heartache,? said Schaab of Greensburg, whose son Michael, 25, was killed in March ...
• Reports: Western Psych needs substantial security upgrades
  posted on November 29, 2012 at 06:29:00 pm
  By Adam Brandolph, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic needs to make ...
• Textbook shooting case
  posted on November 23, 2012 at 06:33:00 am
  In his mind's eye, University of Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Dan Papale recently relived the chaos, stress, and deadly danger he and other Pitt officers ...
• David A. Axelson, M.D., receives AACAP Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for research in depression or suicide
  posted on October 26, 2012 at 04:00:00 am
  (_Elsevier_) The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is pleased to announce David A. Axelson, M.D, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Western Psychiatric ...
• People & Awards: Companies
  posted on June 29, 2012 at 08:56:00 am
  Health Care Seventeen of Pennsylvania’s innovative hospital programs were named winners of The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania 2012 Achievement Awards. In the Pittsburgh area, the several were honored. In the workplace category, The ...
• Oakland shooting revisited
  posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:21:00 pm
  Allegheny County and Pittsburgh officials met on Wednesday to review the deadly shooting spree at ...
• UPMC disputes Western Psych report
  posted on March 29, 2012 at 06:50:00 am
  UPMC pushed back against an investigation saying more could have been done in the case of the man who killed one worker and wounded several others at the Western Psychiatric Institute. District Attorney Stephen Zappala and Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate ...
• When Tragedy Strikes at Home: The Need to Change the Mental Health System
  posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:35:00 am
  On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, one of my mother’s worst nightmares came true. At Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) in Pittsburgh, Penn. -- one of the state's best ...
• Trial delayed after records reveal suspect had sought help
  posted on March 22, 2011 at 04:44:11 am
  Four days before police found a blood-spattered Terrence Andrews leaving his neighbor's apartment with her lifeless body inside, he had visited Western Psychiatric Institute and ...
• Murder trial postponed while document studied
  posted on March 21, 2011 at 05:46:52 pm
  A lawyer for a man accused of killing his Shadyside neighbor with a pair of scissors requested a last-minute delay in his trial ...
• Adding the Diagnosis of Temper Dysregulation Disorder to DSM-5:
  posted on December 7, 2010 at 05:10:24 am
  Do We Really Need It? Dr Axelson is associate professor of psychiatry and director of Child and Adolescent Bipolar ...
• Health calendar: 10/25/10
  posted on October 28, 2010 at 07:53:29 pm
  • The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is sponsoring "Tranference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline and ...
• New Pitt-Duke study taps into issues with picky eating
  posted on July 13, 2010 at 04:49:41 pm
  "(We're trying to find) an inflection point where an oddity becomes a disorder," said Marsha Marcus, a Pitt ...
• WPIC Receives Federal Stimulus Funding To Assess The Benefits Of Counseling With HIV Screening
  posted on March 18, 2010 at 11:16:21 am
  Does rapid HIV testing and counseling produce healthier results for those who test negative for the virus than testing alone? That's the question that will be studied by researchers at the Western ...
• Pitt med school appoints chief of psychiatry
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 10:51:44 pm
  The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has named an expert on schizophrenia and the brain as the ...

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