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Viveca A. Meyer, MD
Job Title
Psychiatrist, Pediatric Behavioral Health Consultation and Liaison Services, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
4117 Penn Ave., Suite Floor 3
Pittsburgh,
PA
15201
412-692-5100
Phone
412-692-5986
Fax
Email
meyerva@upmc.edu
Education and Training
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Medical School: |
1977-1980 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va. |
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Residency: |
1980-1981 Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio, Pediatric Internship |
Memberships
- 1982 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- 1982 Pittsburgh Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (PROCAP)
- 1993-2000 Secretary, PROCAP
- 2003-2006 Member, AACAP Liaison with Primary Care Committee
Board Certifications
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Certification by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Awards
- 1996 Mentorship Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Biography Summary
Dr. Meyer has considerable clinical, education/training and administrative experience in psychiatry, as well as involvement in research endeavors that have focused on affective disorder in children and adolescents. Clinical experience has included a range of general child and adolescent psychiatry, with more specific experience with consultation and liaison at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, where she is the senior faculty on an active inpatient service. She has extensive experience with assessing and treating patients with both medical illness and psychopathology, as well as with emergency psychiatry and affective disorders. She has been Medical Director of the Diagnostic and Emergency Center, and the Child and Adolescent Affective Disorders inpatient program. She is also a past training director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and was the first training director for the Triple Board Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She remains a very active member of the teaching and clinical faculty of the School of Medicine.
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