Neuroscientist and psychiatrist is next VITALS speaker
Andrew Pieper, M.D., Ph.D., joins VITALS | Visionary Health Leadership in Action at noon, Thursday, Nov. 5, via Zoom.
Dr. Pieper, a board-certified psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is professor and Morley-Mather Chair in Neuropsychiatry for University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University. He also is the director of the UH Center for Brain Health Medicines.
VITALS is NEOMED's health leadership speaker series presented with University Hospitals.
CME credit is available.
About Dr. Pieper
Dr. Pieper is a board-certified psychiatrist and neuroscientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where he serves as professor and Morley Mather Chair in Neuropsychiatry. He also serves as psychiatrist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (VAMC), and as investigator in the University Hospitals Harrington Discovery Institute, where he is the director of the Center for Brain Health Medicines.
Dr. Pieper is devoted to patient care and basic science research applied to disease, most keenly focused on neurodegeneration. Clinically, he maintains an Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic at the VAMC. His goal is to understand and investigate human disorders in order to foster development of new neuroprotective strategies to support brain health. Dr. Pieper has received numerous honors, including the Staglin Family Rising Star Research Award from the International Mental Health Research Organization and elected membership to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
After graduating from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, Dr. Pieper earned his M.D. and Ph.D. (Neuroscience) degrees from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also conducted his medicine internship and psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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